Alissa Wilkinson

What do you think about the Academy’s decision this week to have ten, not five nominees for Best Picture?

Away We Go: it might not be for you, but maybe it should be.

Why is it so hard to watch war movies?

Oliver Assayas’s exquisite new film, Summer Hours, is a sort of fable about heritage and generations, a longing look backward that has both caution and affection for the future. In a series of extended vignettes of a family wrestling with the implications of their inheritance, Assayas powerfully yet subtly explores the things that linger in […]

Objectified is about your daily life, full of contact with mass-produced objects.

Atom Egoyan’s new film boasts interesting questions and high-concept storytelling, but it never quite gels.

The New York Observer has published their list of most anticipated summer films. A couple of those (Away We Go, Public Enemies) are on my list, too. And, obviously, one they missed: Pixar’s Up, which opens May 29 in the States. (Really, Observer? The Ugly Truth but not Up?) What are your most anticipated films […]

So where are the sane artists in the movies?

The lineup for the 2009 Festival de Cannes was released today. Many notable entries here, but I know I and at least one other Filmwell critic have been rejoicing that Pixar’s Up is opening the festival – the first animated film to ever do so. Other fabulously notable directors with work at Cannes will be […]