Christopher Nolan

As expected from Nolan, “Oppenheimer” is another fantastic addition to his illustrious body of work.

UC Berkeley’s College of Letters and Sciences hosted a panel discussion about J. Robert Oppenheimer following the release of Christopher Nolan’s biopic about the infamous physicist.

The movies are about personal struggles. Struggles that no one else can seemingly relate to, but that others face. It’s about those facades that we put up, and how others relate to them.

While the prickly sense of tension is a consistent strength in the film, “The Batman” makes a habit of giving itself away too soon.

If your film is a commercial film, it has to reinvent its genre of choice, be constantly talked about by the press and audiences and/or have a hefty studio campaign budget standing behind it to even stand a chance at getting nominated. And then you’ll still lose to stuff such as “The Shape of Water.”

Writing about art put me close to so many artists. It was exhilarating. But I was only ever close.

Visuals have gotten a lot of the credit for what is making films more immersive. Less obvious is the way scores have changed the way we engage with films.

Spielberg elicits an infectious sense of wonder that’s only topped by “Jurassic Park,” a genuine pathos missing from his late-career period pieces.

“Best Picture” is a massive concept that is not properly captured by the rules and logistics in place because it transcends them.

Despite offering a surprisingly eclectic spread of nominees, the 90th Academy Awards proved to be utterly, boringly predictable.