Movies

I have seen some more 2025 movies since I put out my 10 best list. Only one of them cracks my top 10 — a 5 1/2 hour documentary by Julia Loktev called “My Undesirable Friends, Part One.” Yes, it’s 5 1/2 hours and the movie isn’t

This past year has been one of the best for cinema in quite some time, mostly due to the remarkable collection of international films introduced at Cannes in May. American films were also better than they’ve been this decade, even if the number released in theaters remains paltry. The

I have taken several days to think about the next project in my scene-by-scene movie series. Two movies that are front of mind for me right now are the 2000 film “In the Mood for Love” and the 1975 film “Mirror.” It also happens that both movies are celebrating milestone

I took a few days off after completing “The Green Ray” and pondered taking a different direction in my next scene-by-scene movie analysis. I’ve decided to go with the 2022 film “Aftersun” by first time director Charlotte Wells. This is a departure for me in several ways. First, it’

For my next big project, I’m going to continue my slow speed chases through some more films that I love. I’m going to pick from my all time top 150 list, but I will come nowhere close to writing about all of them … we’ll see how much

A weakness of movie criticism is that one is expected to capture the essence of a film on a single viewing in some solid, permanent manner. Now that I’ve worked through several long-form studies of films in very short bites at a time, I notice the pitfalls of the