Email Author Rob Nelson

Awards

• 2008 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published July 4, 2007

  "L.A. Plays Itself"

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2010 Stories by Rob Nelson

• Film is a battlefield

  published June 30, 2010

  Trailing a platoon of U.S. Army soldiers in Afghanistan, Restrepo is a nerve-jangling work of "you are there" combat correspondence.... More >>

• The Warlords

  published April 7, 2010

  No less a man than Jet Li cries multiple times in The Warlords, an impressively gargantuan Chinese battle epic that generously accommodates... More >>

• A Prophet

  published March 3, 2010

  Agreeing at the insistence of a Corsican mob boss to suck and then slash a fellow inmate, newly jailed Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim)—poor,... More >>

• Jacques Audiard, the "French Scorsese," arrives stateside with A Prophet

  published March 3, 2010

  Agreeing at the insistence of a Corsican mob boss to suck and then slash a fellow inmate, newly jailed Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) —... More >>