Hope Has Passed Away
Llewyn Davis is a perennial loser. The threadbare folk singer who trudges
through the slushy streets of the Coen Brothers’ latest cinematic triumph is
accustomed to failure. In the bitterly cold New York
Andrew Wyatt
Andrew Wyatt is a St. Louis-based writer on film art. He is the film critic for Look/Listen at St. Louis Magazine, and a member of the Online Film Critics Society and St. Louis Film Critics Associatio
On Bullying & Female Adolescent Fears in “Carrie”
Twenty-first century horror cinema has been dispiritingly timid (and even
retrograde) when it comes to matters of gender. A few welcome and eccentric
features have tackled feminist concerns head-on, among them Ginger Snaps,
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Indian director Mira Nair’s new feature, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, is a
poignant and vivid tale about what can occur when the process of American
enculturation goes sour. There is, of course, no
The Last Exorcism
Romanian writer-director Christian Mungiu’s superb new feature, Beyond the Hills
, is an astonishingly sneaky work of religious and cultural criticism, nearly as
duplicitous as Old Pitch himself. Its potency relies to a