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Nov 6, 2025
ONCE I WAS TRYING TO EXPLAIN my theory of a “perfect” movie and how it differed from “the best” movies. The Godfather, Citizen Kane, There Will...
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Sep 2, 2025
In his new book, Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies, Bruce Handy highlights Pauline Kael’s pan of American Graffiti, one of the...
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Aug 25, 2025
Chronologically,1 Americana is bookended by Paul Walter Hauser’s Lefty Ledbetter delivering a wedding proposal. “People shouldn’t be alone. People should...
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Mar 10, 2025
Parasite, 2020’s Best Picture winner, is director Bong Joon Ho’s second-best film about the depredations of capitalism.
Don’t get me wrong: Parasite’s a...
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Jan 6, 2025
Sometimes I go back and look at my old best-of lists to see if they hold up. I would humbly suggest that my 2014 list was pretty good. Interstellar was there (loved my...
Nov 6, 2025ONCE I WAS TRYING TO EXPLAIN my theory of a “perfect” movie and how it differed from “the best” movies. The Godfather, Citizen Kane, There Will...
Sep 2, 2025In his new book, Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies, Bruce Handy highlights Pauline Kael’s pan of American Graffiti, one of the...
Aug 25, 2025Chronologically,1 Americana is bookended by Paul Walter Hauser’s Lefty Ledbetter delivering a wedding proposal. “People shouldn’t be alone. People should...