The Northman — An Enrapturing Viking Epic

The Northman is an impressive achievement and a captivating experience. 

The Secrets of Dumbledore — The Wizarding World is Boring Now

It’s a weird experience to watch the Fantastic Beasts movies as a big fan of Harry Potter and the Wizarding World

Ambulance — Michael Bay Can Be Earnest?!

Each one of our main trio is treated as a real human being with real human complexities. That’s all I want. And it doesn’t hurt that the action is awesome too.

The Lost City — We Want Good Original Movies

Maybe when we say we want more original movies, we should amend it to say we want more good original movies. Unfortunately, The Lost City is not that.

Everything Everywhere All at Once — A Multiverse of Emotions

It’s a towering, all-time cinematic, emotional, and human achievement that embraces the chaos and transforms it into true, human order.

Man of Steel — Presenting Humanity’s Ideal

In this video essay, I explore the ways in which Man of Steel presents a moral ideal through the character of Superman.

Ranking the 2021 Movie Year

Here’s my countdown of every movie I saw in 2021

American Underdog, The Night House, The Alpinist, Nine Days, & Benedetta — What You Might Like

This is a subpar, but still not terrible family film with good values inside

Don’t Look Up — An Interesting Contradiction

The intense earnestness on display in the final sequence is enough for me to forgive its many other missteps

The Matrix: Resurrections — How to do a Legacy Sequel

This is a Wachowski movie through and through — no one else could have made this. But I’m eternally grateful that she did