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Underrated/Overlooked: Joel Potrykus on Dragged Across Concrete

It's not exactly fashionable to love S. Craig Zahler's movies, but dammit if Joel Potrykus doesn't walk to the beat of his own drum.

January 28, 2020

Underrated/Overlooked: Rodney Ascher on Nicolas Winding Refn’s Too Old to Die Young

Seemingly not very many people saw Nicolas Winding Refn’s noirish Amazon Prime series, but Rodney Ascher did and has a whole lot to say about it.

January 27, 2020

Best of 2019: Aisha Tyler on Julius Onah’s Luce

The actress-writer-director spotlights one of the movies that stood out during a particularly strong year for cinema.

January 16, 2020

Best of 2019: Trey Edward Shults on Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse

The writer-director of Waves on his favorite movie of the year (which just happens to be by a friend of his!).

January 15, 2020

Underrated/Overlooked: Katherine Dieckmann on Give Me Liberty

The writer-director of Strange Weather on Kirill Mikhanovsky's comedy drama, one of her favorite movies of 2019.

January 14, 2020

Underrated/Overlooked: SJ Chiro on Atlantics

The writer-director makes the case for Mati Diop's unique Cannes-winning debut feature being among the very best movies of the year.

January 13, 2020

Catharsis in Disaster: A Spiritual Defense of Cats

Screenwriter and editor Benjamin Shearn on why we should all appreciate the rare, unifying glory that is a bad movie of this magnitude.

January 9, 2020

Best of 2019: Catherine Hardwicke Talks Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite

As an architect and a filmmaker, Hardwicke shares her love of one of the most acclaimed movies of the past year.

January 9, 2020

Underrated/Overlooked: Mark Rappaport on The Mountain

Mark Rappaport bangs a drum for Rick Alverson's '50s-set drama starring Jeff Goldblum as a wandering lobotomist.

January 7, 2020

Revisited: Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood is … My God, What a Movie!

Tarantino's much anticipated ninth film is his best so far, and also arguably the greatest movie ever about the movies.

December 26, 2019

Best of the 2010s: Craig Wedren’s Favorite Film of the Decade is Mandy

The former Shudder To Think singer and current film composer wants to work with Panos Cosmatos.

December 26, 2019

Revisited: Stephen Cone (Princess Cyd) Talks His Favorite Thanksgiving Movie, Home for the Holidays

Writer-director Stephen Cone looks back on a movie that changed how he saw cinema, and himself.

November 27, 2019