Win Win
Detroit Film Critics Society Announces the Best of 2011 Nominations
The Detroit Film Critics Society is pleased to announce the Best of 2011 nominees in ten categories. The society was founded in spring 2007 and consists of a group of twenty-two film critics who write or broadcast in the Detroit area as well as other major cities within a 150-mile radius of the city including Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, and Flint, Michigan. Each critic submitted t...[Read More]
Movie Review: Win Win
A high-school wrestling comedy with perennial indie schlub Paul Giamatti coaching sounds like it could be an unbearable retread of recent bombs like Mr. Woodcock or Drillbit Taylor, but with a surefire ensemble cast and a tricky balance of humor and pathos more in line with Little Miss Sunshine, Win Win turns out to be one of the early sleeper surprises of 2011. Giamatti’s Mike Flaherty is a Couns...[Read More]
Interview with Thomas McCarthy, director of Win Win
It’s a movie that’s “hard not to enjoy on some level.” That’s how director Thomas McCarthy describes his latest film, Win Win. After seeing it, it’s hard to disagree with that statement. This writer is in full agreement. Win Win tells the story of a struggling small town lawyer and moonlighting high school wrestling coach, Mike Flaherty (played by Paul Giamatti), who stumbles upon a runaway teen w...[Read More]