Nashville Movie Reviews - Nashville Movies Guide

Scorching British thriller Red Riding is must-see TV for the big screen

There's really no arguing that the epic British neo-noir trilogy Red Riding, a true-crime thriller that's become one of the year's arthouse... More>>

By Sean L. Maloney

Published: March 18, 2010

Oscar-nominated Daniel Ellsberg documentary shows how one man exposed corruption at America's highest levels of power

Once upon a time, a man leaked secrets to expose government's failings, not to protect them. Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith's Oscar-nominated... More>>

By Ron Wynn

Published: March 18, 2010

Scary mountain-climbing thriller North Face pits man against vertical terror and flesh-freezing frost

Cold Sweat

As the Nazis were coming to power in the 1920s and early '30s, the German film industry became enamored of the mountain film — a genre that... More>>

By Steve Erickson

Published: March 11, 2010

Three stories of desperate cops fail to yield one first-rate movie

Few movies have explored the thin line between vigilant law enforcement and rampant abuse of authority better than Antoine Fuqua's gritty 2001... More>>

By Ron Wynn

Published: March 04, 2010

Oscar nominee 'The Last Station' revisits that 21st-century fixture, the celebrity deathwatch, in the days of Tolstoy

A superb production about the final days of Leo Tolstoy, Michael Hoffman's The Last Station is neither solely about the origins of... More>>

By Ron Wynn

Published: February 25, 2010

Attention, parents: International TV favorite A Town Called Panic makes a very funny feature debut

My 8-year-old said the Belgian animated feature A Town Called Panic reminded her of the Disney Channel's Phineas and Ferb, and in my household... More>>

By Jim Ridley

Published: February 25, 2010

Shutter Island, Scorsese's longed-for leap into low-down genre filmmaking, isn't the potboiler you expect — to its credit

Pulp Friction

Based on Beantown crime novelist Dennis Lehane's best-selling 2003 thriller, Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island is being billed as a rare foray... More>>

By Bilge Ebiri

Published: February 18, 2010

In Michael Haneke's chilling The White Ribbon, a German town's terror becomes a puzzle without a solution

The only thing that disappoints me more than the unwillingness to watch a black-and-white film with subtitles is the notion that movies shouldn't... More>>

By Sam Smith

Published: February 18, 2010

Director Andrea Arnold discusses stocking her raw, sensual 'Fish Tank'

British director Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank shows that the tradition of kitchen-sink realism is alive and well. Set on a housing estate in Essex,... More>>

By Steve Erickson

Published: February 11, 2010

From Paris with love (and bullets) to London in The Belcourt's smashing French-British noir festival

The birthplace of the cool Contrasted with such other sui generis American forms like the Western, the film noir was rarely heroic. Its... More>>

Published: February 11, 2010

"Please hear my cry," soul great Sam Cooke sang — and Peter Guralnick did

Acclaimed biographer Peter Guralnick's admiration for and love of gospel and soul legend Sam Cooke's music has yielded two magnificent projects.... More>>

By Ron Wynn

Published: February 04, 2010

Black-metal documentary Until the Light Takes Us plays up shock value over substance

Northern blights

To many, arson, Satanism, murder and suicide are all that's known about the curious strain of counterculture known as black metal. With its... More>>

By Matt Sullivan

Published: February 04, 2010

In Chantal Akerman's legendary minimalist mind-blower Jeanne Dielman, the devil is in the details

One of the perpetual dilemmas in writing about Chantal Akerman's brilliant early feature Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, is... More>>

By Mike D'Angelo

Published: February 04, 2010

Anything but Bored to Death, author Jonathan Ames visits Nashville for his new film The Extra Man

The difference between the vision of novelists and filmmakers is often so distinct that many writers, once their works are purchased by... More>>

By Ron Wynn

Published: January 28, 2010

Short Takes

CRAZY HEART Longtime actor Scott Cooper's first directorial venture makes no attempt at innovation, yet it ultimately succeeds far more... More>>

By Ron Wynn and Jason Shawhan

Published: January 28, 2010

Writer-director Scott Teems and actor Ray McKinnon discuss That Evening Sun and getting the South right on film

Writer-director Scott Teems has seen his share of films made about the Southern experience by natives and outsiders, both during his time as a... More>>

By Ron Wynn

Published: January 21, 2010

Frederick Wiseman ongoing study of institutional workings yields this season's most invigorating surprise, La Danse — The Paris Opera Ballet

Score one for the old masters. In an unusual turn of events, one of the biggest word-of-mouth hits of the winter arthouse season is the latest... More>>

By Michael Sicinski

Published: January 21, 2010

Bible Stud : After The Book of Eli, Revelation will be televised — on Syfy

Allen and Albert Hughes' spectacular 1993 debut Menace II Society put the spotlight on urban blight and young people whose lives had been... More>>

By Ron Wynn

Published: January 21, 2010

Tom Ford's exquisite, shallow A Single Man is an empty but impeccable funeral suit

Would Tom Ford's directorial debut A Single Man be received differently if it were made by a 25-year-old film student or 35-year-old music-video... More>>

By Steve Erickson

Published: January 14, 2010

Black Dynamite and Broken Embraces

BLACK DYNAMITE Deliberately loading a film with absurd situations, cliche-ridden dialogue, farcical characters and even continuity errors seems... More>>

By Ron Wynn and Noel Murray

Published: January 14, 2010

From Heath Ledger's death to Johnny Depp's intervention, Terry Gilliam talks about the desperate circumstances that threatened—and saved—his latest film

From the look of his latest film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, it has taken special effects technology almost four decades to catch up... More>>

By Steve Erickson

Published: January 07, 2010

Actor Michael Shannon discusses working with Werner Herzog and the diva trips of flightless birdsSon Rise

If you don't know Michael Shannon's name or face, that's probably to his credit. An exciting actor who can turn bullying, baby-faced or bug-eyed... More>>

By Jason Shawhan

Published: January 07, 2010

Hunger, The Hurt Locker, and Up in the Air: a last look at the highs of the movie year 2009

It was the year hand-drawn and stop-motion animation battled game-changing innovations in virtual realism, while Quentin Tarantino provided the... More>>

Published: December 31, 2009

Musical version of Fellini's 8½ is ½ too much

What The Simpsons' Oh, Streetcar! did to Tennessee Williams ("You're a dame, and I'm a fella" / "Stanley, stop or I'll tell Stella!"), Maury... More>>

By Jim Ridley

Published: December 24, 2009

High-tech whizbangery battles Stone Age storytelling in James Cameron's 3-D pixelpazoola Avatar

Technological advancement happens so quickly nowadays, clipping along at such a ridiculously exponential rate of progress, that it's become easy... More>>

By Mike D'Angelo

Published: December 17, 2009