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Ed Gonzalez

Ed Gonzalez is the co-founder of Slant Magazine. A member of the New York Film Critics Circle, his writing has appeared in The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, and other publications.

The Brutalist

Oscar 2025 Winner Predictions: Cinematography

by Ed Gonzalez
February 25, 2025

This category could end up being a consolation prize for The Brutalist.

Dune: Part Two

Oscar 2025 Winner Predictions: Visual Effects

by Ed Gonzalez
February 22, 2025

This is a category that significantly favors best picture nominees.

Anora

Oscar 2025 Winner Predictions: Writing (Original Screenplay)

by Ed Gonzalez
February 19, 2025

Welcome to episode two of “How Many Oscars Will Sean Baker Win in One Night?”

Sean Baker

Oscar 2025 Winner Predictions: Directing

by Ed Gonzalez
February 18, 2025

Welcome to the first episode of “How Many Oscars Will Sean Baker Win in One Night?”

No Other Land

Oscar 2025 Winner Predictions: Documentary Feature Film

by Ed Gonzalez
February 16, 2025

AMPAS’s endorsement of one film in this category could have life-saving repercussions.

Flow

Oscar 2025 Winner Predictions: Animated Feature Film

by Ed Gonzalez
February 14, 2025

One film here feels like the natural move for today’s much-more-international AMPAS.

The Only Girl in the Orchestra

Oscar 2025 Winner Predictions: Documentary Short Film

by Ed Gonzalez
February 12, 2025

If given the option, voters will break for a lighter or more unambiguously inspirational film.

Wicked

Oscar 2025 Winner Predictions: Costume Design

by Ed Gonzalez
February 10, 2025

We’re going to break with tradition here by not rallying behind the period film.

Kieran Culkin

Oscar 2025 Winner Predictions: Actor in a Supporting Actor

by Ed Gonzalez
February 8, 2025

Culkin has practically run the table this Oscar season, and with good reason.

Inglourious Basterds

Review: Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Inglourious Basterds’ on Arrow Video 4K UHD Blu-ray

by Ed Gonzalez Derek Smith
January 5, 2025

This is destined to be among the best home video releases of the year.

The Damned

‘The Damned’ Review: Thordur Palsson’s Atmospheric, If Narratively Thin, Morality Tale

by Ed Gonzalez
December 27, 2024

Place here is less important than its function as an allegorical echo chamber.

Pandora’s Box

Review: G.W. Pabst’s ‘Pandora’s Box,’ Starring Louise Brooks, on Criterion Blu-ray

by Ed Gonzalez Jake Cole
October 10, 2024

This German silent drama is a stirring vision of the world gripped by a sinister moral vice.

Happy Campers

‘Happy Campers’ Review: An Empathetic Look at a Scrappy Paradise Facing Extinction

by Ed Gonzalez
July 27, 2024

The film’s sense of evasion is as much a hindrance as it is a badge of honor.

Anatomy of a Fall

Blu-ray Review: Justine Triet’s ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ on the Criterion Collection

by Mark Hanson Ed Gonzalez
May 23, 2024

Triet’s film builds a strong case as one of the best courtroom dramas in recent memory.

I Am Cuba

4K UHD Blu-ray Review: Mikhail Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba on the Criterion Collection

by Ed Gonzalez
April 19, 2024

I Am Cuba’s politics are crude and transparent but poetically revealed.

Asphalt City

Asphalt City Review: The Big Apple Is Rotten to the Core in Cynical E.M.T. Drama

by Ed Gonzalez
March 25, 2024

Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s Asphalt City is less a film than a guttersnipe’s wallow.

Saint Omer

Blu-ray Review: Alice Diop’s Saint Omer on the Criterion Collection

by Pat Brown Ed Gonzalez
March 25, 2024

Diop’s riveting meta-drama receives a series of extras that exalt its wide-ranging themes.

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Blu-ray Review: Laura Poitras’s ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ on the Criterion Collection

by Kenji Fujishima Ed Gonzalez
March 11, 2024

The extras further attest to Nan Goldin’s commitment to intertwining the personal and political.

Oscar Predictions 2024: What Will Win This Year

Oscar Predictions 2024: What Will Win This Year

by Ed Gonzalez Eric Henderson
March 4, 2024

We may as well just light it up and acquiesce to the inevitable all-consuming blast.

Problemista

Problemista Review: Julio Torres’s Wannabe Satire Succumbs to Grating Silliness

by Ed Gonzalez
February 25, 2024

The film makes a convincing case for Torres’s belief in art as a narcissistic act of self-care.

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