The Life Ahead Review: Loren’s Timeless Grace
Loren gives a performance of great maturity, depth, wisdom, and grace.
Oscars
Awards Shelf: What Could Be Canada’s Oscar Submission?
Could Deepa, Nadia, or Maria have a date with Oscar?
Hillbilly Elegy Trailer: Glenn Close Has the Oscar in Sight
Glenn Close and Amy Adams star in Ron Howard's new film.
TIFF 2020: Night of the Kings Review
Canadian co-pro is a lean tale masterfully told.
Every TIFF People’s Choice Award Winner Ranked: A Festival of Festivals
The writers at That Shelf pick the best People's Choice Award winners in the history of the Toronto International Film Festival.
The Criterion Shelf: Marriage Stories
Criterion has put together a collection of marital tales, most of which aren’t going to inspire you to jump to propose any time soon: the ones who stay together are miserable (or, in one case, possibly a fantasy), those who part do so in a morass of bigamy, infidelity and acrimony.
Cannes Palme d’Or Winners: Ranking the 21 Best of the Fest
With the 73rd Cannes Film Festival postponed due to COVID-19, our team celebrates the legacy and influence of the world's most prestigious festival.
Hollywood Review: Ryan Murphy’s Revisionist History Dazzles
Ryan Murphy's new Netflix series is an insider's buffet of film geek references, historical revisionism, and cheesy idealism.
The Criterion Shelf: Four Times Three
Superstition tells us that bad things come in threes, but so do some good things, like when the Criterion Channel wants to highlight the essential works necessary to get to know a filmmaker by posting a collection of three films.
The Criterion Shelf: Starring Burt Lancaster
A tall, broud-shouldered lug with a swindler’s smile, equal parts intellectual and corporeal, Burt Lancaster was a legend by the time of his death in 1994, and Bil Antoniou ranks fifteen of his films featured on the Criterion Channel.
comPOSERS Special Episode: Breaking News for February!
On the second-ever comPOSERS breaking news, we talk Academy Award results, new film score assignments, Alan Menken's Oscar desperation, and...Dutch dinosaurs?
Picking a Winner: Getting Animated for the 2020 Oscars
What movie will take home the Oscar for Best Animated Feature at tonight's Academy Awards? Courtney Small breaks down the category and makes the case for each film!
comPOSERS Special Episode: 2020 Academy Awards
The gang discusses the films nominated for Best Score
CONTEST: Win PARASITE on Blu-ray!
To celebrate the release of Parasite on Blu-ray and DVD, we're offering our readers the chance to win a copy!
Shelf Help: Which Best Picture Was Actually That Year’s Best Picture?
For the past 92 years, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences claim to have chosen the best film of the year. Not the most popular film or the most innovative: the best. We all know that such a subjective declaration is, by design, highly flawed. While we could spend our lives detailing the […]
