Can anybody explain why there are so many Indian films on the list that haven't had American distribution?

WHY? WHAT IS THE POINT? Seriously, fuck everything.

He did not. Did he? That's pathetic.

A to the Men.

You'll hear it from me for sure. And I'm a big fan of the movie up until that point. But Spielberg's always had a hard time with endings, at least recently. Both Munich and Lincoln should have ended at least two scenes before their actual endings (Munich with Bana coming home, Lincoln with him walking down the hall.)…

A friend of mine once said it best: Schindler's List isn't "about" the Holocaust; it's about the mystery of human goodness. If you want to see a movie that's "about" the Holocaust, watch Shoah. If you want to see a movie where we learn the emotions that the Holocaust stirred in the people who lived through it, watch…

I think Kael was at her best when focused on acting. Her knowledge of directing and writing wasn't very strong, as evidenced whenever she had to review a movie with a strong directorial presence at hand (anything by Lean, Bergman or Tarkovsky.) When she responded to something she loved, at least, from my POV, it was…

The Best Years of Our Lives is one of the great films of all time, IMO. It tows such a fine line between becoming sentimental and restraining its powerful emotions, and that balancing act makes me sob every time I watch it.

What's most disappointing about Schickel as a critic is that he's unwilling to engage with more challenging works of art. I always hated reading his pieces in Time where he'd say the worst movie of the year was something like Moulin Rouge, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (anything by Charlie Kaufman for that…