film commentary
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.
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.
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.
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!).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.











