Here's a preview of Overstreet's thoughts on the latest Mission: Impossible movie.

Pawel Łoziński offers us the privilege of meeting his neighbors in a documentary full of chance encounters and surprises.

Daniel Goldhaber's film about desperate measures for desperate times is one of the year's most critically acclaimed films, and it's now available for rental on AppleTV+ and other streaming platforms.

If we don't know the context we came from, or the biology from which we were born, we might face particular challenges in figuring out who we are. That's the idea that drives Freddie on an erratic journey of self-discovery and reinvention in this riveting film.

This Oscar-nominated documentary exposes corporate cruelty from a voice of experience and a heart of compassion.

A flashback to a curious moment at the crossroads of Christianity and the big screen: a VeggieTales movie that actually scored "fresh" on... wait for it... Rotten Tomatoes.

No, this isn't about a girl who doesn't speak. Cáit has plenty to say throughout. This is, instead, a movie about the extraordinary power of people who have the patience and generosity to listen — to the soft-spoken, the uncertain, and the insecure.

The day has finally come — I've seen enough films from 2022, and spent enough time reading about them, talking about them with thoughtful moviegoers, and writing about them that I'm ready to post my favorite films of 2022. (Just in time for the Oscars!)

This list of fifteen more represents all of the movies that I cannot believe I’m not including in my final Top Ten list.

This year, my countdown of the previous year's best music has been a marathon of four posts: Honorable Mentions, #36 through #21, #20 through #11... and now this one. Here are my ten favorite albums of 2022. Sample tracks from each one and see if any of them speak to you. Then, post notes about your own favorites in the Comments if your favorites differ from mine!

Are you up for a treasure hunt? Here we go with one of the last two parts of my 2022 musical review.

The Academy Awards are about to hand out a bunch of Oscars, and they're going to throw around the term "best" a lot. That's a relatively meaningless term. I want to know about the films that moved and inspired you. Here's Part One of a three-part post on my own favorite films of 2022.

This Oscar-nominated animated short is a rare wonder that will likely become an early-childhood treasure for young viewers and families.

The great Bill Nighy is masterful in a strangely simplified adaptation of "Ikiru."

Now, Looking Closer has a companion Substack newsletter!

You're likely to find some new favorites here in this wildly diverse list of albums and selected tracks from my favorite 2022 recordings.

As I'll need some time to prepare my post on my Top 30 Favorite Recordings of 2022, I hope that this substantial feast of "Honorable Mentions" leads you to many hours of new musical discoveries.

A flashback to the '80s: Here's a new reflection on a "comfort food" movie worth revisiting during the holidays.