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Holding the American West to Its Promises
In 'On Swift Horses,' Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi seek to carve out spaces for themselves in an uneven, queer two-hander.
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A Dispatch from My Sick Bed
Notes from a Movie Marathon, Brought to You by COVID-19
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The Gospel According to Movieguide
Decoding the Bullshit of One of the Culture Wars' Most Insidious Operators
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Watching : Listening
Diegetic Music and Character Revelation
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Today's My Birthday. Let Me Talk to You About 'My Old Ass.'
After reading my recent essay on Paranoid Park, one of my oldest friends texted me to say, teasingly, “You’re such a sucker for coming-of-age movies…
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Three Shots, and Oh So Many Echoes: 'Paranoid Park' (2007)
How Gus Van Sant packs decades of cinematic allusions and obsessions into one deceptively simple scene
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One Perfect Scene: 'The Spectacular Now' (2013)
It's one thing to describe being drunk and in love. It's quite another to make the viewer feel it.
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Scenes I Love (From Movies I Don't): 'Babel' (2006)
Eight sublime minutes of inspired sound-image interplay nearly save a shitty film from itself.
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Reckoning with 'River's Edge' (1986)
On the moral framework of one of the 80s' best and bleakest films
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'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' (2019), Revisited
On the occasion of a recent repertory screening
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Searching for a Southern John Hughes
Have I ever seen adolescent life in the American south depicted on screen in a way consonant with my own lived experience?
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Talk Hard?: 'Pump Up the Volume' (1990)
Watching the Gen-X cult classic in a post-radio age
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