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The Best Movie Dialogue of 2023
No matter how swamped I am during the Christmas holidays, I always enjoy transcribing stretches of dialogue that I think are particularly good. Is...
Thunderbolts*: Avengerz with a “Z”
The Marvel series confronts franchise fatigue head on during the opening of Thunderbolts*. While Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) executes a BASE jump off a...
All of Us Strangers: Only Lovers in the Building
After All of Us Strangers was shut out of the Oscar nominations, I was afraid I would have to relegate it to my annual...
Best Documentaries of 2022
In the year’s best fiction film, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On describes a documentary to his grandmother: “It’s like a movie, but nobody...
Scene 2 for Scenesters
Fort Worth movie fans may well remember The Scenesters as the opening selection of the Lone Star Film Festival last November. Now the movie's...
Considering John Cena
When I saw the trailer for Bumblebee some months ago, I was skeptical. Not just because all the previous Transformers movies have sucked, but...
Conjuring Frights
Having apparently wrung every last drop of blood and cash from the Rube Goldberg-ian torture porn of the Saw franchise, director James Wan has...
It Lives Inside: Fear Eats the Soul
They do make horror movies in India, but those are seldom exported, and for a good reason: Their aesthetics don’t translate so well to...
First Cow: Got Milk?
Some of the most fascinating filmmakers seem to have been born at the wrong time. Whit Stillman should have been writing Restoration comedies, Guy...
Oscar’s Hidden Gold
When I do this feature next year, Black Panther will be all over it and Annihilation will likely rate a mention. However, I’m still...
