About Last Night... (1986)

This David Mamet classic represents just about the most satisfying 2 hours you could spend watching adult characters fall in and out of love. The musical montages, the social misfit sidekicks, the devotion to the comedy of gender irreconcilabilities, and the melodramatic... More

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Pixar Short Films Collection - Vol. 1 (2007)

For me, it's all about Boundin', a perfect music-cutesy animal experience that puts me in a good mood simply at my recollection of its existence. I focus on a different little animal or object every time I watch it, and I have yet to grow tired of the rhyming lyrical... More

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500 Days of Summer (2009)

I recall a passage in, I think, Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow's excellent novel, in which a character or the narrator remarks on the influence of movies and fictions on how people treat their feelings and how they are expected to act and react at moments of their lives... More

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Body of Lies (2008)

I was wary of viewing a new Ridley Scott flick, but this movie is technically virtually flawless. Though I’m not convinced the CIA has the kind of responsive and clear video surveillance capabilities on display here, the spy games and action sequences are believable and... More

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Favorites and Bests

How easily we conflate the idea of "greatest movies" with the feeling of "favorite movies," how unabashedly unashamed we are never to make the distinction! We even insist that they are indeed the same! // I don't know which is which myself sometimes,...

1. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
2. Die Hard (1988)
3. The Incredibles (2004)
4. Coming to America (1988)
5. Woodstock (1970)

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Task & Purpose

It is important to note that, in film criticism, the critic’s first task is to watch* the film. If we are to regard cinema as a field of art worthy of the same lasting, meaningful consideration that has long been enjoyed by, for... More

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