by The Staff
January 5, 2012

Critic: Shawn Stone
Best of 2011
1. Melancholia
A lost soul (Kirsten Dunst, wonderful) is fulfilled by doom in Lars von Trier’s lovely—and often very funny—vision of a personal and/or global apocalypse.
2. Contagion
Steven Soderbergh deftly evoked the horror ...
by Shawn Stone
December 7, 2011

More than a couple of critics have reported walking out at the end of Melancholia feeling energized, elated, even ecstatic. This would seem peculiar, if only because it’s a film about the end of the ...