This edition of the Classics Shelf reviews the 2013 Berlin Film Festival where Child's Pose won the Golden Bear in a modest competition.
Our Film and Performing Arts Editor counts down what he thinks are the 25 best films of 2013.
If the riveting old school styled thriller Side Effects truly manages to be the last film from acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh, he picked a hell of a film to go out on. It might not be the most ostentatious film in the director’s canon, but there haven’t been many thrillers this well constructed and efficient since the world lost Alfred Hitchcock.