On the Hulu Channel: Keisuke Kinoshita’s A Legend or Was it? Kinoshita's meditation on mob mentality is, more urgently, a magnificently mean motion picture. Scott NyeJune 21, 2013
On the Hulu Channel: Anthony Asquith’s The Woman in Question A Rashomon-like murder investigation continually challenges notions of truth, past and present. Scott NyeJune 14, 2013
Scott Reviews Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing [Theatrical Review] The modern adaptation avoids many of the pitfalls of the genre, while highlighting so many of the attributes of the text. Scott NyeJune 6, 2013
Scott Reviews John Sturges’ The Great Escape [Blu-ray Review] The film is still as great as its title promises, but the new transfer doesn't exactly live up to this claim. Scott NyeJune 4, 2013
On the Hulu Channel: Ken Russell’s Mahler This 1974 biopic is far from what we expect from the genre, but all the revelatory for it. Scott NyeMay 24, 2013
Scott Reviews Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Murderer Lives at 21 [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review] Clouzot's wartime entertainment is a ball of thriller-as-comedy. Scott NyeMay 17, 2013
Scott Reviews Yûzô Kawashima’s Bakumatsu taiyô-den [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review[ Considered one of the greatest Japanese films ever made by its country's critics, cinephiles in the West now have an opportunity to view this overlooked classic. Scott NyeMay 11, 2013
Scott Reviews Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell [Theatrical Review] Polley's third feature, and first documentary, is an earnest affair. And yet... Scott NyeMay 9, 2013
Scott Reviews Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers [Theatrical Review] Wheatley's follow-up to his 2011 triumph, Kill List, is nearly as twisted, and sharply hilarious. Scott NyeMay 9, 2013
Scott Reviews BFI’s COI Collection Volume 8 – Your Children and You [DVD Review] The collection might be of more interest to historians than cinephiles, but parents of any stripe can still learn a lot from these postwar shorts. Scott NyeMay 8, 2013
Scott Reviews Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain [Theatrical Review] Michael Bay's latest is a masterful evisceration of the commercialized American Dream. Scott NyeApril 25, 2013
Scott Reviews Jeff Nichols’ Mud [Theatrical Review] The writer/director's third feature is his most complacent, and least interesting. Scott NyeApril 23, 2013
Scott Reviews Pierre Étaix’s The Suitor [Theatrical Review] Film plays Saturday and Monday at Portland's Northwest Film Center. Scott NyeApril 20, 2013
Scott Reviews Pierre Étaix’s As Long As You’re Healthy [Theatrical Review] Film will play at Portland's Northwest Film Center as part of the touring Pierre Étaix retrospective. Scott NyeApril 12, 2013
Scott Reviews Claude Chabrol’s Le Beau Serge and Les Cousins [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review] Chabrol's closely-knit first two films are available on DVD and Blu-ray for the first time in the U.K. Scott NyeApril 12, 2013