My Favorite Albums of 2012

Given the relative dearth of music I've listened to this year, I probably have no right fashioning a Best of 2012 list. I've been mu...

L'Enfance Nue (1968) A Film by Maurice Pialat

As portraits of disaffected youth go, Maurice Pialat's L'Enfance Nue makes François Truffaut's already restrained The 4...

The Best Films of 2012

Between attending the Cannes Film Festival and the AFI Fest, acquainting myself with the ridiculously vibrant filmgoing culture of Los Angel...

My Favorite Discoveries of 2012

In anticipation of my Best of 2012 list, which will be up in the next few days after I catch up with some of those lingering blind spots, I ...

Bernie (2012) A Film by Richard Linklater

"You cannot have grief tragically becoming comedy," warns Bernie Tiede (Jack Black), a plump, mustachioed mortician while giving a...

Lincoln (2012) A Film by Steven Spielberg

With Lincoln , Steven Spielberg has managed to supply meaty human drama, unexpected revelations, and even suspense to a historical political...

Anna Karenina (2012) A Film by Joe Wright

The world of Anna Karenina as seen by Joe Wright apparently interpreting Leo Tolstoy is expressed as a large, seemingly expanding and contr...