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Feb
07
Barbie, beautiful and blonde and dressed in pink, looks into a mirror that doesn't have glass in it.

Forever 2014

What we get mad about when we get mad about Barbie's Oscar snubs
18 min read
Feb
02
A girl talks to a man. They're both dressed in formalwear. The man leans on an upside-down photo of a couple.

How Edward Yang's Yi Yi helps you keep track of over a dozen major characters

6 min read
Jan
17
Sheldon (an egg with two chicken legs sticking out) and his chick brother Booker in the cartoon Garfield and Friends.

Toward a definition of "Egg Cinema"

How movies made by seeming cis people sometimes end up super trans.
10 min read
Nov
29
Key art for The Holly and the Ivy shows Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott, and Margaret Leighton.

The best Christmas movie you've (probably) never heard of

The Holly and the Ivy is both deeply old-fashioned and unexpectedly modern.
7 min read
Nov
24
Two people embrace in the center of a ballroom, balloons having fallen on the floor all around them. A band plays onstage.

The marriage movie

3 min read
Nov
15
The word "Logistics" in a white san serif font, against a black background.

Repost: What I learned watching the longest movie ever made

Logistics lasts over 35 days, and it might make you think differently about the world.
8 min read
Oct
31
Dan (Ewan MacGregor) peers through a hole in a door put there by his axe-wielding father in The Shining.

Five thoughts on Mike Flanagan's Doctor Sleep

What's sneaky smart about Doctor Sleep's portrayal of the fallout of an abusive childhood
6 min read
Oct
18
Two people in a car look back at a car parked behind them. That car's driver shines a flashlight at them.

How Zodiac perfectly places you in its characters' obsessive worldview

Zodiac is the perfect examination of our true crime obsession. And it came out 16 years ago.
9 min read
Oct
13
Regan floats into the air above her bed as Fathers Merrin and Karras perform their exorcism ritual.

The Exorcist, demonic possession, and trans stories

7 min read
Sep
29
A group of drunken men sit slouched around a table, light spilling in from a nearby window.

25 minutes on... Barry Lyndon

5 min read