Author: chrisreedfilm

Christopher Llewellyn Reed is a film critic, filmmaker, and educator. A member of the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic, he is Managing Editor at Film Festival Today; lead film critic at Hammer to Nail; the host of the award-winning Reel Talk with Christopher Llewellyn Reed, from Dragon Digital Media; and the author of Film Editing: Theory and Practice. In addition, he is one of the cohosts of The Fog of Truth, a podcast devoted to documentary cinema.

“Amour” at the Best Eccentric Musicians’ Hotel

Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012) How nice to see both Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva back on the screen! Now in … More

The Impossible (J.A. Bayona, 2012) I went to see this film today because it was the last of the narrative (fiction) … More

Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard, 2012) Rust and Bone is a film in which an Orca trainer from one social class meets … More

Arbitrage (Nicholas Jarecki, 2012) I missed this film when it came out. I even had an opportunity to see it … More

The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012) How could I have not reviewed this movie? I had such a visceral negative … More

Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012) For me, the best part of Zero Dark Thirty, back when I saw it in New … More

The 2013 Oscar Nominations were announced this morning. My picks are below. These are the movies that I think should win … More

pg. 350 – Traditionally, “movie stars … have served a crucial and psychologically necessary function as role models for trying on … More

I will be on Fox45, in a “Hotspot” segment they are shooting at the Creative Alliance, Thursday, 1/3/13 in the … More

Dear Readers, What a year! I started out 2012 as a man who taught filmmaking, film history and film aesthetics, … More