Tag: Artist
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Best Movies Like Babylon That Skewer Hollywood
Babylon has arrived at last, carried into theaters on a magic cloud of stardust and cocaine. The latest from Damien Chazelle, Babylon promises to be a different vision of Hollywood in the Silent era: a dizzy, debauched free-for-all populated by degenerates and mad geniuses, a lawless frontier town in the days before talkies came along,…
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Why ‘1917’ Is the Last Film That Should Be Winning the Oscar (Column)
There’s a feeling I always get at the end of a long Oscar night when the movie that won isn’t a terrible choice, but it’s the safe, blah, Mor predictable choice, the one that conforms to the dullest conventional wisdom about the kinds of movies Oscar voters prefer, because in the core of their being…