Hereditary Will Completely Fuck Up Even The Most Seasoned Horror-Movie Watcher
My favorite genre of fiction, in books and stories and movies and probably even television shows, is horror. I love…
White Men Can't Jump Is A Lot Of Fun Masking What Appears To Be A Pretty Debilitating Gambling Addiction
If there’s a moral to be gleaned from White Men Can’t Jump, it’s that that if someone carrying many hundreds of dollars…
The Sandlot Is Full Of Little Shitheads And Terrible Baseball Advice
Over the weekend, The Sandlot turned 25 years old. Major League Baseball is celebrating the anniversary of its release…
The Mighty Ducks Is A Mediocre Movie With An Utterly Unsympathetic Protagonist
I’m not nostalgic for your favorite sports film, because I probably never saw it the first time around (unless it’s A…
Annihilation Will Creep You All The Way Out
If you saw the trailer for Annihilation and got hyped to watch Natalie Portman spend the movie kicking ass with a…
Hope And Glory Turned The Blitz Into A Party
This review of Hope and Glory was originally published in the New Yorker (October 5, 1987) and appears here with…
A List Of Some Of The Times The Last Jedi Told The Older Star Wars Movies To Eat Shit
Needless to say, major spoiler action follows.
Here Is A Short Review Of The Last Jedi
The Force Awakens was fun on its own merits, and thrilling in a nostalgic sort of way, and the fresh Star Wars youths…
The Black Stallion Takes Film Back To Its Elemental Beginnings
Originally published in the April, 1980 issue of Chicago Magazine, featured in the new anthology, Movies That Mattered, …
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer Is As Scary As Anything You'll Ever See
The scariest movie in theaters this Halloween season isn’t the one where a college kid relives the night she was…
What Is Mother! About?
Here’s a question: Should you go see Mother!, the new, polarizing, bearshit-insane film written and directed by Darren…
The Untouchables Is Too Neat To Be A Truly Great Gangster Movie
Thirty years ago The Untouchables, Brian De Palma’s most commercial movie to that point, was released and helped launch…
Suicide Squad Is The Summer's Best Movie About Divorce
I consider my life to consist of two parts: one before I saw Suicide Squad, the other after.
The First Three Rocky Movies Were Nothing But White Wish Fulfillment
This piece originally appeared in the August, 1982 issue of Film Comment. It is reprinted here with permission.
Disney's Bears: Bears Watching
There is a lot to like about Bears, the latest cinematic offering from Disneynature. There is much to dislike as well,…
Michael Bay's Ode To Meatheads: Pain & Gain, Reviewed.
There are many movies that could have been made from the raw materials of Pain & Gain, which is based on a series of out…
Danny Boyle Mesmerizes Himself. Trance, Reviewed.
For director Danny Boyle, anything worth doing is worth overdoing. With each genre of movie he makes, you get the sense…
An Epic That Stumbles. The Place Beyond The Pines, Reviewed.
Director Derek Cianfrance's last film, Blue Valentine, was a crushing study of a couple (played by Ryan Gosling and…
Room 237 Will Make You Love The Shining All Over Again
One of the saddest things about the death of a favorite filmmaker is realizing that you'll probably never see any new…