L’amant d’un jourDirected by Philippe Garrel
BlindspottingDirected by Carlos López Estrada
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BooksKristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney (I cannot believe I read this in 2018; it feels like decades ago)
Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Morte...
Phantom Thread, the new film from There Will Be Blood director Paul Thomas Anderson, leaves such a singular impression that it invites all the familiar descriptions: it’s hauntingly beautiful, achingly...
I liked most of the movies I saw in 2017, so don’t take it too much to heart if your faves aren’t here. As usual, I’m trying to pull off a tricky balancing act between acknowledging the...
Books[Don’t judge my potentially very basic taste here! My early 20s have ended up becoming a period of reading things I probably would have read as a teenager or earlier if I hadn’t been playing...
Homer and his successors described Odysseus as polytropos, in reference both to his boundless craftiness and to the literal “many turns” he took on his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after...
Columbus, the first feature film from video essayist Kogonada (the editor of popular supercuts of Wes Anderson and Stanley Kubrick movies), takes its name from a small city in Indiana known, if at all,...
Because I’m currently reading Sarah Ruden’s new translation of St. Augustine’s Confessions (out this week from Modern Library), and also because I seem to have made the acquaintance...
Depending on whom you ask, The Lost City of Z, the new movie from American independent filmmaker James Gray, is many things: a straightforward Amazonian adventure story about the early 20th-century British...
The past decade of movie-going has witnessed a startling evolution in the passive-aggressive pre-show public service announcement. Those once-gentle reminders to turn off electronic devices during the...
Listen closely and you’ll hear a storm of squabbling voices rolling in just over the horizon. They’re not debating politics, but rather Song to Song, the new movie by Terrence Malick now opening...
What all this lavish praise doesn’t explain is why, precisely, the hand-drawn aesthetic matters for the particular story being told
The Oscars are this Sunday and if, unlike me, you haven’t been using the lunacy of the past year’s news cycle to excuse yourself to the cinema at every opportunity, you may be wondering what...
(That’s the color of the walls of Chiron’s mother’s bedroom in Moonlight.)
It’s time once again for that hallowed, year-end...
BooksPride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
The Death of Adam, Gilead, and When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson
The World's Last Night, The Great Divorce,...
Aquarius, the new film from Brazilian critic-turned-director Kleber Mendonça Filho, sells the battle for redevelopment of an apartment complex in Recife, Brazil as nothing less than a battle...
The Girl on the Train, the bestselling book by British journalist-turned-novelist Paula Hawkins, deserves a much better adaptation than the movie that’s just arrived in theaters bearing its name....
Imagine a time when young people formed their relationships through lazy hours of aimless talk, not with any help from the omnipresence of smartphone screens but actually face to face with one another.
It...
It’s a good time for faith-based films in America. No, I’m not referring to the ghastly God’s Not Dead 2, but rather to the indie sci-fi movie of the moment, Midnight Special. A Texas-set...
Hollywood loves to celebrate itself and its culture of excess, but every now and then an insider comes along with an exposé of the dark side of Tinseltown’s flashy exterior. Throughout film...
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