It took me a bit longer than usual, but I made it to 100 films seen in early July. While there are still a few big ones I need to catch up on (Inside Out 2; A Quiet Place Day One), I feel fairly confident sharing what I've appreciated so far this year...and a couple I'm excited audiences will get to ...

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Review: THE ZONE OF INTEREST
It may sound like an unlikely endorsement for a film, but stay with me here: The Zone of Interest will make you want to puke from discomfort and anxiety. Or at least, that's the reaction I had for ...
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Review: ALL OF US STRANGERS
There's a magic to writer/director Andrew Haigh's All of Us Strangers, the kind that sneaks up slowly at first before becoming so powerful it's impossible to ignore its pull. A metaphysical romance ...
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Year in Review: The Best Films of 2023
As another year draws to a close, I spent an evening enjoying one of my favorite year-end traditions: looking back at all the films I'd seen in the last twelve months (thanks, Letterboxd!) and ...

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Review: THE ZONE OF INTEREST
It may sound like an unlikely endorsement for a film, but stay with me here: The Zone of Interest will make you want to puke from discomfort and anxiety. Or at least, that's the reaction I had for most of Jonathan Glazer's 105-minute experiment in art that challenges every sense of decorum and ...

Review: ALL OF US STRANGERS
There's a magic to writer/director Andrew Haigh's All of Us Strangers, the kind that sneaks up slowly at first before becoming so powerful it's impossible to ignore its pull. A metaphysical romance and family drama centered on Adam (Andrew Scott), a screenwriter processing the enduring grief of ...

Year in Review: The Best Films of 2023
As another year draws to a close, I spent an evening enjoying one of my favorite year-end traditions: looking back at all the films I'd seen in the last twelve months (thanks, Letterboxd!) and deciding which of the more than 220 (roughly 227 this year, a massive increase from 2022's flimsy 167 ...

Review: THE COLOR PURPLE
Since Alice Walker's The Color Purple was first published in 1982, it has been adapted into a film (in 1985, directed by Steven Spielberg), a stage musical (in 2005, which ran for three years and toured the country), another musical (a 2015 revival of the original, which ran about half as long but ...
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