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Brief Encounters

John Semley

June 01, 2020

Rethinking inscrutability in two recent festival hits.

The Visible Man

Soraya Roberts

March 13, 2020

Invisibility and Platonic justice in the #MeToo era

No Boots Without Leather

James Wham

March 06, 2020

Cattle and capital in Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

February 14, 2020

Attack of the Bloomblob 

Against Virtuosity

John Semley

February 12, 2020

Recently, idling away an especially rainy Saturday in January, I found myself sinking a solid six hours into Sony Interactive Entertainment’s 2018 blockbuster game God of War: a stupid-violent farrago of Greek and Norse mythology notable for employing a fixed, ...

Money Is an Iron: Oscar Movies, 2020

A. S. Hamrah

February 07, 2020

Hollywood Anglophilia reached new heights in 2019 and The Two Popes is Exhibit A.

The Action is the Juice

John Semley

January 14, 2020

Uncut Gems and Dark Waters crystallize how being alive today feels.

Small Worlds

Zoë Hu

January 07, 2020

Did we really need another adaptation of "Little Women"?

The Leftovers

John Semley

December 10, 2019

In The Irishman, mob opulence is eclipsed by ugliness.

Why Clerks Still Works

Matt Hanson

December 06, 2019

Why the movie "Clerks" still has its shelf life.

Propaganda, Anti-propaganda

Joel Whitney

December 06, 2019

On The Report and the history of the CIA onscreen

You’re the Man for Us

John Semley

November 19, 2019

The un-cynical irony of Mister America and On Cinema