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The Phoenician Scheme
Wes Anderson returns to the well, and this time around that's mostly a good thing.
Sinners
Keeping vital big-screen entertainment alive!
Tess
A masterpiece that belongs to Nastassja Kinski and Sharon Tate as much as Roman Polanski.
Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948)
This mini-masterpiece might be Hitch's most unexpected triumph.
Revisiting David Lynch: Lost Highway (1997)
Lost Highway is an important bridge in David Lynch's career, ushering him out of the world of Twin Peaks (1992’s Fire Walk with Me was the previous…
New(ish) Releases: Megalopolis
Megalopolis teems with contradictions: it’s a $120 million DIY vanity project, both personal and wildly excessive, maudlin and debaucherous.
My Canon: Empire of Passion (1978)
Post #2 in a series revisiting my favorite movies.
New(ish) Releases: Twisters
The best blockbuster of 2024 (so far).
Films of Palestine: "Fertile Memory" (1981)
This is the second post in a series focusing on the films of Palestine.
New(ish) Releases: "The Holdovers," "Ferrari," "Four Daughters," "Stranger and the Fog"
Warning: the following contains plot spoilers for The Holdovers!
Catching Up with Wes Anderson, Godzilla, and El Conde
Quick thoughts on a few 2023 movies.
Killers of the Flower Moon
The scope of history outweighs the demands of cinematic drama in Martin Scorsese’s newest epic, Killers of the Flower Moon. Based on the non-fiction…
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