Tag: melanie laurent

Staff Selects: The Best of 2009

A Serious Man The Coen brothers have made a career of great films so distinct in style that there is no confusing them for anyone else’s work, yet so different from each other that everyone has a different favorite. After winning their Oscars for No Country for Old Men, the brothers made the type of…

6 Underground

There was a time when, to many, Michael Bay movies seemed like the worst things that could dominate a cinema. His fast-cutting, over-saturated films can be difficult to sit through purely from an aesthetic standpoint, and his contentedness to let the camera leer on explosions and women’s bodies, rather than engaging with any sort of…