Blue Moon (Linklater, 2025)
Blue Moon is a film so dour, so bitter, so devoid of joy or hope or spirit, that even those who praise it have trouble articulating why they are doing… Continue reading "Blue Moon (Linklater, 2025)"
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One Big Happy Family (Sohn, 2025)
Comedy about specific ethnic or religious groups can be one of the hardest genre subsets to evaluate because the line between Horatian self-deprecation and Juvenalian contempt can move–or appear to–depending… Continue reading "One Big Happy Family (Sohn, 2025)"
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Nuremberg (Vanderbilt, 2025)
Nuremberg is a sprawling mess of a movie, one that I admittedly appreciated all the more for its messiness. Topics like the Final Solution don’t lend themselves to commercial slickness,… Continue reading "Nuremberg (Vanderbilt, 2025)"
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East of Wall (Beecroft, 2025)
East of Wall occupies a murky space between drama and documentary where it is not always apparent what is embellishment and what is meant to be accepted at face value.… Continue reading "East of Wall (Beecroft, 2025)"
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Jurassic World: Rebirth (Edwards, 2025)
“Did everyone who got eaten deserve it?” my wife asked as I walked through the door, returning from Jurassic World: Rebirth. After over three decades of marriage, I probably should… Continue reading "Jurassic World: Rebirth (Edwards, 2025)"
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Seasoned — Pilot
Seasoned is a proposed television show based on the popularity of Mandy Patinkin’s and Kathryn Grody’s home videos on social media. The pilot episode, “Hangry,” aired in the Episodic program… Continue reading "Seasoned — Pilot"
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Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (Piani, 2025)
As a longtime scholar of Jane Austen’s fiction and a self-professed snob about films derived from it, the biggest compliment I can pay to Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is… Continue reading "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (Piani, 2025)"
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Nearly everything I can think to say about Final Reckoning sounds like (and is) a criticism, so I guess I should be honest that I thought the film superbly executed… Continue reading "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning"
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Relative Control (Yachin, 2025)
If one grows up watching a lot of television or going to the movies, one develops positive associations with any number of actors or actresses who participated in beloved projects.… Continue reading "Relative Control (Yachin, 2025)"
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Good Bad Things (Stanger, 2024)
Good Bad Things is a winsome indie romance from Music Box about a guy with Muscular Dystrophy who finds the woman of his dreams (of all our dreams really) on… Continue reading "Good Bad Things (Stanger, 2024)"