Jeffrey Overstreet
Good Letters
Heartbreaking Couscous
The French filmmaker Claude Berri made some remarkable films during his long career. He directed two of my favorites—Jean de…
Eight Questions about The Arts and Faith: Top 100 Films
Do you hear that buzzing sound? That’s the chatter that serves as prologue to the Academy Awards. With the 2010…
The Wolfman and Breaking News
[Caution: This article on The Wolfman contains significant plot spoilers.] I’ve just seen The Wolfman, Hollywood’s 2010 treatment of the…
The Wolfman and Breaking News
[Caution: This article on The Wolfman contains significant plot spoilers.] I’ve just seen The Wolfman, Hollywood’s 2010 treatment of the…
Hell, Noun
I’ve just seen a hell of a film. Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective—hailed as the latest masterpiece of the Romanian New…
Accept the Mystery
There’s an envelope full of cash on Larry Gopnik’s desk. He didn’t put it there. But he can guess who…
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+ “A World Equal to Our Hopes”
+ “Being Charlie Kaufman”
+ “Worth Something” (June 2009)
+ “Neil Gaiman’s Girls, Part 1” (March 2009)
+ Neil Gaimans’s Girls, Part 2” (March 2009)
+ “Blood, Sweat, and Tears in Munyurangabo” (June 2009)
+ “Learning to Fly With Karl Frederickson” (July 2009)
+ “What Lies Beneath Lorna’s Silence” (August 2009)
+ “Séraphine: Standing Ajar” (September 2009)
+ “The Inglourious Dilemma, Volume One” (October 2009)
+ “The Inglourious Dilemma, Volume Two” (October 2009)
+ “Why the Wild Things Are” (November 2009)
+ “More Nightmares Before Christmas“ (December 2009)
+ “Dumping Out the Toybox” (December 2009)
+ “Strongest Impressions: Memorable Movies of 2009”—Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 (January 2010)
+ “Jarmusch 102: The Limits of Control” (April 2010)
+ “For the Love of Lost Dogs” (May 2010)
+ “Stalking the Maker of Stalker, Part 1” (May 2010)
+ “Stalking the Maker of Stalker, Part 2” (May 2010)
+ “Inception, Part 1: Mind Over What Matters” (July 2010)
+ “Inception, Part 2: The Long Road Home” (July 2010)
+ “A Week (of Movies) Can Change a Life” (August 2010)
+ “Inception, Part 1: Mind Over What Matters” (July 2010)
+ “Inception, Part 2: The Long Road Home” (July 2010)
+ “The Actor in Question” (September 2010)
+ “Maladjusted” (March 2011)
+ “Jane Eyre and the Beast” (March 2011)
+ “The Hobbit on Steroids” (2012)
+ “Learning to Read a Dance (in 3D!)“ (February 2012)
+ “All of It Was Music—Pete Horner’s World of Sound, Part 2” (March 2012)
+ “First Position and the Competition Crucible” (June 2012)
+ “Moonrise Kingdom and the Divine Symphony” (July 2012)
+ “Why I Abandoned Compliance” (September 2012)
+ “Holy Motors’ Motor Skills” (November 2012)
+ “A Tale of Two Rivers” (October 2012)
+ “Wrestling the Master” (October 2012)
+ “The Boy Who Believed in Airplanes” (January 2013)