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  • Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
  • Foxhole
  • The Sanctity of Space
  • The Bad Guys
  • Moonshot

NYT reviews

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Movies I’ve reviewed or otherwise written about for the New York Times

  • The Worst Person in the World
  • Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry
  • The History of the Atlanta Falcons
  • Annette
  • Undine

Best Films of 2021

10 films 7 Edit

My ten favourite features, 2021.

Still need to see the PTA and Drive My Car

  • The Heart of the World
  • The Silent Partner
  • Begone Dull Care
  • Lonely Boy
  • Wavelength

Canadian Cinema Top 10

10 films 10 1 Edit

For National Canadian Cinema Day

  • The History of the Seattle Mariners
  • Uncut Gems
  • La Flor
  • Twin Peaks: The Return
  • Toni Erdmann

Notes Toward a Personal Canon

113 films 73 2 Edit

essential cinema // one per year

composed on a layover in an airport in berlin

  • A Month in Thailand
  • Lockout
  • The Miners' Hymns
  • Sleepless Night
  • The Last Time I Saw Macao

Under-seen 2010s Heat

50 films 14 Edit

50 certified bangers from the decade that was.

  • Nerve
  • Cam
  • Spree
  • Unfriended: Dark Web

cloutcore

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going extreme on the livestream

  • Billy Elliot
  • Race
  • Kes
  • Quadrophenia
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Movies My Dad Loved, Sometimes Inexplicably, Always Unpredictably

30 films 26 1 Edit

You really just never knew what he might call me up to rave about.

  • La Flor
  • Uncut Gems
  • The Irishman
  • Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
  • Joker

The Best Films of 2019

10 films 13 3 Edit

New York theatrical premiere dates, as usual.

  • The Invitation
  • Unfriended
  • Sinister
  • Detention
  • Halloween II

Notes Toward a Horror Canon

50 films 15 1 Edit

spoopy season

  • Rocketman
  • Rio 2
  • Little
  • The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
  • Bohemian Rhapsody

Movies I Have Watched This Year Almost In Their Entirety, Without Sound, On the Seat-Back Screens of Passengers Sitting Across From Me On Planes

6 films 15 Edit

been travelling a lot

  • A Star Is Born
  • Let the Sunshine In
  • Monrovia, Indiana
  • Mission: Impossible - Fallout
  • The Day After

The Best Films of 2018

10 films 9 Edit

My favourite features of 2018, based on New York City theatrical release dates.

  • Twin Peaks: The Return
  • Dunkirk
  • Phantom Thread
  • Song to Song
  • Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

The Best Films of 2017

10 films 22 1 Edit

My favourite films of 2017, based on New York City theatrical release dates (with one self-explanatory exception).