Movie reviews

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If there’s a moral to be gleaned from White Men Can’t Jump, it’s that that if someone carrying many hundreds of…

I’m not nostalgic for your favorite sports film, because I probably never saw it the first time around (unless it’s …

If you saw the trailer for Annihilation and got hyped to watch Natalie Portman spend the movie kicking ass with a…

This review of Hope and Glory was originally published in the New Yorker (October 5, 1987) and appears here with…

The Force Awakens was fun on its own merits, and thrilling in a nostalgic sort of way, and the fresh Star Wars…

Originally published in the April, 1980 issue of Chicago Magazine, featured in the new anthology, Movies That…

The scariest movie in theaters this Halloween season isn’t the one where a college kid relives the night she was…

Here’s a question: Should you go see Mother!, the new, polarizing, bearshit-insane film written and directed by…

Thirty years ago The Untouchables, Brian De Palma’s most commercial movie to that point, was released and helped…

I consider my life to consist of two parts: one before I saw Suicide Squad, the other after.

This piece originally appeared in the August, 1982 issue of Film Comment. It is reprinted here with permission.

There is a lot to like about Bears, the latest cinematic offering from Disneynature. There is much to dislike as…

There are many movies that could have been made from the raw materials of Pain & Gain, which is based on a series of …

For director Danny Boyle, anything worth doing is worth overdoing. With each genre of movie he makes, you get the…

Director Derek Cianfrance's last film, Blue Valentine, was a crushing study of a couple (played by Ryan Gosling and…

One of the saddest things about the death of a favorite filmmaker is realizing that you'll probably never see any…