Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Pre-2018 Film Reviews
Happiness
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies (1998)
- Excerpt: Masterfully manipulative, totally assured in its execution, and totally ruthless in its worldview.
Category Archives: Brought to You by the OFCS
OFCS Presents: 24th Annual Awards for 2020
The Online Film Critics Society Announces Winners for Its 24th Annual Film Awards
AND THE WINNERS ARE …
The Online Film Critics Society Names Its Top Top Ten List of 2020
For Immediate Release
January 25, 2021 UPDATED with list of winners and special awards
January 19, 2021 with list of nominees
LOS ANGELES – The critics have spoken! The votes have been counted, and the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) is excited to announce its Top Ten List as well as winners of its annual film awards. “Nomadland,” directed by Chloé Zhao, tops the list for Best Picture by OFCS, which is comprised of nearly 300 film critics from around the world. Also, making the list is “Soul,” which nabbed Best Animated Feature.
From Our Members’ Desks (Jan. 25, 2021)
OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
5 Favorites Redux #64: Favorite Political Films
The Best Films of 2020
The Sundance 2021 Movies We Can’t Wait to See
- Excerpt: Each and every year, figuring out what to watch at the Sundance International Film Festival is a journey in and of itself.
Interviews
Interview With Ameen Nayfe, Promissing Director Responsible for 200 Meters, Jordan’s Entry for the Foreign Film Oscar
- Excerpt: Interview With Ameen Nayfe, Promissing Director Responsible for 200 Meters, Jordan’s Entry for the Foreign Film Oscar
Interview With Anne Paulicevich, The Amazing Director of Working Girls, the Drama that amazed Belgium
- Excerpt: Interview With Anne Paulicevich, The Amazing Director of Working Girls, the Drama that amazed Belgium and it’s the country’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar
Interview With Barbara Paz, Famous Brazilian Actress and Director of Babenco
- Excerpt: Interview With Barbara Paz, famous Brazilian actress and director of Babenco, a strong documentary about director Hector Babenco, Barbara’s late husband. Babenco is Brazil’s entry for the Foreign Film Language Oscar and candidate to the Oscar of Best Documentary,
Interview With Eché Janga, the Amazing Director of Buladó, Netherland’s Entry for the Foreign Language Film Oscar
- Excerpt: Interview With Eché Janga, a Promissing Director from Curacao that recently launched “Buladó”, the Netherland’s Entry for the Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2021.
Interview With Elani Dekker, South African Actress and Star of Toorbos.
- Excerpt: Interview With Elani Dekker, South African Actress and Star of Toorbos, an Amazing Romantic Drama and South Africa’s Entry For the Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2021
Interview With Italian Director Alessio Liguori, a New Master of Italian Horror that Recently Directed Shortcut
- Excerpt: Interview With Italian Director Alessio Liguori, a New Master of Italian Horror. His new film, “Shortcut”, is now available on VOD and Streaming in the US.
Interview With Stiaan Smith, the Star of the romantic drama Toorbos
- Excerpt: Interview With Stiaan Smith, a great South African actor that recently starred in the romantic drama Toorbos, South Africa’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar
Interview with Vadim Perelman, the Director of Persian Lessons, Belarusian Oscar nominee
- Excerpt: Interview with Vadim Perelman, amazing film director of “House of Sand and Fog” that was nominated for 3 Oscars. In 2020, Perelman presented the acclaimed Persian Lessons, am Holocaust drama that was selected as Belorussia’s Oscar Entry
Festivals: Individual Reviews
African Violet (Boston’s MFA’s Festival of Films from Iran)
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Director Mona Zandi Haghighi tells a story based on her own aunt with humor, compassion and a phenomenal eye for color.
There Is No Evil (Boston’s MFA’s Festival of Films from Iran)
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The filmmaker has a talent for creating a sense of dread in seemingly everyday circumstances, one which keeps the viewer guessing, every one of his four stories going in unexpected directions.
Awards Coverage
The Friday Face-Off, Round Three #6
Poll: Remaking Best Original Screenplay, 2009
Other Types of Articles
Oscar in Box Office History (Week 3, 2021)
Poll: Now That You’ve Seen “The Marksman”
Poll: What Are You Watching? (Jan. 22-24, 2021)
Preview: Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Preview: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Preview: Identifying Features
Preview: Judas and the Black Messiah
Preview: Malcolm & Marie
Preview: Outside the Wire, Updated
Preview: Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
Preview: Psycho Goreman
Preview: The Night
Preview: The Reckoning
This Day in Oscar History: January 15
This Day in Oscar History: January 16
This Day in Oscar History: January 17
This Day in Oscar History: January 18
This Day in Oscar History: January 19
This Day in Oscar History: January 20
This Day in Oscar History: January 21
This Week at the Movies (Jan. 22, 2021)
Here are some reviews of films coming out at the theater this week as well as others that may be in theaters or newly on home video.
Opening: Jan. 22, 2021
Limited (United States)
No Man’s Land
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: Rather than focus on white Americans’ need to open eyes to [their] vitriol and hate, the script asks their victims to shoulder the responsibility of their own oppression.
PG: Psycho Goreman
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: a very clever concept, but although it’s amusing for a while, “Psycho Goreman” spins off in too many directions, plot overtaking its simpler pleasures.
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: By never [giving anyone] a path towards redemption, Kostanski keeps things entertaining with a detached sense of revelry that lets us enjoy the gore without remorse.
2021 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
OFCS Presents: 24th Annual Nominations for 2020
The Online Film Critics Society Announces Nominees for Its 24th Annual Film Awards
The critics have spoken! The votes have been counted, and the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) is excited to announce the nominees for its 24th annual film awards. The OFCS, which is comprised of nearly 300 film critics from around the world, will be announcing the final winners on January 25, 2021.
Despite an unusual movie-going season with the pandemic in play, OFCS handed out nods in a variety of categories, including Best Picture, Best Animated Feature, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress as well as Best Debut Feature.
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Classics & More on DVD (Jan. 19, 2021)
Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Pre-2018 Film Reviews
Acute Misfortune
James Wegg @ JWR (2018)
- Excerpt: A Portrait of the Artist as a Deranged Man
Memories of Murder
James Wegg @ JWR (2003)
- Excerpt: The failure to serve and protect
Tammy and the T-Rex
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies (1994)
- Excerpt: The movie fills its “dumb fun” niche admirably.
From Our Members’ Desks (Jan. 18, 2021)
OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
5 Favorites Redux #63: Actors Turned Directors
Asia in Focus: 2020 in Review
- Excerpt: A journey through a year of Asia in Focus, looking at major cinema releases from Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Best Films of 2020
- Excerpt: It’s the end of one year and the start of another. It’s list time.
Awards Coverage
The Friday Face-Off, Round Three #5
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Jan. 8-10, 2021
Poll: Remaking Best Original Screenplay, 2008
Other Types of Articles
This Week at the Movies (Jan. 15, 2021)
Here are some reviews of films coming out at the theater this week as well as others that may be in theaters or newly on home video.
Opening: Jan. 15, 2021
Wide (United States)
The Marksman
For member reviews of this film, follow this link
2021 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
From Our Members’ Desks (Jan. 11, 2021)
OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
5 Favorites Redux #62: Snowy Movies
The Best Horror Films of 2020
The Best TV Shows of 2020
- Excerpt: With theaters largely closed, entertainment moved to the small screen. Here are the 25 best of the year.
Brent’s Top 15 Movies of 2020
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
My Top 10 Films of 2020
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: To say 2020 was a difficult year would be an understatement. Yet I still saw a lot of great films that made me happy.
Small Worlds: Ryan McNeil’s Top Five Films of 2020
Ryan McNeil @ www.thematinee.ca
- Excerpt: The scale of the stories on the screen was much smaller in 2020…but their impact – and their legacy – was undeniable.
Top Ten Films of 2020
- Excerpt: A drunken experiment, oily cakes, a horror remake, punk rock love… What made the cut for the best films of 2020?
Awards Coverage
The Friday Face-Off, Round Three #4
Poll: Remaking Best Original Screenplay, 2007
Essays
This Week at the Movies (Jan. 8, 2021)
Here are some reviews of films coming out at the theater this week as well as others that may be in theaters or newly on home video.
Opening: Jan. 8, 2021
Limited (United States)
One Night in Miami
For member reviews of this film, follow this link
The Reason I Jump
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: accomplishes one of cinema’s primary objectives – giving us the perspective of a world unknown to us.