Thomas Burchfield
@thomburchfield.bsky.social
Book and film critic at Medium, author of two novels and several short stories and screenplays.
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Reviews of Hamnet, The Westerner, Hijack, Season One, and My Best Girl, starring Mary Pickford.
Reviews of Hamnet, The Westerner, Hijack, Season One, and My Best Girl, starring Mary Pickford.
Capsule Reviews: Hamnet, The Westerner, My Best Girl, and Hijack
Brief reviews of movies and TV shows, past and present, that I believe to be worth your time (with one exception)
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February 5, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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Reviews of Hamnet, The Westerner, Hijack, Season One, and My Best Girl, starring Mary Pickford.
Reviews of Hamnet, The Westerner, Hijack, Season One, and My Best Girl, starring Mary Pickford.
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Reviews of Hamnet, The Westerner, Hijack, Season One, and My Best Girl, starring Mary Pickford.
Reviews of Hamnet, The Westerner, Hijack, Season One, and My Best Girl, starring Mary Pickford.
Capsule Reviews: Hamnet, The Westerner, My Best Girl, and Hijack
Brief reviews of movies and TV shows, past and present, that I believe to be worth your time (with one exception)
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February 5, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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Reviews of Hamnet, The Westerner, Hijack, Season One, and My Best Girl, starring Mary Pickford.
Reviews of Hamnet, The Westerner, Hijack, Season One, and My Best Girl, starring Mary Pickford.
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How Russian military intelligence is recruiting young people online to carry out espionage, arson, and other attacks across Europe. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Inside Russia’s Secret Campaign of Sabotage in Europe
How Russian military intelligence is recruiting young people online to carry out espionage, arson, and other attacks across the Continent.
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February 4, 2026 at 8:00 PM
How Russian military intelligence is recruiting young people online to carry out espionage, arson, and other attacks across Europe. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites
February 4, 2026 at 4:07 AM
one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites
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Reviews of Hamnet, The Westerner, Hijack, Season One, and My Best Girl, starring Mary Pickford.
Reviews of Hamnet, The Westerner, Hijack, Season One, and My Best Girl, starring Mary Pickford.
Capsule Reviews: Hamnet, The Westerner, My Best Girl, and Hijack
Brief reviews of movies and TV shows, past and present, that I believe to be worth your time (with one exception)
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February 2, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Reviews of Hamnet, The Westerner, Hijack, Season One, and My Best Girl, starring Mary Pickford.
Reviews of Hamnet, The Westerner, Hijack, Season One, and My Best Girl, starring Mary Pickford.
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Good reminder from service this morning (Micah): “what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”
February 1, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Good reminder from service this morning (Micah): “what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”
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Reviews of Hamnet, The Westerner, Hijack, Season One, and My Best Girl, starring Mary Pickford.
Reviews of Hamnet, The Westerner, Hijack, Season One, and My Best Girl, starring Mary Pickford.
Capsule Reviews: Hamnet, The Westerner, My Best Girl, and Hijack
Brief reviews of movies and TV shows, past and present, that I believe to be worth your time (with one exception)
fanfare.pub
February 2, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Reviews of Hamnet, The Westerner, Hijack, Season One, and My Best Girl, starring Mary Pickford.
Reviews of Hamnet, The Westerner, Hijack, Season One, and My Best Girl, starring Mary Pickford.
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
A review of the recent Netflix series Death by Lightning along with a look at the history behind it:
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Factual Fictions: ‘Death by Lightning’ Strikes Home
Excellent acting and reasonable fidelity to history mark this absorbing series about the murder of a nearly forgotten US President
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January 21, 2026 at 6:08 PM
A review of the recent Netflix series Death by Lightning along with a look at the history behind it:
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My latest batch of reviews at Medium. It Was Just an Accident was the best of them.
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Capsule Reviews: Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man, Pluribus, and More
Brief reviews at some of the best films and TV series I’ve seen in the last month
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January 15, 2026 at 4:31 PM
My latest batch of reviews at Medium. It Was Just an Accident was the best of them.
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My latest batch of reviews at Medium. It Was Just an Accident was the best of them.
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Capsule Reviews: Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man, Pluribus, and More
Brief reviews at some of the best films and TV series I’ve seen in the last month
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January 15, 2026 at 4:31 PM
My latest batch of reviews at Medium. It Was Just an Accident was the best of them.
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I just published Capsule Reviews: Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man, Pluribus, and More fanfare.pub/capsule-revi...
Capsule Reviews: Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man, Pluribus, and More
Brief reviews at some of the best films and TV series I’ve seen in the last month
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January 14, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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Hijack Season One:
By the fourth episode, the suspension bridge of disbelief starts to sag under the traffic of mounting implausibility before the cables snap. There's such a thing as asking us to believe too much. The show end on its knees begging for our trust.
By the fourth episode, the suspension bridge of disbelief starts to sag under the traffic of mounting implausibility before the cables snap. There's such a thing as asking us to believe too much. The show end on its knees begging for our trust.
January 13, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Hijack Season One:
By the fourth episode, the suspension bridge of disbelief starts to sag under the traffic of mounting implausibility before the cables snap. There's such a thing as asking us to believe too much. The show end on its knees begging for our trust.
By the fourth episode, the suspension bridge of disbelief starts to sag under the traffic of mounting implausibility before the cables snap. There's such a thing as asking us to believe too much. The show end on its knees begging for our trust.
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Just gonna throw this out there that no book is more prescient for the times we face. It’s not hyperbole to say that the similarities to right now are chilling. You won’t vote your way out of this with a spineless opposition party and this is going to end very badly for many, many people.
January 5, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Just gonna throw this out there that no book is more prescient for the times we face. It’s not hyperbole to say that the similarities to right now are chilling. You won’t vote your way out of this with a spineless opposition party and this is going to end very badly for many, many people.
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Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York
January 2, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York
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Perfectly perfect in every way.
Gavin Newsom Just One-Upped Trump's 'Perfect' MRI Results With A Trolling Memo From His Own 'Doctor'
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January 1, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Perfectly perfect in every way.
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The most naive man in the world finds two million dollars in his garbage can. The most evil man in the universe wants it back. Alfred Hitchcock meets Sergio Leone in this wild darkly comic thriller about a man so blind only evil can make him see.
The most naive man in the world finds two million dollars in his garbage can. The most evil man in the universe wants it back. Alfred Hitchcock meets Sergio Leone in this wild darkly comic thriller about a man so blind only evil can make him see.
Now Speaks the Devil|eBook
Some men are so blind, only Evil can make them see. Chip Adams may be nearing his forties, but the world looks the same as it did when he was a kid. He lives in a sheltered neighborhood in a San Fran...
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December 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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The most naive man in the world finds two million dollars in his garbage can. The most evil man in the universe wants it back. Alfred Hitchcock meets Sergio Leone in this wild darkly comic thriller about a man so blind only evil can make him see.
The most naive man in the world finds two million dollars in his garbage can. The most evil man in the universe wants it back. Alfred Hitchcock meets Sergio Leone in this wild darkly comic thriller about a man so blind only evil can make him see.
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my latest is on the odd confluence of unitary executive theory with a president who is mostly AWOL from the business of governance (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Is a Lost Cause
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December 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
my latest is on the odd confluence of unitary executive theory with a president who is mostly AWOL from the business of governance (gift link)
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Mini-reviews of a few of the best films I've seen in the past month, including Sentimental Value, Herzog's Fata Morgana, Mr. Scorsese and others:
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Capsule Reviews: Sentimental Value, Mr. Scorsese, Train Dreams, and Some Other Gems
Brief looks at some of the best films and television, both new and old, I’ve seen in the last month.
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December 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Mini-reviews of a few of the best films I've seen in the past month, including Sentimental Value, Herzog's Fata Morgana, Mr. Scorsese and others:
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