Joel and Ethan Coen Articles

Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment) The Hurt Locker was the National Society of Film Critics' big winner. The war drama about a bomb squad doing their work in the dangerous streets of an Iraqi city was voted best film of 2009, and earned honors for director Kathryn Bigelow and actor Jeremy Renner. Most US film critic' groups have picked [...]

George Clooney, Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount) Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner's screenplay for Up in the Air is the #1 winner among North American critics groups, with Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds coming in second place. Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber's (500) Days of Summer, a boy meets girl tale in which things don't quite go as planned, [...]

Juliette Binoche in Summer Hours ( Jeannick Gravelines / IFC Films) Olivier Assayas’ family drama Summer Hours has been named the best film of 2009 in indieWIRE’s annual poll of 114 film critics and bloggers, Eugene Hernandez reports. Also, David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. was chosen the best film of the decade. Starring Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, and Jérémie Renier, Summer Hours tells the story of [...]

Michael Stuhlbarg in A Serious Man (top); James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren in The Last Station (middle); Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel in (500) Days of Summer (bottom) The nominees for the 25th annual Spirit Awards have been announced. Two of the best picture nominees also happen to be this year's most nominated films: Lee Daniels' Precious and Michael Hoffman's The Last Station, with five [...]