Sep
29
25 minutes on... Barry Lyndon
5 min read
movies
Aug
23
What we discourse about when we discourse about Barbenheimer
The discourses around Barbie and Oppenheimer have followed very similar patterns.
8 min read
Aug
09
You are not smarter than the art you critique
Here's my best advice for young critics: Don't presume you know better.
8 min read
Aug
19
The full horror of nostalgia
A wave of recent horror movies examines our cultural obsession with nostalgia — but not that closely
8 min read
Aug
12
Lingua Franca and the beauty of second chances
Isabel Sandoval's 2019 film about an undocumented immigrant shows new ways to tell trans stories.
5 min read
Jul
25
Retribution, restoration, and Batman
The 2022 film and the 1990s animated series about the character ask what justice truly looks like.
9 min read
Jun
03
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
Mar
14
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
12 min read
Feb
11
The Matrix Resurrections resonates with trans stories told across generations
The fourth film in the venerable sci-fi franchise locks in to the ways trans people see themselves in each other.
7 min read
Nov
26
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is a love letter to our misunderstood teenage selves
The Japanese animated film is about so much more than a girl who can, uh, leap through time.
5 min read