@reverseshot.bsky.social
Operated by Michael Koresky. A publication of @movingimagenyc.bsky.social
Reposted
For @reverseshot.bsky.social I wrote about Baby Steps and the beautiful frustration of Bennett Foddy's work reverseshot.org/features/341...
Baby Steps
The world of video gaming
reverseshot.org
January 20, 2026 at 5:02 PM
For @reverseshot.bsky.social I wrote about Baby Steps and the beautiful frustration of Bennett Foddy's work reverseshot.org/features/341...
Reposted
“Palestine has lived in my heart, certainly, my entire life.”
Alllll the way back during Sundance 2025 last January (the day David Lynch died of all days), I spoke to Cherien Dabis about her about her beautiful, epic film ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU.
Read at @reverseshot.bsky.social:
Alllll the way back during Sundance 2025 last January (the day David Lynch died of all days), I spoke to Cherien Dabis about her about her beautiful, epic film ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU.
Read at @reverseshot.bsky.social:
Cherien Dabis
This is a very profoundly intimate, personal family story. So while certain dates are very important because of historical events, I wanted the 1970s to have less of that. I wanted for us to see a sen...
reverseshot.org
January 9, 2026 at 9:14 PM
“Palestine has lived in my heart, certainly, my entire life.”
Alllll the way back during Sundance 2025 last January (the day David Lynch died of all days), I spoke to Cherien Dabis about her about her beautiful, epic film ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU.
Read at @reverseshot.bsky.social:
Alllll the way back during Sundance 2025 last January (the day David Lynch died of all days), I spoke to Cherien Dabis about her about her beautiful, epic film ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU.
Read at @reverseshot.bsky.social:
!!
Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Nonfiction
December 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
!!
Reposted
Zipping frenetically from one set piece to the next and incorporating a dizzying array of genres, Paul Thomas Anderson’s incendiary portrait of modern America, One Battle After Another, is the worthy winner of this year’s poll, writes Michael Koresky
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
And the winner is… One Battle After Another
Zipping frenetically from one set piece to the next and incorporating a dizzying array of film types – from heist gone wrong to romantic melodrama to satirical comedy to chase thriller – Paul Thomas A...
www.bfi.org.uk
December 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Zipping frenetically from one set piece to the next and incorporating a dizzying array of genres, Paul Thomas Anderson’s incendiary portrait of modern America, One Battle After Another, is the worthy winner of this year’s poll, writes Michael Koresky
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Reposted
If you and a parent (or child) ever bonded over shared love of movies, this beautiful remembrance by film critic and programmer Michael Koresky will make you all misty. It's about the experience of watching movies with his mother. Signed by the author. mzs.press/SIGNED-Films...
SIGNED Films of Endearment (Hardcover, NEW)
An Esquire Best Book About Hollywood A USA TODAY Best Book of 2021 “A lovely and loving book.”—Will Schwalbe, New York Times bestselling author of The End of Your Life Book Club
"I'm not sure I have...
mzs.press
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
If you and a parent (or child) ever bonded over shared love of movies, this beautiful remembrance by film critic and programmer Michael Koresky will make you all misty. It's about the experience of watching movies with his mother. Signed by the author. mzs.press/SIGNED-Films...
Reposted
I'm delighted that Michael invited me to do this with him. His new book Sick & Dirty is so sharp and smart, and every one of these eight movies will hold your attention--some because of the very elements that make them profoundly screwed-up, and some because they're wonderful.
QUEERSIGHTED: SICK & DIRTY — GAY CINEMA DURING THE CODE 💙 Coming to criterion channel in December!
November 20, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I'm delighted that Michael invited me to do this with him. His new book Sick & Dirty is so sharp and smart, and every one of these eight movies will hold your attention--some because of the very elements that make them profoundly screwed-up, and some because they're wonderful.
Reposted
A Few Great Pumpkins @reverseshot.bsky.social; Wesley Morris, @eshynes.bsky.social, and @robert-emmet.bsky.social on more scary movies; @fredmkaplan.bsky.social + @sshaviro.bsky.social on Kathryn Bigelow; MUBI roundtable on Radu Jude …
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
October 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A Few Great Pumpkins @reverseshot.bsky.social; Wesley Morris, @eshynes.bsky.social, and @robert-emmet.bsky.social on more scary movies; @fredmkaplan.bsky.social + @sshaviro.bsky.social on Kathryn Bigelow; MUBI roundtable on Radu Jude …
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
Reposted
Michael Koresky launches A Few Great Pumpkins XX: “This is dark, silly, but also genuinely nasty stuff, and, while keeping its horrific violence off-screen, THE BAD SEED gets under the skin in ways unlike any other movie.”
@reverseshot.bsky.social — reverseshot.org/archive/entr...
@reverseshot.bsky.social — reverseshot.org/archive/entr...
A Few Great Pumpkins XX
reverseshot.org
October 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Michael Koresky launches A Few Great Pumpkins XX: “This is dark, silly, but also genuinely nasty stuff, and, while keeping its horrific violence off-screen, THE BAD SEED gets under the skin in ways unlike any other movie.”
@reverseshot.bsky.social — reverseshot.org/archive/entr...
@reverseshot.bsky.social — reverseshot.org/archive/entr...
Reposted
The best thriller of 2025 is Geeta Gandbhir's harrowing documentary THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR.
For @reverseshot.bsky.social, I spoke with Gandbhir during #NYFF63 about subverting the inherent dehumanizing of police bodycam videos to empathetically record a community.
For @reverseshot.bsky.social, I spoke with Gandbhir during #NYFF63 about subverting the inherent dehumanizing of police bodycam videos to empathetically record a community.
Geeta Gandbhir
Once we committed to the body camera footage, we were determined to live in it. We wanted to build and recreate the world that this community existed in, which you couldn't do otherwise. So, it was ch...
reverseshot.org
October 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The best thriller of 2025 is Geeta Gandbhir's harrowing documentary THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR.
For @reverseshot.bsky.social, I spoke with Gandbhir during #NYFF63 about subverting the inherent dehumanizing of police bodycam videos to empathetically record a community.
For @reverseshot.bsky.social, I spoke with Gandbhir during #NYFF63 about subverting the inherent dehumanizing of police bodycam videos to empathetically record a community.
Reposted
happy to be back @reverseshot.bsky.social with a new installment of Event Horizon! i write on David Osit’s doc “Predators” and trace Chris Hansen’s influence on online predator hunters… reverseshot.org/features/338...
All the Predators
Looking past traditional cinema into avenues of visual media and other light-related phenomena across the online landscape�and beyond.
reverseshot.org
October 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
happy to be back @reverseshot.bsky.social with a new installment of Event Horizon! i write on David Osit’s doc “Predators” and trace Chris Hansen’s influence on online predator hunters… reverseshot.org/features/338...
Reposted
All five essays of the Reverse Shot mini-symposium on Hideo Kojima, his career, and his themes, have officially made it up. I encourage you to read through them if you ever want a journey through his work told by five unique writers.
reverseshot.org/series/12/to...
reverseshot.org/series/12/to...
October 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
All five essays of the Reverse Shot mini-symposium on Hideo Kojima, his career, and his themes, have officially made it up. I encourage you to read through them if you ever want a journey through his work told by five unique writers.
reverseshot.org/series/12/to...
reverseshot.org/series/12/to...
Adored Richard Linklater's BLUE MOON, playing this week at NYFF and releasing soon. The film uses the breakdown of Rodgers and Hart's creative partnership to tease out age-old paradoxes between art and commerce, hope and despair, commitment and compromise. My review:
reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
October 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Adored Richard Linklater's BLUE MOON, playing this week at NYFF and releasing soon. The film uses the breakdown of Rodgers and Hart's creative partnership to tease out age-old paradoxes between art and commerce, hope and despair, commitment and compromise. My review:
reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
We're in the thick of our ongoing coverage of NYFF 2025. Check out our in-depth reviews with more titles added daily.
reverseshot.org/reviews
reverseshot.org/reviews
September 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
We're in the thick of our ongoing coverage of NYFF 2025. Check out our in-depth reviews with more titles added daily.
reverseshot.org/reviews
reverseshot.org/reviews
Reposted
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is a succinct description of organizing/activism, raising a kid, or just trying to exist in this fuckin’ country. I wrote about Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest for @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
One Battle After Another
One Battle After Another unapologetically addresses the completely inexcusable injustices of contemporary American life while being incredibly funny, exciting, suspenseful, and poignant, particularly ...
reverseshot.org
September 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is a succinct description of organizing/activism, raising a kid, or just trying to exist in this fuckin’ country. I wrote about Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest for @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
The exquisite, deeply moving SUNSET SONG today at 4 p.m. at Museum of the Moving Image with star Agyness Deyn in person!
This big-screen must-see closes out the series Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past.
movingimage.org/event/sunset...
This big-screen must-see closes out the series Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past.
movingimage.org/event/sunset...
September 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The exquisite, deeply moving SUNSET SONG today at 4 p.m. at Museum of the Moving Image with star Agyness Deyn in person!
This big-screen must-see closes out the series Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past.
movingimage.org/event/sunset...
This big-screen must-see closes out the series Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past.
movingimage.org/event/sunset...
Day 3 of MoMI's Terence Davies series features a triple dose of sublime cinema: his sole documentary OF TIME AND THE CITY, Gena Rowlands in THE NEON BIBLE (in 16mm, with costar Jacob Tierney in person), and Davies's devastating final film, BENEDICTION.
movingimage.org/series/teren...
movingimage.org/series/teren...
September 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Day 3 of MoMI's Terence Davies series features a triple dose of sublime cinema: his sole documentary OF TIME AND THE CITY, Gena Rowlands in THE NEON BIBLE (in 16mm, with costar Jacob Tierney in person), and Davies's devastating final film, BENEDICTION.
movingimage.org/series/teren...
movingimage.org/series/teren...
If you don't know THE TERENCE DAVIES TRILOGY—his first 3 shorts—then you don't know Terence Davies. Some of the most indelible images you'll ever see.
Screening this Sat afternoon, once only, in imported 35mm prints at Museum of the Moving Image.
movingimage.org/event/the-te...
Screening this Sat afternoon, once only, in imported 35mm prints at Museum of the Moving Image.
movingimage.org/event/the-te...
September 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
If you don't know THE TERENCE DAVIES TRILOGY—his first 3 shorts—then you don't know Terence Davies. Some of the most indelible images you'll ever see.
Screening this Sat afternoon, once only, in imported 35mm prints at Museum of the Moving Image.
movingimage.org/event/the-te...
Screening this Sat afternoon, once only, in imported 35mm prints at Museum of the Moving Image.
movingimage.org/event/the-te...
Reposted
We're talking ROPE tomorrow with Michael Koresky on our first ever Hitchcock pod! Michael wrote about the film extensively in his latest book—Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness—which you really REALLY should get your hands on soon
Sick and Dirty
A blazingly original history celebrating the persistence of queerness onscreen, behind the camera, and between the lines during the dark days of the Hollywood P…
www.bloomsbury.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:39 AM
We're talking ROPE tomorrow with Michael Koresky on our first ever Hitchcock pod! Michael wrote about the film extensively in his latest book—Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness—which you really REALLY should get your hands on soon
Reposted
BOYS GO TO JUPITER, with its timelessly melancholic portrait of youth situated in a ravaged economy, is one of my fave films of the year. I talked to Julian Glander about how Blender changed his life, eggs, and being on Jeopardy! for @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/interviews/e...
Julian Glander (Boys Go to Jupiter)
One takeaway I hope people get from the movie is that through all of this rot and through everything, there are things that are worth paying attention to, and they're happening all around you. And I t...
reverseshot.org
August 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
BOYS GO TO JUPITER, with its timelessly melancholic portrait of youth situated in a ravaged economy, is one of my fave films of the year. I talked to Julian Glander about how Blender changed his life, eggs, and being on Jeopardy! for @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/interviews/e...
Reposted
if you have not seen the House of Mirth, then you haven't seen one of the best movies of the last 25 years
Excited to announce in-person guests celebrating the great Terence Davies at MoMI in Sept: Cynthia Nixon (A QUIET PASSION), Agyness Deyn (SUNSET SONG), Jacob Tierney (THE NEON BIBLE), and Sony Pictures Classics' Michael Barker (THE HOUSE OF MIRTH). More info here:
movingimage.org/series/teren...
movingimage.org/series/teren...
August 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
if you have not seen the House of Mirth, then you haven't seen one of the best movies of the last 25 years
Excited to announce in-person guests celebrating the great Terence Davies at MoMI in Sept: Cynthia Nixon (A QUIET PASSION), Agyness Deyn (SUNSET SONG), Jacob Tierney (THE NEON BIBLE), and Sony Pictures Classics' Michael Barker (THE HOUSE OF MIRTH). More info here:
movingimage.org/series/teren...
movingimage.org/series/teren...
August 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Excited to announce in-person guests celebrating the great Terence Davies at MoMI in Sept: Cynthia Nixon (A QUIET PASSION), Agyness Deyn (SUNSET SONG), Jacob Tierney (THE NEON BIBLE), and Sony Pictures Classics' Michael Barker (THE HOUSE OF MIRTH). More info here:
movingimage.org/series/teren...
movingimage.org/series/teren...
Reposted
I wrote about the classic queer film TAXI ZUM KLO for Reverse Shot ( @reverseshot.bsky.social ). It's currently playing at The Metrograph in NYC and you should definitely go watch it if you can.
reverseshot.org/features/334...
reverseshot.org/features/334...
Taxi zum Klo
This column focuses on the dynamic or below-the-surface nature of queer representation in international cinema.
reverseshot.org
August 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I wrote about the classic queer film TAXI ZUM KLO for Reverse Shot ( @reverseshot.bsky.social ). It's currently playing at The Metrograph in NYC and you should definitely go watch it if you can.
reverseshot.org/features/334...
reverseshot.org/features/334...
Come to Museum of the Moving Image in September to celebrate one of the greatest artists the cinema has ever known. Announcing the complete retrospective Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past:
movingimage.org/series/teren...
movingimage.org/series/teren...
Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past – Museum of the Moving Image
Join us in celebrating the life and career of Terence Davies with this complete retrospective, the first in the U.S. since his death. From the unfathomably moving, aesthetically revelatory autobiograp...
movingimage.org
August 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Come to Museum of the Moving Image in September to celebrate one of the greatest artists the cinema has ever known. Announcing the complete retrospective Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past:
movingimage.org/series/teren...
movingimage.org/series/teren...
Reposted
For @reverseshot.bsky.social I talked about alienation, sigma cinema, and the master Kiyoshi Kurosawa's new movie Cloud reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
Cloud
Like Pulse, the conceit imagines a nightmare scenario in which an aspect of technologically modulated human interaction breaches the borders of reality�here, online harassment.
reverseshot.org
July 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
For @reverseshot.bsky.social I talked about alienation, sigma cinema, and the master Kiyoshi Kurosawa's new movie Cloud reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
Reposted
I’ve been an avid reader of Reverse Shot and its marvellous coterie of writers for years, so it’s a honest thrill to make my debut there, on Ari Aster’s prickly, perverse, brilliant EDDINGTON. (Thank you to Michael Koresky for being a dream editor.)
Pleased to have the estimable @guylodge.bsky.social on Ari Aster's savage and brilliant doomscroll western EDDINGTON:
reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
July 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’ve been an avid reader of Reverse Shot and its marvellous coterie of writers for years, so it’s a honest thrill to make my debut there, on Ari Aster’s prickly, perverse, brilliant EDDINGTON. (Thank you to Michael Koresky for being a dream editor.)