No Other Choice: Making Paper
Ask most people to name a film by Park Chan-wook, and they’ll say Oldboy. That movie came out more than 20 years ago, a...
Online Film Critics Announce Nominations
This is my first year voting for the Online Film Critics Society Awards, and yesterday they announced their nominations for 2025's movies. Unlike other...
The Best Documentaries of 2025
My list of the year’s best documentaries looks different from other critics’ lists, mainly because I put a premium on things like entertainment value...
The Best Filmmaking Debuts of 2025
A lot of famous actors made their directing debuts in 2025, but none of their efforts were good enough to make it onto this...
Viva New Vegas
Open-world games like the Fallout ones are well known for letting the player go almost anywhere and do almost anything. They’re also famous for having...
The Best Lead Performances of 2025
There are some new faces on this feature this year, which is lucky for me, because otherwise I think I’d have trouble writing up...
The Best Supporting Performances of 2025
This will be the first year that the Oscars have a Best Casting category, and it’s long overdue. The films that have made the...
The Top 10
Who was it who said that a critic’s year-end Top 10 list isn’t really a list of their 10 favorite films? Rather, it deliberately...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2025
I thought I’d post this annual feature a bit early so that you’re not overly slammed in the coming days when I put my...
Marty Supreme: Paddle to the Metal
A couple of years ago, people started speaking of Timothée Chalamet and other male actors as “rodent men,” with their prominent teeth and messy...
