This is a category that significantly favors best picture nominees. The post Oscar 2025 Winner Predictions: Visual Effects appeared first on Slant Magazine.
Back in 2009 we were treated to one of the best films ever made about autism, and it was, surprise surprise, an animated puppet feature. That was Mary and Max, directed by Adam Elliot, who had previously won an Academy...
The 2025 Academy Awards take place on Sunday, March 2, and as always, 15 short films compete across 3 categories—animation, documentary, and live action—for the golden statuette in their respective areas. Every year, I watch all of them and then...
The Blue Trail, the lively new film from Gabriel Mascaro, takes its name from the secretions of a mythical snail. Azure and oozing, the substance, when dropped on the iris, is rumored to grant a vision of things to come....
After watching Zodiac Killer Project, it’ll be hard to view any true-crime mystery documentary the same way again. But if there’s one filmmaker who could pull it off, it’s Errol Morris. Just a few months after this last documentary Separated,...
The film is an empowering narrative of one woman who refuses to see age as a ceiling. The post ‘The Blue Trail’ Review: In Gabriel Mascaro’s Vivid Road Movie, It’s No Country for Old Women appeared first on Slant Magazine.
Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw, Vicky Krieps, Vincent Perez, and Patsy Ferran star in director Rebecca Lenkiewicz's film about a daughter who uncovers secrets about both her lover and her mother. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
The film is a startling vision of two eras shaped in literal and cultural ways by Black people. The post ‘Compensation’ Review: A Century-Spanning Celebration of Black Self-Expression appeared first on Slant Magazine.