Carlitos’ Way
The recent surge in Mexican-made films on both sides of the U.S. border has had mostly positive results, but I suppose we were due...
Kvetch
"If you're stupid enough to want a feel-good movie, go get yourself a foot massage," says Boris Yellnikoff (Larry David) to the camera early...
Of Monsters and Men
A friend and I recently commiserated that keeping up with the Marvel movies and TV shows is beginning to feel like homework, how if...
No Hard Feelings: Jen X
We’ve seen before how actors win Oscars or even just get a nomination and react to it by turning all serious. They take roles...
Women in Love
There’s a proud tradition of gay male film directors who make their best movies about women: George Cukor, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pedro Almodóvar, François...
Firing Blind
It has become a depressingly familiar ritual during awards season: movies based on real-life events being picked apart by professional trolls and op-ed writers....
Despicable We
The first thing you’ll see in The Hateful Eight is an overture. It’s a title card shown over several minutes’ worth of mood-setting music...
The Best Movies of 2010
I didn’t run this piece in January like I wanted, for reasons involving file conversion that are only going to bore you silly. The...
Magic Mike: Comic Strip
A few years ago, Steven Soderbergh made a movie called The Girlfriend Experience about a high-priced prostitute, in which he cast a porn star...
Saltburn: Home for the Holidays
After Barry Keoghan won an Oscar nomination last year for his work as the cop’s abused and ill-fated son in The Banshees of Inisherin,...
