Category: Film
“The Birds, and the Stars, and the Chimney Sweeps”: Revisiting the Anti-Capitalist Moral World of “Mary Poppins” in Light of its New Sequel
In December 2018 I strolled into an evening showing of a movie I had formerly committed to avoid...
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Film Review: If Beale Street Could Talk
Barry Jenkins’s If Beale Street Could Talk is a gorgeous, devastating watercolor of a film, so...
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Film Review: Vice
Vice is a loud, long, exhausting movie about the political career and aggressive corruption of...
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Film Review: Roma
Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, which is available to stream on Netflix, is a striking, painstaking...
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Film Review: The Old Man and the Gun
The Old Man and the Gun, a winsome, sometimes-sepia-tinted fable about a kindly, elderly bank...
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Film Review: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The new film from Joel and Ethan Coen, called The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and available to stream...
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Film Review: Mary, Queen of Scots
I saw the film Mary, Queen of Scots at a screening accompanied by a short panel discussion in...
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Film Review: The Favourite
The thesis of The Favourite, the new film by Yorgos Lanthimos, is that it really sucked to be a...
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