Blog Archive
2025
Best Films of 2024: Oscars Edition
2024
Cannes 2024 Coverage
Best Films of 2023: Appendix
2023
Parallel Tracks: Past Lives and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Cannes 2023: Recap
Best Films of 2022
2022
Wordle: Play Both Versions of February 15th
Best Films of 2021
2021
Best Films of 2020: Living Room Lessons
2020
Review: Shithouse
The Topeka School
Songs and Memories: A Quarantine Collection
Review: The Assistant
Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2020 Oscar Predictions
Best Films of 2019
2019
Short Story: Angels in the Architecture
Review: Parasite
TIFF Review: Knives Out
TIFF Review: Waves
TIFF Review: The Two Popes
TIFF Review: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
TIFF Review: Uncut Gems
TIFF Review: Jojo Rabbit
TIFF Review: Proxima
TIFF Review: Marriage Story
TIFF Review: True History of the Kelly Gang
TIFF Review: Joker
TIFF Review: Blackbird
TIFF Review: Lucy in the Sky
TIFF Review: Jungleland
TIFF Review: Honey Boy
Review: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Review: The Last Black Man In San Francisco
Cannes 2019: Recap
Review: Avengers: Endgame
Review: Paddleton
Review: Alita Battle Angel
Back to Cannes: From ‘Three Days’ To ‘Cinephile’
Best Films of 2018: On Trauma and Our Response
2018
Short Story: Stations (Nostalghia)
Review: On The Basis Of Sex and Vice
Quiet Echoes: Integrity and Contradiction in the Shadow of Trump
Review: Mid90s and Minding the Gap
Review: If Beale Street Could Talk
Review: Crazy Rich Asians
Review: Sicario: Day of the Soldado
‘Technically Right’ Is The Worst Kind Of Wrong
Cannes Day 3: Shoplifters, Yomeddine, Under the Silver Lake
Cannes Day 2: BlacKkKlansman, Knife + Heart, Wild Pear Tree
Cannes Day 1: In My Room, Dogman, Sorry Angel
Cannes Day 0: Burning
Fundamentalism and The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Tribeca Review: Zoe
Tribeca Review: All About Nina
Tribeca Review: The Party’s Just Beginning
Tribeca Review: Disobedience
Tribeca Review: State Like Sleep
Tribeca Review: The Seagull
Tribeca Review: Blue Night
Tribeca Review: Tully
SFFILM Review: Eighth Grade
Going to Cannes!
Review: Ready Player One
Review: Tomb Raider
Review: Love, Simon
Review: Thoroughbreds
Review: Red Sparrow
Review: Annihilation
Review: A Fantastic Woman
Review: Black Panther
Review: Peter Rabbit
Review: 2017 Oscar-nominated Documentaries
Review: The Cloverfield Paradox
Best Films of 2017
December Fiction Roundup: Sonora, American Pastoral, +5
Review: The Post
2017
Review: Call Me By Your Name
Review: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Review: The Shape of Water
Review: The Disaster Artist
October-November Fiction Roundup: Exit West, Moonglow, + 11
Review: Coco
Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Review: The Florida Project
August-September Fiction Roundup: Lincoln in the Bardo, The Underground Railroad, + 3
Shanghai Nostalgia
Thoughts On Civil War Monuments
Review: Detroit
June-July Fiction Roundup: The Sympathizer, Interpreter of Maladies, + 5
Review: The Big Sick
May Fiction Roundup: White Teeth, A Visit from the Goon Squad, +1
Review: Personal Shopper
A rant for people like me
Best Films of 2016
2016
Review: Manchester By The Sea
Review: Arrival
2016 Oscar Predictions
Review: The Witch
Review: Dirty Grandpa
Best Films of 2015
Review: Anomalisa
Review: The Big Short
2015
Review: Carol
Review: The Good Dinosaur
Review: The Hunger Games: Mocking Jay Part 2
Review: Room
Review: Spotlight
Review: Spectre
The Great War for Civilisation
Review: Bridge of Spies
Review: The Walk
Review: The Martian
Review: Sicario
Review: Z for Zachariah
Review: Queen of Earth
Review: Meru
Review: No Escape
Review: Mistress America
Review: The Look of Silence
Review: Straight Outta Compton
Review: The End of the Tour
Review: The Gift
Review: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Review: Southpaw
Review: Paper Towns
Review: Ant Man
Review: The Overnighters
Review: San Andreas
Review: Mad Max: Fury Road
Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron
Review: Ex Machina
Review: True Story
Review: Furious 7
Review: While We’re Young
Throwback Review: Short Term 12
Review: Divergent and Insurgent
Review: Run All Night
Review: CHAPPiE
Review: Kingsman: The Secret Service
Review: Unbroken
Review: Project Almanac
Oscar Ballot: Part 1
Review: American Sniper
Review: Selma
Best Films of 2014
Review: Into the Woods
Review: The Interview
Review: The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies
Review: Wild
Review: The Imitation Game
2014
Review: Exodus: Gods and Kings
Review: The Babadook
Review: Foxcatcher
Review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1
Review: The Theory of Everything
Review: Rosewater
Review: Interstellar
Review: Big Hero 6
Review: Nightcrawler
Review: Birdman
Review: Whiplash
Review: John Wick
Review: Fury
Wolf In White Van
Review: The Guest
Review: The Judge
Review: Gone Girl
Review: The Equalizer
Review: The Skeleton Twins
Review: Ida
Review: The Congress
Review: Starred Up
Review: Museum Hours
Review: Frank
Review: The One I Love
Review: What If
Review: Snowpiercer
Review: Calvary
Review: Guardians of the Galaxy
Review: Lucy
Review: Boyhood
Review: Wish I Was Here
Review: How to Train Your Dragon 2
Review: 22 Jump Street
Review: Edge of Tomorrow
Review: A Million Ways to Die in the West
Review: X-Men: Days of Future Past
Review: Godzilla
Review: Neighbors
Review: The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Review: Transcendence
Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Review: Noah
Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Review: Muppets Most Wanted
Review: 300 Rise of an Empire
Review: About Time
Review: The Lego Movie
Movie Reviews: Intro
Sock Folding, or, Please Don’t Let This Be My Only Legacy
2013
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto
