ONE-OFFS

What to make of Popeye Doyle in 2021? The answer may be found in another Friedkin film.

A look back at the musical theatre and subsequent movie musical legend.

We draft the best performances of the last 5 years.

The Rough Cut Staff's picks for the best films of 2020.

Writer-director Sabrina Doyle discusses her Tribeca-bound feature debut, Lorelei.

An ode to the out-of-towners who try to sound like the townies.

I had big plans to finally wrestle with the Dekalog. I've rewatched four Mission: Impossibles and two Spider-Mans instead.

COVID-19 won’t fundamentally remake the theatrical exhibition or the film industry – but only because that was already happening.

You know when someone asks you what movie they should watch, and you recommend one, and they say “oh, what’s that about?”

It’s high time Hollywood accepts that film and politics have always walked hand-in-hand, and that's not going to change.

As the dust settled on this past awards season, our team here at Rough Cut came together to crown our own favorites.

There are movies about gambling, and there are movies about gamblers.

How do we – how does film – acknowledge and even interact with the world around us without letting the moment subsume the stories we tell?

Male/Female? Lead/Supporting? Why not Original/Pre-Existing?

A strange ritual: Awards with a gold man. As if men were gold. Or worthy of it.

It’s as simple as 1, 2, 3.

Jonny Diaz on why he watches sad movies.

Carson Cook can't follow the instructions and lists far more than 10 films.

Zach D'Amico on the shared cinematic experience and the power of we.

The twenty performers who dominated the screen in multiple 2019 films.

Movies are a sequence of scenes that tell a story.

Even when a work is somehow less than the sum of its parts, those parts are still worth saluting.

The top 25 bits and pieces of 2019 movies.

Zach D'Amico's favorite "pieces" of movies.

In 2019, long-simmering global tensions around income inequality and class anxieties boiled over onto cinema screens.

Women are still underrepresented in regards to awards, but that doesn't mean their presence wasn't felt across the filmic landscape.

2019 was the year of catharsis put to film.

A look back at the peaks and valleys of the world's most famous space opera.

The most underrated feats of audio and visual mastery we experienced this year.

Matt Damon's His obsession with the concept of self hasn’t waned over time, it’s merely metamorphosed.

What makes a movie worth returning to over and over?

In the long arc of time, history is written by the victors. But in the day-to-day lives of the rest of us? Lines are drawn by the powerful.

Second lives offer the chance to reset, to reinvent. The chance to find the successes that eluded us in our first go-round.

A brutally unflinching look at the savagery that men can perpetrate when given the opportunity, but also a moving portrait of decency.

A film that has a distinct sense of its characters’ selves, even when they do not.

To celebrate this week’s release of The Irishman, we take a look back at the films of Martin Scorsese, renowned auteur and fanboy troll.

For Wright, the most potent form of The Matrix's complacency-inducing blue pill is nostalgia.

If you look beneath the surface, Waves and Psycho share a DNA making them uniquely thrilling and one-of-a-kind achievements in filmmaking.

Is there such thing as a sure thing in Hollywood anymore? We've endeavored to find out.

These are the 2019 performers who made us laugh, cry, and stand up and cheer, but who probably won't be making speeches come February.

Scenes from a Marriage provides a uniquely raw look into the psyche of two individuals who have dedicated themselves to each other.

Our initial predictions for the 92nd Academy Awards.

The 20 most powerful experiences we had in film this decade.