Feb
09
Erosis
Basic Instinct is a lurid joke played on its own misogyny.
8 min read
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Feb
05
Veni Vidi Vacay
An Oscar season surprise, The Holdovers is modestly scaled but big on laughs and heart.
5 min read
Feb
02
He Wanted the Kingdom of God on Film
Cinema Paradiso's ode to the moving image is more image than moving, but what an image it is.
5 min read
Jan
29
Holy Ghosts
Andrew Haigh's beguiling fantasia about a middle-aged gay man reuniting with his long-dead parents is an achingly powerful exploration of the wounds we carry with us.
7 min read
Jan
26
Stranger Changer
Andrew Haigh's delicate dramatic touch was already fully-formed in his 2011 film about the chance encounter of two gay men.
6 min read
Jan
24
Oscar Nominations 2024
A list of this year's nominees, with thoughts on who is missing.
8 min read
Jan
22
Do The Write Thing
American Fiction's political humor is its weakest element, but as a character study and dramedy bolstered by a great supporting cast, it nonetheless entertains.
4 min read
Jan
17
Thin Grool
The 2024 musical iteration of Mean Girls is broadly enjoyable, but in smoothing out the original’s edges it has mostly been left without a personality or purpose of its own.
7 min read
Jan
15
Fetch Club
Mean Girls earned its pop culture memability with an exceedingly quotable script, but the meanness of its world rubs off on the movie in regretable ways.
6 min read
Jan
11
Music and Morality
While Inside Llewyn Davis may seem an outlier in the Coen Brothers' filmography, its approach to music shows it well in keeping with the moral framework of their other movies.
7 min read