Opinion
2013 TCM Classic Film Festival: Dispatch #2
The TCM Classic Film Festival wrapped up last weekend and, if I do say, it was one of the best moviegoing events I’ve ever attended. How liberating it is to enjoy...
2013 TCM Classic Film Festival: Dispatch #1
Hello from Hollywood. We’re a day and a half into this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival and I’ve been able to catch three movies so far — perhaps not as...
2013 TCM Classic Film Festival: Preview
The fourth annual TCM Classic Film Festival kicks off tonight in Hollywood and, despite a stellar lineup of old films on brand-new DCP restorations and glistening...
SDLFF 2013: Dispatch #3 — “¡Atraco!” and “Post Tenebras Lux”
As the San Diego Latino Film Festival enters its final weekend, there’s still plenty of good stuff left to see (I have five selections slated for today and tomorrow)....
SDLFF 2013: Dispatch #2 — “The Body” and “Nostalgia for the Light”
Three days into this year’s San Diego Latino Film Festival, I’m still very much enjoying myself. Festival fatigue—that inevitable wave of exhaustion one gets...
SDLFF 2013: Dispatch #1 — “De jueves a domingo” and “La sirga”
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t envious of fellow film bloggers who are reporting from South by Southwest in Austin, Texas this week—I haven’t been back...
Our Oscar Picks and Predictions
Rest assured: this is the only Oscar predictions post you’ll see on Critic Speak all year. While the rest of the Internet film community becomes obsessed with...
James Frazier’s Top 10 Films of 2012
Honorable Mentions: “Argo” – Ben Affleck continues his career resurgence in front of and behind the camera with the year’s best crowd-pleaser....
Danny Baldwin’s Top 10 Films of 2012
Despite a lackluster crop of summer blockbusters—“The Dark Knight Rises,” in particular, was a colossal disappointment—2012 turned out to be a very good...
NYFF Review: “Flight”
Historically, Robert Zemeckis’ dramas have worked by harnessing their thick characterizations and exaggerated situations to unabashedly play to the audience’s...