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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022
Wrote about this — and the problem with Marvel more broadly — for the New York Times.
Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is sitting in a Manhattan coffee shop with the woman he’s loved since the fourth grade, the winsome Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst). He gazes at her longingly. She leans in, eyes closed, for a kiss. But just as he moves to reciprocate, he freezes, sensing danger. The camera rushes forward, into an extreme close-up of Peter’s eye, the… -
The Bad Guys 2022
New York Times review: www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/movies/the-bad-guys-review.html
Glad I got to talk about DreamWorks Face in the paper of record.
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Suburbicon 2017
just because you're in some Coen brothers movies doesn't mean you can make a Coen brothers movie
