Adolescence: ‘What Have You Done?’
Sometimes when a cultural phenomenon seems to come out of nowhere, I’m already on top of it. The British crime drama Adolescence quickly became a...
Thin Line Festival 2025
Thin Line Festival takes its name from the space between two seemingly contrary and competing ideas. The organizers say it’s where you find the...
Hour of The Amateur
About half an hour into The Amateur, Charlie Heller (Rami Malek) is lurking inside a Parisian apartment building where a terrorist (Barbara Probst) lives....
Oscar’s Gold
Honestly, some evil part of me wishes that Donald Trump had withheld federal aid from California after this winter’s wildfires, because then you’d really...
Seed of the Sacred Fig: A Movie in Secret
Mohammad Rasoulof is now an exile because he made The Seed of the Sacred Fig. The Iranian director was the talk of the Cannes...
The Best Lead Performances of 2024
I’m afraid I owe this column to the L.A. wildfires, which put off the announcement of the Oscar nominations and gave me some extra...
The Best Supporting Performances of 2024
I’m trying something different this year. The end of this article contains a mention of movies with terrific ensemble casts. I think that’s worth...
The Best Filmmaking Debuts of 2024
Need hope for the upcoming year? Writing up this feature always gives me that, as I look forward to the movies these first-time directors...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2024
They say that blog posts are all audio and visual content now, and that the written word is becoming an afterthought. Maybe that’s true,...
Top 10 Films of ’24
Maybe we should start calling this feature the Top 10 Fiction Films. I don’t include documentaries in this list anymore because I give them...
