Everybody's Got One: The Home of Tim Grierson

I understand that it's fun to goof on bad movies -- hey, I do it with Showgirls and Dog Lover's Symphony -- but to spend as much ...

That's the question I ask in this week's IFC Fix column , because I'm not entirely sure that a lot of authenticity adds much to...

Amanda Seyfried's latest star vehicle, Gone , isn't quite as terrible as Red Riding Hood , but it's another discouraging sign t...

For a lot of music critics, Paul Simon's album from last year, So Beautiful or So What , was a major comeback for the 70-year-old singer...

Yes, it's been an Oscar-heavy week over here at Everybody's Got One . A few days ago, I offered up my Oscar ballot for Best Pictur...

Every Oscar season, there are those few films that get nominated that most people absolutely cannot stand -- or, at least, they're the ...

In my heart of hearts, I was hoping that Wanderlust could be a modern-day Lost in America . You know, self-satisfied, well-to-do couple ...

You know the drill : It's almost time for the Oscars, so here's how I would vote for Best Picture if I was a member of the Academy....

When you think about Adrien Brody's Oscar win, this is probably what you remember. And, sure, it was a classic Academy Awards moment, b...

I continue to take no delight in the slow-motion implosion of Nicolas Cage's career. Even while watching something dreadful like Tresp...

It's been seven years since Fiona Apple put out her exceptional Extraordinary Machine . While spending a wonderful Valentine's Day e...

When people -- fellow film critics, specifically -- complain about how bad studio movies are, I always want to throw in a slight correctio...

It's been a long time now, but there was once a period when Denzel Washington was my favorite actor. Can anyone make that claim now? ...

When you write about music, you have to be a realist. Bands break up and get back together all the time, and quite often it has to do with m...

Note: Bilge Ebiri recently launched a blogathon in honor of Amadeus. This is my contribution. Robert Christgau, the Dean of American Roc...

Sometimes I wonder if Rachel McAdams wants to be a star. After her breakthrough in The Notebook and Wedding Crashers , she seems to have mo...

It's become an annual tradition I love: writing about the Oscar-nominated shorts for The Village Voice . For the second straight year, ...

Hollywood produces lots of bad movies, but there's a particular type of bad movie it does that makes me positively uncomfortable. That ...

If you listen to only one song from Abel Tesfaye (a.k.a. the Weeknd), make it this one. (What Philippe Petit has to do with any of this is ...

And so we come to the end of another Sundance film festival. All in all, I saw 32 films, including a couple I checked out at Toronto last y...