Reader Question: What are some good movie analysis websites?

Open forum question via comments from Mahmoud:

Do you know any sites that analyze films and talk about the subtextual stuff?

In other words, I mean the kind of criticism the analyze a film and tells you why it succeeds or why it failed and what could have been done to avoid that.

Do you know any kind of sites that have that kind of criticism?

I wish I had time to do more movie analysis here, but at least check out the “14 Days of Screenplays” series, Versions 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 as you’ll find comments re some great movies there, both mine and GITS readers.

There are tons of resources on the web and here are some that I’ve checked out in no particular order:

Sense of Cinema

Bright Lights Film Journal

David Bordwell’s Website on Cinema

Metaphilm

Film of the Year

Criterion Collection

Wikipedia has a great list of film periodicals

And this list of dozens of film critics including academic ones

GITS readers, where do you go to get great movie analysis?

UPDATE: In comments Matt Bird reminded me of a great resource, screenwriter Todd Alcott (Antz) who does some fantastic movie analysis. I’ve got him linked in my blogroll, but just to make it easy, here it is:

Todd Alcott

Thanks again, Matt B, for that reminder.

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