Writer/editor at Slate, seen in Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Indiewire, etc.
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure 1985
Still as great as it was when I was 12, although it also makes me wonder if the 1980s might have been the ugliest period for studio releases in movie history.
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Pee-wee's Big Holiday 2016
"You know I don't want to go anywhere or try anything new," explains the hero of "Pee-wee's Big Holiday," which has just been made available on Netflix and in a small handful of theaters. The movie, written by Reubens and Paul Rust, dictates that Paul Reubens' iconic, charcoal-suited manchild will leave his small-town home behind, encountering a wide swath of all-American oddballs en route from idyllic, anachronistic Fairville to the equally mythic New York City. But while "Big Holiday" preaches…
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975
A movie that makes you physically start because its protagonist drops a potato.
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