Rob Nelson

Akira Kurosawa's Ran

K'Naan at First Avenue Monday

City Pages nominated for 11 Society of Professional Journalists awards

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Younger Than That Now

Only Eight Years Old, Sound Unseen Shrinks for ’07, But Still Puts on the Ritz

6/13 Morning Communiqué

Only Eight Years Old, Sound Unseen Shrinks for ’07, But Still Puts on the Ritz

5/30 Morning Communiqué

Only Eight Years Old, Sound Unseen Shrinks for ’07, But Still Puts on the Ritz

5/28 Morning Communiqué

Only Eight Years Old, Sound Unseen Shrinks for ’07, But Still Puts on the Ritz

5/24 Morning Communiqué

Only Eight Years Old, Sound Unseen Shrinks for ’07, But Still Puts on the Ritz

5/23 Morning Communiqué

Only Eight Years Old, Sound Unseen Shrinks for ’07, But Still Puts on the Ritz

5/22 Morning Communiqué

Only Eight Years Old, Sound Unseen Shrinks for ’07, But Still Puts on the Ritz

5/21 Morning Communiqué

Only Eight Years Old, Sound Unseen Shrinks for ’07, But Still Puts on the Ritz

Fall Arts Movies

Only Eight Years Old, Sound Unseen Shrinks for ’07, But Still Puts on the Ritz

Your M-SPIFF 12-Pack

A dozen discerning film fest picks

Artists of the Year

Hurricanes, war, avian flu, locust plagues, that annoying song you couldn't get out of your head. It wasn't the greatest of all possible years. Nor was it halfway decent. But to prove that it wasn't all bad, we asked 29 writers to rave about the ar

Rob likes 'North Country,' Charlize Theron talks

Hurricanes, war, avian flu, locust plagues, that annoying song you couldn't get out of your head. It wasn't the greatest of all possible years. Nor was it halfway decent. But to prove that it wasn't all bad, we asked 29 writers to rave about the ar

Fall Film Events

Hurricanes, war, avian flu, locust plagues, that annoying song you couldn't get out of your head. It wasn't the greatest of all possible years. Nor was it halfway decent. But to prove that it wasn't all bad, we asked 29 writers to rave about the ar

A handy guide to summer movies that don't suck

Hurricanes, war, avian flu, locust plagues, that annoying song you couldn't get out of your head. It wasn't the greatest of all possible years. Nor was it halfway decent. But to prove that it wasn't all bad, we asked 29 writers to rave about the ar

Hustle & Flow

Hurricanes, war, avian flu, locust plagues, that annoying song you couldn't get out of your head. It wasn't the greatest of all possible years. Nor was it halfway decent. But to prove that it wasn't all bad, we asked 29 writers to rave about the ar

In Praise of Peter and Bobby

A film critic sends a fan letter to the Farrelly brothers

Return of the Psycho-Critic

A depressed movie lover talks himself into watching the Oscars

St. Paul treasure hunt

A depressed movie lover talks himself into watching the Oscars

We Heart Huckabees!

The Everything Movie lands on all four of our film critics' top 10 lists

Artists of the Year

12 Rods, Jon Stewart, Howard Stern, Quentin Tarantino, Garrison Keillor, MF Doom, Lawrence Lessig, Randi Rhodes...

Confessions Of A Psycho-Critic

Reeling from holiday fare, a movie reviewer goes head to head with his id

The Year in Film

Four critics pick 40 or so favorites--and fail to agree on a single one

Artists of the Year

Iraq. SARS. Jay Leno, Still on television practically every night. Yeah, 2003 was about as much fun as a social disease.

Film-Fest Pick Hits

Favorites from the second week of the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival

The Year In Film

Three movie critics pick 21 favorites (and only one in common) from 2002.

Two Out of Three Ain't Bad

The Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival's Middle Week Has Hits, Sleepers, and Snoozers

Artists of the Year

The Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival's Middle Week Has Hits, Sleepers, and Snoozers

Do That to Me One More Time

Once is never enough: Try another tryst with world cinema in week two of the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival

The Greatest Shows on Earth

Uzbek beauties! Swedish peaceniks! Iranian mummies! A guide to the high-wire act otherwise known as the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival.

Rock around the doc

U Film's "Sound Unseen" festival projects our mythologies of music onto the screen

Reel Two

The Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival spins into its second week

It's a Wrap

The Mpls/St. Paul International Film Festival swaddles the Cities in cinema

Film for Art's Sake

The Mpls/St. Paul International Film Festival swaddles the Cities in cinema

Mpls./St. Paul International Film Festival Week II: See No Daylight

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the multiplex...

Reeling In the Mpls./St. Paul International Film Festival

Ninety-three films, three projectors, and the whole wide world

Off Beat

Ninety-three films, three projectors, and the whole wide world

Artists of the Year

Ninety-three films, three projectors, and the whole wide world

From Minneapolis to Mali

Ninety-three films, three projectors, and the whole wide world

Maybe We'll Take Them to the State Fair

Ninety-three films, three projectors, and the whole wide world

1973 Film

Ninety-three films, three projectors, and the whole wide world

Mpls./St. Paul Film Fest Roundup

Ninety-three films, three projectors, and the whole wide world

A Grab Bag of Reels

Ninety-three films, three projectors, and the whole wide world

Artists Of The Year

We list the best of the best of 1997.

Artists Of The Year

We list the best of the best of 1997.

On the Lame

We list the best of the best of 1997.

City Pages' HiberNation

We list the best of the best of 1997.