Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2026. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

EXCLUSIVE: Open Road Films and Briarcliff Entertainment jointly acquired U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to Separation, a horror film directed by William Brent Bell (The Devil Inside, The Boy) ...

Breaking from the awards season pack in a pretty significant way, the International Cinephile Society announced that Asghar Farhadi’s “A Separation” led the winners of their 9th annual awards. “A ...

The winner of the 2011 Sydney Film Prize came down to a tight contest between two Middle Eastern films, Ashgar Farhadi’s "A Separation" from Iran and Mohamed Diab’s "Cairo 678" from Egypt, but it was ...

The Iranian film A Separation, written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, seems to me the best film of 2011. It is one of the Academy Award nominees for Best Foreign Picture, but by any sense of justice ...

This is going to be so scary, at least to me. I actually might have to skip this one, as it will keep me up for weeks. It does look really good too, so I am quite conflicted about that. Separation, ...

It’s possible everyone in “A Separation” is right. It’s possible everyone is wrong. But the most important thing for the Iranian drama is that every character thinks he or she is right. “A Separation” ...

While A Separation is the first Iranian movie ever to win the Oscar for best foreign-language film, Iran has been a cinema hotbed for decades, turning out exceptional work despite the strict codes of ...

The Separated, an Atlantic documentary, follows Anita and her son Jenri, who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border this summer. The documentary’s producer, Jeremy Raff, says he wanted to capture a ...

Though you might not have guessed it from the brief and elegant acceptance speech made by Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi at last week's Oscars, moviemaking in Iran today requires an authentic act of ...