(September 23, 2021)
SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE. I think a lot about the influence of historical context on works of art. Strip away the social and political events of the time and does...
(September 16, 2021)
MALIGNANT. I was a vocal detractor of James Wan before I knew his name, long before I would ever see a single frame of one of his movies. Saw (2004),...
(September 9, 2021)
WORTH. In 2001, New York City might as well have been 1 million miles away from me. In rural Southeastern Washington, that particular September morning was gorgeous, the changing season...
(September 2, 2021)
"Bob Ross, 52, Dies; Was Painter on TV." That was the caption in the July 13, 1995 New York Times obituary section. No headline, no picture. Just a blurb. Yes,...
Annette and Stillwater offer very different French experiences
(August 26, 2021)
ANNETTE. Received rapturously at the Cannes Film Festival — the standing ovation lasted long enough for Adam Driver to smoke a cigarette — this might fairly be interpreted as the...
Ride the Eagle and Pig shine, while Beckett falls short
(August 19, 2021)
RIDE THE EAGLE. I did not, do not, probably will not watch the series New Girl. Nothing against it, it just isn't likely to happen. As such, I know series...
(August 12, 2021)
THE SUICIDE SQUAD. It has been five years (sigh) since the misbegotten and now confusingly titled Suicide Squad bowed. At the time, I was hellbent on enjoying the thing, intermittently...
(August 5, 2021)
REVIEW JUNGLE CRUISE. Somewhere in another corner of the Multiverse Marvel/Disney's Loki series has failed to help me conceptualize, there is a version of me with the wherewithal to join...
(July 29, 2021)
F9: THE FAST SAGA. The thrill isn't gone, per se, but in having recently revisited the undeniable high-water mark of installments four through six — Fast & Furious (2009); Fast...
(July 22, 2021)
REVIEWS WEREWOLVES WITHIN. Surprise or not, I don't know a whole helluva lot about video games. I've dabbled but that particular swath of popular culture is, by and large, foreign...
(July 15, 2021)
SUMMER OF SOUL (... OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED). Intimates might wonder (fairly) at my desire to watch and ramble on about a concert movie. I've shared...
(July 8, 2021)
REVIEWS FALSE POSITIVE. To dispense with it at the outset: Yes, Rosemary's Baby (1968) is part of the conversation. It has been for more than half a century. It arguably...
(July 1, 2021)
REVIEWS GOOD ON PAPER. I usually don't like it when comedians make movies because they're seldom as funny as their stand-up routines. I get that they want to break out...
(June 24, 2021)
REVIEWS BO BURNHAM: INSIDE. I don't think I'm alone in having harbored hope that the past year — not to mention the four year season in purgatory preceding it —...
(June 17, 2021)
REVIEWS IN THE HEIGHTS. There was a scene in In the Heights where everyone from the Washington Heights neighborhood came together to sing, many from different Latin American countries, all...
(June 10, 2021)
REVIEWS THE CONJURING 3: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT. When The Exorcist (1977) aired on television in 1980, I watched it from the cracked pleather recliner I was still...
