Bong Joon-ho, creator of The Host and Snowpiercer, bypasses theatrical exhibition for Netflix.
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The longest night of the year, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this weekl’s issue
Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth is a great movie about movie people
The Italian director’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning The Great Beauty considers the problems of creative people.
Will the real Brian Wilson please stand up, plus the rest of this week’s new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
Love & Mercy is twice the Brian Wilson, but not the whole story
Is it possible for any movie to get the Beach Boy’s story right?
Cameron Crowe goes Hawaiian, plus the rest of this week’s new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
12 Years a Slave: Mighty white of you
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave tells of a free northerner taken into bondage.
Prisoners: A mazelike thriller with torture at its core
Art-house director Denis Villeneuve directs a mazelike thriller with torture at its core.
Our enormous film-festival package, and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
Coming not so soon: The Master
Paul Thomas Anderson’s take on the Church of Scientology, which previewed at the Music Box Thursday night
A.O. Scott on Holocaust movies
The New York Times critic appears this weekend at KAM Isaiah Israel in Hyde Park. Also this week: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “Tokyo Sonata” opens at Music Box; So Yong Kim’s “Treeless Mountain” closes the Asian American Showcase; and Kelly Reichardt’s “Wendy and Lucy” makes a curtain call at Facets.
Pooper at the party
Wherein our Reader critics decide to celebrate the Oscars–so who invited this guy?