Bottoms (2023)
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December 2, 2023
Here's a high school comedy about hormones and hijinks that goes to violent extremes, afflicting the comfortable and making the uncomfortable laugh until they're sick.
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The Unknown Country (2023)
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November 5, 2023
You're probably hearing a lot about Lily Gladstone's performance in Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon. In fact, she was just as magnetic earlier this year in The Unknown Country, a film worth seeking out on streaming services, and one of my favorites of 2023.
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Barbie, Pt. 3: My full review!
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October 29, 2023
My three-part series on Greta Gerwig's Barbie culminates with my full review.
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Killers of My Substack Journal: New films by Scorsese and Fincher
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October 29, 2023
In a season of intensifying violence — in American neighborhoods, and in battlefields of global significance — some of our best filmmakers are telling stories about gun-wielding villains. I've just published thoughts on The Killer and Killers of the Flower Moon.
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Barbie, Pt. 2: Action figures, their accessories, and me
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October 29, 2023
In Part Two of my Barbie coverage, I establish some necessary context for my upcoming film review. My history with toy trends is a story of formative influences: Barbies for girls, armed men for boys.
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Barbie, Pt. 1: While frightened men burn dolls, Christian women rave about Barbie’s wisdom
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October 15, 2023
Greta Gerwig's brilliant blockbuster gets us laughing at the absurdity of real-world hierarchies (including injustices often reinforced in Christian circles to the harm of everyone involved).
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Was Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer inspired by Raiders of the Lost Ark?
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September 15, 2023
Christopher Nolan seems to be remaking Steven Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in this profound meditation on America's self-righteous obsession with coercive violence and apocalyptic firepower.
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A scorecard for Star Wars: Visions — Season 2
September 15, 2023
A quick review of my personal Star Wars history and notes on this new animated series, which has a few delightful surprises... and a whole lot of storytelling that might've been ChatGPT'd.
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Showing Up (2023)
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August 16, 2023
Kelly Reichardt's latest depicts the day-to-day challenges of artmaking with such truthfulness that artists may find it almost too familiar.
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