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Review: THE SON, A Nearly Criminal Misuse of Everyone Involved

Three years ago, the collaboration between playwright-turned-filmmaker Florian Zeller and Anthony Hopkins, The Father, netted two Oscars, including an Academy Award for Best Actor for Hopkins’ deeply moving portrayal of an elderly man suffering from late-stage dementia. More than a...

Blu-ray Review: A DANGEROUS METHOD

There was a time when the name "David Cronenberg" conjured a singular style. He built his name on a specific type of body horror no one else could approach. Back to his very earliest films, he examined the duality between...

NYFF 2011: A DANGEROUS METHOD Review

During yesterday's press conference at Lincoln Center, director David Cronenberg insisted he doesn't think about his past pictures while engaged in the making of a new one. That doesn't mean that audiences, and more specifically his legions of fans--and I'm...

TIFF 2011: A DANGEROUS METHOD Review

Perhaps the film I most anticipated at this year's TIFF, it stands to follow that David Cronenberg's fictionalized treatment of the interaction between Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung and Sabina Spielrein is my first major disappointment. But mine is not...

Cronenberg's A DANGEROUS METHOD Finds a Home with Sony Pictures Classics

It's pretty hard not to be excited about David Cronenberg's upcoming period drama starring Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud, Michael Fassbender as Carl Jung and Keira Knightley as the girl in the middle. We've been waiting a while but news...

A Trio Of Stills From Cronenberg's A DANGEROUS METHOD

After a handful of on-set spy shots the first trio of actual stills from David Cronenberg's upcoming A Dangerous Method have turned up recently and while they don't provide much in terms of action they do give a fantastic...

First Look At Mortensen And Fassbender As Freud And Jung In Cronenberg's A DANGEROUS METHOD

Well, now. Any film smart enough to cast Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender as its leads is a film with fantastic taste regardless of any other factors but take a look at the photo above to get a glimpse of...