The great Nicolas Cage shows up for Dream Scenario, but is the movie worthy of him?
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March 8, 2024
No, Nicolas Cage is not "funnier than he's ever been." But he's really funny. And while everyone complains about the lackluster ending, let me praise what it does so well.
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The Holdovers lives up to its name
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March 7, 2024
Alexander Payne's latest has its highlights, even if it holds us a little too long, and strains a little too hard for a crowd-pleasing conclusion.
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Beauty and the rock’n’roll beast: Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla
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March 7, 2024
A double-feature of Priscilla and Spencer might be a fascinating study. Or it might seem merely redundant.
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Misgivings about “a masterpiece”: Killers of the Flower Moon
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January 26, 2024
Scorsese's new epic features some of the strongest and most conscientious work of his career. But the fact I'm opening with words about him here hints at what gives me mixed feelings about the film.
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Three Colors: Blue at 30
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January 1, 2024
My 10,000-word deep-dive on Kieslowski's masterpiece is published in a new anthology.
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Climbing The Eight Mountains: dazzling views, mixed feelings
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December 12, 2023
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Bottoms is for 2023 what Heathers was for 1988
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December 2, 2023
Here's a high school comedy about hormones and hijinks that goes to violent extremes, afflicting the comfortable and making the uncomfortable laugh until they're sick.
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Lily Gladstone goes soul-searching in The Unknown Country
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November 5, 2023
You're probably hearing a lot about Lily Gladstone's performance in Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon. In fact, she was just as magnetic earlier this year in The Unknown Country, a film worth seeking out on streaming services, and one of my favorites of 2023.
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Barbie, Pt. 3: My full review!
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October 29, 2023
My three-part series on Greta Gerwig's Barbie culminates with my full review.
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Killers of My Substack Journal: New films by Scorsese and Fincher
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October 29, 2023
In a season of intensifying violence — in American neighborhoods, and in battlefields of global significance — some of our best filmmakers are telling stories about gun-wielding villains. I've just published thoughts on The Killer and Killers of the Flower Moon.
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