Brutalist: Big Blocks
Of all the Oscar contenders in play this awards season, The Brutalist is unquestionably the longest. We’re talking three hours and 35 minutes, which...
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...
Better Man: Hey Hey, It’s the Monkey!
“What’s with the monkey?” asks Robbie Williams in the trailer of Better Man, a movie based on his life. The film is in many...
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...
Complete Unknown: What About Bob?
Yet another music biopic that feels about as deep as a children’s picture book, A Complete Unknown is based on Elijah Wald’s history Dylan...
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,...
Nosferatu: Walpurgisnacht
Time once again for me to be a film-school nerd. May I direct your attention to the whiteboard. Like all other film-school nerds, regardless...
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...
Mufasa: The Lion Sings
Male lions are full of crap. They roar, they have manes that look cool in photographs, and they fight among themselves for control of...
LOTR: Holding Out for a Héra
When I wrote up my holiday movie preview last week, I wondered if a Japanese anime treatment of The Lord of the Rings would...
