The Best Jane Austen Movies
On account of the pandemic, Focus Features has announced it is releasing Emma. on streaming services tomorrow, and so I’m posting this listicle of...
Swallow: Choking Hazard
Swallow is the first outing as a solo feature filmmaker for writer-director Carlo Mirabella-Davis (who co-directed the documentary The Swell Season), and I'm not...
Emma.: Make Me a Match
A few months ago, I mused about how new generations have new versions of Little Women to pick over. Why not do the same...
Traitor: Deep Six Mafia
I’ve always admired informants. A lot of people don’t. They call them rats and stool pigeons. They say “snitches get stitches.” It’s true, many...
Invisible Man: Evidence of Things Not Seen
In 1932, Rouben Mamoulian adapted Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde into a film. Robert Louis Stevenson’s science-fiction novel had already been made into at...
Seberg: Jean in a Bottle
At the tail end of last year, Seberg was given a pro forma release in New York to make it eligible for the Oscars....
The Lodge: Dead Snow
Five years ago, the filmmaking team of Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz captured the world’s attention with Goodnight Mommy, a horror movie they made...
The 30 Best Korean Movies of the 21st Century
I promised myself that if Parasite won the Best Picture Oscar, I’d run this listicle of the best Korean films I’ve seen since the...
Marriage Story: Split
Oh, Noah Baumbach, you magnificent bastard. This highly literate filmmaker often writes about scabrous divorces, and you’d be hard pressed to find one more...
Irishman: Made Man
In the end, The Irishman’s winless fate at the Oscars was probably down to a surfeit of woe-is-me tales about aging white guys like...
