Marshall Fine
Marshall Fine
 
Film critic and journalist Marshall Fine writes about movies at the website Hollywood & Fine (www.hollywoodandfine.com). He serves as freelance film/TV critic for Star magazine.

He is the author of well-regarded biographies of directors Sam Peckinpah and John Cassavetes and director of a feature-length documentary about writer Rex Reed.

He is a member and three-time chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle. His work has appeared in the New York Daily News, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, New York Observer, Premiere, Cosmopolitan, Cigar Aficionado and Entertainment Weekly. He conducted the Playboy Interview with both Howard Stern and Tim Robbins.

He is host/producer of film series at Symphony Space in Manhattan and the Emelin Theater in Mamaroneck, NY. He regularly guest-hosts at other film series in the New York area and has programmed films at the Museum of the Moving Image and the Tarrytown Music Hall.

Blog Entries by Marshall Fine

Interview: Director Craig Zobel on Creepy Compliance

(3) Comments | Posted August 16, 2012 | 08/16/12 09:43 AM ET

Craig Zobel understands that his new film, Compliance, makes audiences uncomfortable to the point of creeping them out.

That's kind of the point, the filmmaker says.

"There is that line," Zobel says. "Obviously, it's not ideal if you make something that disturbs people so much that they walk...

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Why I'm still a movie critic

(1) Comments | Posted January 5, 2012 | 01/05/12 07:22 AM ET

Let's sum up, shall we?

I essentially worked right through the holidays, in terms of posting on a daily basis. So I'm taking a few days off from reviewing and will resume the daily treadmill when I get back from a short break next Wednesday (1/12/12).

I did my

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