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Our Top 10 Movies of 2011

Counting down RELEVANT's favorite films of the past year. Read more

The Christmas Movies You Forgot

A guide to the lesser-known holiday classics. Read more

Q&A with the Cast of The Muppets

Kermit, Jason Segel, Amy Adams and the gang on their most sensational, inspira... Read more

You Can't Marry a Hot Vampire

How fantasies like Twilight damage expectations for romance and reality. Read more

Blog

Movies that Matter—Three Colors: Blue
Julie, the character played by Juliette Binoche in Blue, the first film in the Three Colors trilogy, is not an easy woman to like. It’s true we feel for her—she loses both her husband and young daughter to a single car accident in the film’s first few minutes—but how she responds to her tragedy isn’ ...
Movies that Matter: The Seventh Seal
The apartment across from ours has been decorated with cobwebs, skulls and tombstones since late September. The skulls are cartoonish and exaggerated, the better to gloss over the fact that a skull is a head stripped of its flesh, muscle tissue, teeth and eyes, not to mention the body it once a belo ...
The Stories Behind Absent
As we sat backstage at Central Christian Church in Mesa, Ariz., the 2,000-seat sanctuary filled with eager fans—those of both Metallica's lead singer James Hetfield and of filmmaker Justin Hunt, who directed 2008’s award-winning documentary American Meth. The sold-out crowd came to screen Hunt’s lat ...
Movies That Matter: The Double Life of Veronique
Based on the premise alone, you might expect The Double Life of Véronique to fall within the bounds of magical realism. It’s about two female doppelgängers, one Polish (Weronika) and one French (Véronique). Both are musically inclined, both experience the world around them in wide-eyed wonder and bo ...
What the Oscar Noms Should Have Been
Editor's note: We asked Brett McCracken, a regular film reviewer for us, to evaluate the Oscar nominations and give us his thoughts on what should have been nominated. Here's what he came up with: The 2011 Oscar nominations were announced this morning, and as is typically the case, there ar ...