Raj
Movies: A Separation
A Separation (playing at the Kentucky Theatre) is a masterpiece, but it's unassuming and unpretentious in a way that praise like that usually doesn't...
Weekend Movies: The Hunger Games
by Raj Ranade
A series of questions regarding The Hunger Games:
- No one likes the literalists who turn their noses up at entire films just because...
Weekend Movies: 21 Jump Street
by Raj Ranade
Movie remakes of old TV shows usually strike a balance between reverence for and gentle mockery of their sources - sometimes it...
Hot and Not on DVD: March
by Raj Ranade
You’d be forgiven, after the more-terrible-than-usual slog that was this year’s Oscar ceremony, for never wanting to think about the films of...
Ace Weekly’s Official Oscar Night Predictions
by Raj Ranade
If you're not a reader of Hollywood trade weeklies, you are A) a better-adjusted human being than I, and B) probably unaware...
Weekend Movies: The Grey, Shame
by Raj Ranade
"You're going to die," says Ottway to the man. The blood spilling from the man's severed artery suggests that this is true....
Movies: The Artist, Haywire
by Raj Ranade
First off: if you've never seen a silent movie (which I suspect is true for a lot of people reading), head to...
Movies: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
This review appears on page 12 of the January 12 print edition of Ace.
by Raj Ranade
When a critic compares a movie to a video...
Movies: Young Adult
by Raj Ranade
Movie direction is basically a process of seduction, and Jason Reitman has had a traditional tendency to come on too strong. Reitman's...
Weekend Movies: Melancholia
by Raj Ranade
Don't let the movie star glamour and swooning operatic lyricism of Lars von Trier's Melancholia (playing at the Kentucky Theatre) fool you...