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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...
James Wan loves him some creepy dolls in The Conjuring.

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...