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Film Reviews

Honest, well-researched takes on film — the craft, the context, and whether it earns its reputation.

The Dark Knight FILM REVIEW

The Dark Knight

A city interrogates its own morality, and a clown submits the exam.

Christopher Nolan · 2008
Toy Story 5 FILM REVIEW

Toy Story 5

Two kinds of glow, one kid's bedroom, and a franchise finally out of easy answers.

Andrew Stanton · 2026
Dune FILM REVIEW

Dune

A planet you can hear before you can see, and a hero worth doubting.

Denis Villeneuve · 2021–2024
Fight Club FILM REVIEW

Fight Club

The most quoted movie about not listening to it that anyone has ever made.

David Fincher · 1999
American Psycho FILM REVIEW

American Psycho

A satire mistaken for aspiration, since the year 2000.

Mary Harron · 2000
The Odyssey FILM REVIEW

The Odyssey

A three-thousand-year-old story about a man too in love with his own legend to go home.

Christopher Nolan · 2026
Spider-Man: Brand New Day FILM REVIEW

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Everyone forgot Peter Parker. He's the only one still keeping the promise.

Destin Daniel Cretton · 2026
Good Will Hunting FILM REVIEW

Good Will Hunting

A janitor solves the hallway equation. The harder one takes two hours.

Gus Van Sant · 1997
The Shawshank Redemption FILM REVIEW

The Shawshank Redemption

A box-office failure that quietly became the most beloved film ever made.

Frank Darabont · 1994
Oppenheimer FILM REVIEW

Oppenheimer

Three hours built around a silence that arrives late on purpose.

Christopher Nolan · 2023
The Godfather FILM REVIEW

The Godfather

A wedding on the surface. A succession, underneath.

Francis Ford Coppola · 1972
Pulp Fiction FILM REVIEW

Pulp Fiction

Three stories, told out of order, that only make sense once you stop trying to fix that.

Quentin Tarantino · 1994
Parasite FILM REVIEW

Parasite

A house with a basement nobody mentions, and a family that only fits in it by pretending.

Bong Joon-ho · 2019
Whiplash FILM REVIEW

Whiplash

Not quite my tempo — and the cost of closing that gap.

Damien Chazelle · 2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel FILM REVIEW

The Grand Budapest Hotel

A perfectly symmetrical film about a world that stopped being symmetrical long ago.

Wes Anderson · 2014
Get Out FILM REVIEW

Get Out

The politest weekend a boyfriend has ever survived. Barely.

Jordan Peele · 2017
Blade Runner 2049 FILM REVIEW

Blade Runner 2049

A memory can be manufactured. The ache it produces apparently cannot.

Denis Villeneuve · 2017
Mad Max: Fury Road FILM REVIEW

Mad Max: Fury Road

A two-hour chase scene that somehow finds room for a real political argument.

George Miller · 2015
Everything Everywhere All at Once FILM REVIEW

Everything Everywhere All at Once

A laundromat, a tax audit, and the entire multiverse, all somehow the same argument.

Daniels · 2022
The Social Network FILM REVIEW

The Social Network

A company built on the idea of friendship, founded by a man who has almost none.

David Fincher · 2010
Casablanca FILM REVIEW

Casablanca

A love story where the most romantic act available is letting someone go.

Michael Curtiz · 1942
12 Angry Men FILM REVIEW

12 Angry Men

One room, one afternoon, and eleven men who thought this would be quick.

Sidney Lumet · 1957
Spirited Away FILM REVIEW

Spirited Away

A ten-year-old loses her name and gets it back through work, not magic.

Hayao Miyazaki · 2001
No Country for Old Men FILM REVIEW

No Country for Old Men

A man finds two million dollars in the desert. The desert wants it back.

Joel & Ethan Coen · 2007
The Matrix FILM REVIEW

The Matrix

A simulation convincing enough that most people inside it would rather not know.

The Wachowskis · 1999

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