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.
What we discourse about when we discourse about Barbenheimer
The discourses around Barbie and Oppenheimer have followed very similar patterns.
You are not smarter than the art you critique
Here's my best advice for young critics: Don't presume you know better.
The full horror of nostalgia
A wave of recent horror movies examines our cultural obsession with nostalgia — but not that closely
Lingua Franca and the beauty of second chances
Isabel Sandoval's 2019 film about an undocumented immigrant shows new ways to tell trans stories.
Retribution, restoration, and Batman
The 2022 film and the 1990s animated series about the character ask what justice truly looks like.
What I learned watching the longest movie ever made
Logistics lasts over 35 days, and it might make you think differently about the world.
The Worst Person in the World is about dissociation
This Norwegian dramedy kinda sorta captures what it's like to be totally adrift from your own self
