Amy Nicholson
@theamynicholson.bsky.social
Film critic of the LA Times and host of the podcast Unspooled.
Say hello with your favorite movie and why -- or a picture of a standard poodle.
IG/Letterboxd: @theamynicholson
Say hello with your favorite movie and why -- or a picture of a standard poodle.
IG/Letterboxd: @theamynicholson
Shout-out to the scientist at the La Brea tar pits who dressed up as a volcano for an outdoor screening of VOLCANO.
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January 17, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Shout-out to the scientist at the La Brea tar pits who dressed up as a volcano for an outdoor screening of VOLCANO.
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A love letter to my favorite city -- and a salute to my first apartment, just two blocks from the bowling alley in THE BIG LEBOWSKI 🎳
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I didn't just move to Los Angeles. I stepped into a movie
Reflecting on a city that beguiled her from the screen, our critic Amy Nicholson kicks off our celebration of the 101 best L.A. movies.
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January 17, 2026 at 5:52 PM
A love letter to my favorite city -- and a salute to my first apartment, just two blocks from the bowling alley in THE BIG LEBOWSKI 🎳
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Let's go hunt wolverines
January 16, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Let's go hunt wolverines
Why tease? Our 101st pick was BABYLON and I'll defend it to the death.
January 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Why tease? Our 101st pick was BABYLON and I'll defend it to the death.
28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE is gruesomely both low and highbrow, the movie equivalent of Jell-O wrestling an anthropology professor at Burning Man, which may have been the inspiration for Ralph Fiennes’ spry and mesmerizing Dr. Ian Kelson
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Review: In smart splatter horror ‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,' faith and science crawl from the muck
Director Nia DaCosta chases "Hedda" with the fourth entry in the "28 Days Later" series, boasting rampaging performances by Ralph Fiennes and "Sinners" star Jack O'Connell.
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January 15, 2026 at 6:26 PM
28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE is gruesomely both low and highbrow, the movie equivalent of Jell-O wrestling an anthropology professor at Burning Man, which may have been the inspiration for Ralph Fiennes’ spry and mesmerizing Dr. Ian Kelson
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I was 🤙stoked🤙 write about seven of my favorite LA movies for this list: SUNSET BLVD, COLLATERAL, SHORT CUTS, STRANGE DAYS, SWINGERS, VALLEY GIRL, and POINT BREAK 🌊 Excited to dig into the whole thing—check it out! www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
The 101 best Los Angeles movies
Our list of the 101 best Los Angeles movies is as sprawling as the city, and includes "Chinatown," "Clueless," "Blade Runner," "Mulholland Drive," "Heat," "Pulp Fiction," "The Big Lebowski" and "La La...
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January 15, 2026 at 4:17 PM
I was 🤙stoked🤙 write about seven of my favorite LA movies for this list: SUNSET BLVD, COLLATERAL, SHORT CUTS, STRANGE DAYS, SWINGERS, VALLEY GIRL, and POINT BREAK 🌊 Excited to dig into the whole thing—check it out! www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
MY GOODNESS JUST LOOK AT THIS ART
January 15, 2026 at 5:03 PM
MY GOODNESS JUST LOOK AT THIS ART
Get that vengeance, girl
January 11, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Get that vengeance, girl
Next Friday! Dynasty Typewriter salutes Rob Reiner.
Enjoy the THE PRINCESS BRIDE with a crowd -- and to honor his advocacy for early childhood education, a portion of proceeds will be donated to Everychild Foundation ❤️
Enjoy the THE PRINCESS BRIDE with a crowd -- and to honor his advocacy for early childhood education, a portion of proceeds will be donated to Everychild Foundation ❤️
January 10, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Next Friday! Dynasty Typewriter salutes Rob Reiner.
Enjoy the THE PRINCESS BRIDE with a crowd -- and to honor his advocacy for early childhood education, a portion of proceeds will be donated to Everychild Foundation ❤️
Enjoy the THE PRINCESS BRIDE with a crowd -- and to honor his advocacy for early childhood education, a portion of proceeds will be donated to Everychild Foundation ❤️
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Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
One chimpanzee with a typewriter could pound out the script for PRIMATE in an hour.
I’m not foaming at the mouth over the death of cinema or what have you. Honestly, the kills are great. The problem is the dead space between them.
But two actors have real promise!
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I’m not foaming at the mouth over the death of cinema or what have you. Honestly, the kills are great. The problem is the dead space between them.
But two actors have real promise!
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Review: The giddily unevolved gorefest 'Primate' makes humanity look like a species in decline
The team behind the Mandy Moore shark flick '47 Meters Down' returns with a murderous monkey and surprisingly good acting by Oscar winner Troy Kotsur and starlet Jess Alexander.
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January 9, 2026 at 8:19 PM
One chimpanzee with a typewriter could pound out the script for PRIMATE in an hour.
I’m not foaming at the mouth over the death of cinema or what have you. Honestly, the kills are great. The problem is the dead space between them.
But two actors have real promise!
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
I’m not foaming at the mouth over the death of cinema or what have you. Honestly, the kills are great. The problem is the dead space between them.
But two actors have real promise!
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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on tuesday night i held several of the world's greatest filmmakers hostage for a 15-minute speech about what critics & artists owe to each other in the age of rapid enshittification. i'm not entirely sure why i did that.
anyway you can read it here if you want to: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...
anyway you can read it here if you want to: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...
January 9, 2026 at 6:23 PM
on tuesday night i held several of the world's greatest filmmakers hostage for a 15-minute speech about what critics & artists owe to each other in the age of rapid enshittification. i'm not entirely sure why i did that.
anyway you can read it here if you want to: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...
anyway you can read it here if you want to: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...
Gus Van Sant's latest is about a 1977 man who took his mortgage broker hostage.
Bill Skarsgård plays the role somewhere between a soapbox preacher and a SCOOBY-DOO episode that imagines Shaggy unmasking a money-grubbing bad guy and threatening to beat him to death.
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Bill Skarsgård plays the role somewhere between a soapbox preacher and a SCOOBY-DOO episode that imagines Shaggy unmasking a money-grubbing bad guy and threatening to beat him to death.
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Review: 'Dead Man's Wire' faithfully recreates a TV hostage standoff but avoids the messy why
Gus Van Sant continues the mass-media-meets-violence conversation of 'To Die For,' but doesn't have much to say about this true-life gunman who blasted his rage on the news.
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January 8, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Gus Van Sant's latest is about a 1977 man who took his mortgage broker hostage.
Bill Skarsgård plays the role somewhere between a soapbox preacher and a SCOOBY-DOO episode that imagines Shaggy unmasking a money-grubbing bad guy and threatening to beat him to death.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Bill Skarsgård plays the role somewhere between a soapbox preacher and a SCOOBY-DOO episode that imagines Shaggy unmasking a money-grubbing bad guy and threatening to beat him to death.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
The one arthouse theater in my hometown of San Antonio closed during the pandemic.
My mom texted that she wants to go see something Oscar-y and the only option in the 7th biggest city in the country is MARTY SUPREME (which might be too much -- she's a TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE type.)
Such a bummer!
My mom texted that she wants to go see something Oscar-y and the only option in the 7th biggest city in the country is MARTY SUPREME (which might be too much -- she's a TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE type.)
Such a bummer!
December 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The one arthouse theater in my hometown of San Antonio closed during the pandemic.
My mom texted that she wants to go see something Oscar-y and the only option in the 7th biggest city in the country is MARTY SUPREME (which might be too much -- she's a TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE type.)
Such a bummer!
My mom texted that she wants to go see something Oscar-y and the only option in the 7th biggest city in the country is MARTY SUPREME (which might be too much -- she's a TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE type.)
Such a bummer!
You won’t see a movie with better music and worse dialogue this holiday season than the bizarrely charming SONG SUNG BLUE
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Review: 'Song Sung Blue,' starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson, is corny comfort cinema with bittersweet notes
Filmmaker Craig Brewer of 'Hustle & Flow' returns with a quirky music biopic about a Neil Diamond cover band that opened for Pearl Jam only to be stricken with bad luck.
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December 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
You won’t see a movie with better music and worse dialogue this holiday season than the bizarrely charming SONG SUNG BLUE
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A Christmas present for myself: EDWARD SCISSORHANDS custom cookie cutters.
(Got the heart, too!)
(Got the heart, too!)
December 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A Christmas present for myself: EDWARD SCISSORHANDS custom cookie cutters.
(Got the heart, too!)
(Got the heart, too!)
MARTY SUPREME is a biography of our national ego.
Weigh his selfish desires against any other character’s needs and he's as hollow as a ping pong ball.
It really is all about his balls. Their embossing reads: “Marty Supreme — Made in America.”
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Weigh his selfish desires against any other character’s needs and he's as hollow as a ping pong ball.
It really is all about his balls. Their embossing reads: “Marty Supreme — Made in America.”
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Review: 'Marty Supreme' spins ping pong into a gaspingly funny critique of the American hustle
Writer-director Josh Safdie follows up "Uncut Gems" with a loosely true post-WWII table tennis caper in which paddles and egos clash on a global stage.
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December 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
MARTY SUPREME is a biography of our national ego.
Weigh his selfish desires against any other character’s needs and he's as hollow as a ping pong ball.
It really is all about his balls. Their embossing reads: “Marty Supreme — Made in America.”
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Weigh his selfish desires against any other character’s needs and he's as hollow as a ping pong ball.
It really is all about his balls. Their embossing reads: “Marty Supreme — Made in America.”
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
🎁🎄Happy Holidays 🎁🎄
December 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
🎁🎄Happy Holidays 🎁🎄
We've celebrated so many of Rob Reiner's movies over the course of the show.
Let's hail the man himself.
Let's hail the man himself.
December 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
We've celebrated so many of Rob Reiner's movies over the course of the show.
Let's hail the man himself.
Let's hail the man himself.
AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH
James Cameron’s daredevil creative risk — is his insistence on treating the impossible like it’s mundane, like the sight of all 9-foot-5 inches of Quaritch casually chilling out in a hoodie.
(And Oona Chaplin's new villainess is scorching)
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James Cameron’s daredevil creative risk — is his insistence on treating the impossible like it’s mundane, like the sight of all 9-foot-5 inches of Quaritch casually chilling out in a hoodie.
(And Oona Chaplin's new villainess is scorching)
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Review: 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' has dynamite villains and dialogue that’s surf-bro hysterical
Bad guys Oona Chaplin and Stephen Lang add spark to James Cameron's third dazzling and surreal dispatch from Pandora, one that restates much of what's come before.
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December 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH
James Cameron’s daredevil creative risk — is his insistence on treating the impossible like it’s mundane, like the sight of all 9-foot-5 inches of Quaritch casually chilling out in a hoodie.
(And Oona Chaplin's new villainess is scorching)
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
James Cameron’s daredevil creative risk — is his insistence on treating the impossible like it’s mundane, like the sight of all 9-foot-5 inches of Quaritch casually chilling out in a hoodie.
(And Oona Chaplin's new villainess is scorching)
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
“When I die,” Rob Reiner once joked to an interviewer, “I want my tombstone to read, ‘Now I’m in this place!’”
That day came too soon. But over his career, Reiner never stayed put, bobbing and weaving and directing at least one of everyone’s favorite movies.
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That day came too soon. But over his career, Reiner never stayed put, bobbing and weaving and directing at least one of everyone’s favorite movies.
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Appreciation: Rob Reiner found a way to please everyone — by going his own way
Reiner made a perfect rom-com ('When Harry Met Sally…'), a perfect thriller ('Misery'), a perfect fantasy ('The Princess Bride') and never wanted to be pigeonholed.
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December 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“When I die,” Rob Reiner once joked to an interviewer, “I want my tombstone to read, ‘Now I’m in this place!’”
That day came too soon. But over his career, Reiner never stayed put, bobbing and weaving and directing at least one of everyone’s favorite movies.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
That day came too soon. But over his career, Reiner never stayed put, bobbing and weaving and directing at least one of everyone’s favorite movies.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Just won the auction for a sacred artifact:
Roger Ebert's script for BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
Roger Ebert's script for BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
December 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Just won the auction for a sacred artifact:
Roger Ebert's script for BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
Roger Ebert's script for BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
It's kind of a big deal
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It's kind of a big deal
Always wanted to go to a World Cup match. Bought random tickets before the teams were drawn and now I know it's gonna be Belgium vs Iran babyyyy!
Are vuvuzelas still a thing? I've got two.
Are vuvuzelas still a thing? I've got two.
December 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Always wanted to go to a World Cup match. Bought random tickets before the teams were drawn and now I know it's gonna be Belgium vs Iran babyyyy!
Are vuvuzelas still a thing? I've got two.
Are vuvuzelas still a thing? I've got two.