Among big-ticket Oscar contenders, the critic’s heart will always be with the overlooked gem.
Tom Carson
Tom Carson won two National Magazine Awards during his stint as Esquire’s “Screen” columnist and has been nominated twice more as GQ’s movie reviewer. Formerly a staff writer at LA Weekly and The Village Voice, he is the author of Gilligan’s Wake (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2003) and Daisy Buchanan’s Daughter.
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All Quiet on the Hurricane Front
Riding out Isaac in the Big Easy
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Norman Mailer Aims for Auteur … and Falls Way Short
Criterion Collection has released the famed author’s not-so-famed entries into the film canon.
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Kubrick’s Vietnam, 25 Years Later
Full Metal Jacket—as well as the rest of the director’s canon—still fails to impress, even after a quarter-century intermission.
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Ricky Bobby Goes to Washington
Don’t watch The Campaign with expectations of high sophistication and deft explanation of political issues.
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The Long Arc of Gore Vidal
The prolific man of letters spent the last decades of his life tarnishing his own reputation—but what a reputation it was.
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The Incongruous Olympics
Will the Olympics be a break from Europe and England’s problems, or make them more vivid?
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A Dark Knight for Romney?
Don’t believe Limbaugh—the most recent Batman movie is an epic for the 1%
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Europe on Five Characters a Day
Woody Allen’s latest travelogue is sprightlier than you’d expect.
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Pixar’s Take on Kafka
Brave tackles the Scottish countryside and family tensions in a poignant—if slightly by-the-books—way.