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Our 2026 Career Achievement Award recipient is Philip Kaufman
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For the @latimes.com, I reviewed KEEPER, in which Osgood Perkins tries a Soderbergh-like genre doodle.
Review: In 'Keeper,' a romantic getaway becomes as nightmarish as you'd expect
The latest movie from horror director Osgood Perkins ('Longlegs,' 'The Monkey') shows off technical mastery while lacking the lingering sting of his better work.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
For the @latimes.com, I reviewed KEEPER, in which Osgood Perkins tries a Soderbergh-like genre doodle.
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My review of the gorgeous new animated feature ARCO includes four quotes from PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE, but in a positive context. For both films!
‘Arco’ Review: A Gorgeous and Colorful Time Travel Adventure That Lacks Thrills
Ugo Bienvenu's luscious debut animated feature introduces a far-off future where humanity lives in the clouds.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:43 AM
My review of the gorgeous new animated feature ARCO includes four quotes from PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE, but in a positive context. For both films!
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Psyched to chat with my hero Roger Deakins tonight about #TheBigLebowski. Plus: Reviews of #TheRunningMan ('87 and '25), #Pluribus, an early look at #WickedForGood and much more. Join me at my Saturday Matinee newsletter. It's always free ⬇️
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Happy Roger Deakins Day to All Who Celebrate
And by "all," I mean all of us
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November 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Psyched to chat with my hero Roger Deakins tonight about #TheBigLebowski. Plus: Reviews of #TheRunningMan ('87 and '25), #Pluribus, an early look at #WickedForGood and much more. Join me at my Saturday Matinee newsletter. It's always free ⬇️
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A rave for SIRĀT, the movie of the year: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“Sirāt” Is a Harrowing, Exhilarating Dance of Death
In Oliver Laxe’s desert thriller, an intensely agonizing journey reveals both the pitiless nature of fate and the stubborn persistence of compassion.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A rave for SIRĀT, the movie of the year: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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No bleaker satire than making it through THE RUNNING MAN, past end credits of a raised fist with “Together Against the Network,” to see the words: A Skydance Corporation.
Or maybe there is, if someone makes a documentary about what Edgar Wright may have had to cut.
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Or maybe there is, if someone makes a documentary about what Edgar Wright may have had to cut.
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Review: Edgar Wright's 'The Running Man' limps into theaters too relevant to be any fun
Stephen King’s 1982 techno-dystopian novel no longer feels sci-fi, making this remake trip over its own feet. (It's still better than the Schwarzenegger version.)
www.latimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
No bleaker satire than making it through THE RUNNING MAN, past end credits of a raised fist with “Together Against the Network,” to see the words: A Skydance Corporation.
Or maybe there is, if someone makes a documentary about what Edgar Wright may have had to cut.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Or maybe there is, if someone makes a documentary about what Edgar Wright may have had to cut.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Had the immense honor of interviewing the one and only Sylvia Chang about her fantastic performance in Huang Xi’s DAUGHTER’S DAUGHTER and her singular career at large, for Metrograph. metrograph.com/sylvia-chang...
Sylvia Chang - Journal - Metrograph
A titan of New Taiwanese Cinema and the Hong Kong New Wave discusses her latest award-winning role.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Had the immense honor of interviewing the one and only Sylvia Chang about her fantastic performance in Huang Xi’s DAUGHTER’S DAUGHTER and her singular career at large, for Metrograph. metrograph.com/sylvia-chang...
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The second time I saw the road thriller “Sirāt,” I couldn’t wait to hear the audience moan.
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Review: Enjoy the sharp twists in the techno-thumping, Cannes-winning road thriller 'Sirāt'
The pleasures and agonies of Oliver Laxe’s spellbinding Cannes winner 'Sirāt' kick off at a sandy Moroccan rave where a dad and his son search for a lost girl.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The second time I saw the road thriller “Sirāt,” I couldn’t wait to hear the audience moan.
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I tried to be quick about reviewing ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER and DIE MY LOVE. But it didn't quite work. See for yourself. lytrules.substack.com/p/quick-take...
Quick Takes: One Battle After Another and Die My Love
Guess which one is my favorite of 2025 so far.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I tried to be quick about reviewing ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER and DIE MY LOVE. But it didn't quite work. See for yourself. lytrules.substack.com/p/quick-take...
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Happy to finally present the second Catalyst and Witness 2025 festival dispatch for the 63rd New York Film Festival, featuring Kenji Fujishima and myself! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Catalyst and Witness
TV & Film Podcast · A year-by-year analysis of the films and format of the New York Film Festival, hosted by Ryan Swen.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Happy to finally present the second Catalyst and Witness 2025 festival dispatch for the 63rd New York Film Festival, featuring Kenji Fujishima and myself! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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Edgar Wright's THE RUNNING MAN, released by Paramount, is about why monopolistic corporations, like Paramount, which manipulate the news to support a conservative agenda, like Paramount, are so evil they should be taken down by force.
So support the message by... giving Paramount money?
My review:
So support the message by... giving Paramount money?
My review:
‘The Running Man’ Review: Paramount Movie Argues That Opposing Paramount Is Paramount
Glen Powell is hunted for sport on national television in Edgar Wright's spirited, but tragically ironic adaptation of Stephen King's sci-fi thriller
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November 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Edgar Wright's THE RUNNING MAN, released by Paramount, is about why monopolistic corporations, like Paramount, which manipulate the news to support a conservative agenda, like Paramount, are so evil they should be taken down by force.
So support the message by... giving Paramount money?
My review:
So support the message by... giving Paramount money?
My review:
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The Mexican film CORINA is streaming on Hulu/Disney+ now. It’s a story about a young woman with dreams of being a writer but afraid of stepping outside of her comfort zone. It has often been compared to AMÉLIE. I reviewed it for @variety.com: variety.com/2025/film/re...
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
The Mexican film CORINA is streaming on Hulu/Disney+ now. It’s a story about a young woman with dreams of being a writer but afraid of stepping outside of her comfort zone. It has often been compared to AMÉLIE. I reviewed it for @variety.com: variety.com/2025/film/re...
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Let's talk about BUGONIA! We're doing a LIVE spoiler chat today at Noon Pacific at our Breakfast All Day YouTube channel. We can't wait to discuss what's really happening in the latest from #YorgosLanthimos. Link below ⬇️
#Bugonia
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#Bugonia
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Bugonia LIVE Spoiler Chat! | Emma Stone | Jesse Plemons | Yorgos Lanthimos
Alonso has finally caught up with BUGONIA, the latest from Yorgos Lanthimos, so it's time for a LIVE spoiler conversation. Join us here at Noon Pacific time on Tuesday, Nov. 11. We'll talk about what'...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Let's talk about BUGONIA! We're doing a LIVE spoiler chat today at Noon Pacific at our Breakfast All Day YouTube channel. We can't wait to discuss what's really happening in the latest from #YorgosLanthimos. Link below ⬇️
#Bugonia
@bfastallday.bsky.social
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#Bugonia
@bfastallday.bsky.social
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I've come to really enjoy Jesse Eisenberg in the NOW YOU SEE ME movies. Otherwise, NOW YOU DON'T is more sub-OCEAN'S ELEVEN silliness.
‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ review: Jesse Eisenberg heads tricky third instalment of heist franchise
Returning stars Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Isla Fisher and Morgan Freeman join incoming director Ruben Fleischer
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November 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I've come to really enjoy Jesse Eisenberg in the NOW YOU SEE ME movies. Otherwise, NOW YOU DON'T is more sub-OCEAN'S ELEVEN silliness.
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Had a lovely chat with Rachel at Hallmarkies about the new edition of HAVE YOURSELF A MOVIE LITTLE CHRISTMAS #filmsky #booksky 📽 📚 @hallmarkiespod.bsky.social
Alonso Duralde is Back with a new Book- Interview (Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas)
Podcast Episode · Hallmarkies Podcast · 11/11/2025 · 49m
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November 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Had a lovely chat with Rachel at Hallmarkies about the new edition of HAVE YOURSELF A MOVIE LITTLE CHRISTMAS #filmsky #booksky 📽 📚 @hallmarkiespod.bsky.social
Aspiring film critics! LAFCA and @rottentomatoes.com are again offering TWO $3,000 SCHOLARSHIPS to students attending L.A.-area community colleges: one to a woman and one to a person from an underrepresented group(s). Apply by Dec. 7 and spread the word! bit.ly/LAFCAScholarship2025
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Aspiring film critics! LAFCA and @rottentomatoes.com are again offering TWO $3,000 SCHOLARSHIPS to students attending L.A.-area community colleges: one to a woman and one to a person from an underrepresented group(s). Apply by Dec. 7 and spread the word! bit.ly/LAFCAScholarship2025
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Ira Sachs' PETER HUJAR'S DAY is a lovely, intimate film. Happy to say I'll be moderating a Q&A with Sachs at the Royal on Sunday. Info here: www.laemmle.com/film/peter-h...
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Ira Sachs' PETER HUJAR'S DAY is a lovely, intimate film. Happy to say I'll be moderating a Q&A with Sachs at the Royal on Sunday. Info here: www.laemmle.com/film/peter-h...
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Of the two new movies in which a film-industry father seeks to reconcile with his two neglected daughters, I'm a bit surprised to find myself preferring the honest schmaltz of JAY KELLY to the coy self-satisfaction of SENTIMENTAL VALUE. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Bad Show-Biz Dads of “Sentimental Value” and “Jay Kelly”
In new films from Joachim Trier and Noah Baumbach, success in filmmaking proves depressingly incompatible with success in fatherhood.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Of the two new movies in which a film-industry father seeks to reconcile with his two neglected daughters, I'm a bit surprised to find myself preferring the honest schmaltz of JAY KELLY to the coy self-satisfaction of SENTIMENTAL VALUE. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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At Cannes, I reviewed DIE MY LOVE, impressed by its ability to put a new mother's tormented inner life on the screen in such vivid, feverish detail.
‘Die My Love’ review: Jennifer Lawrence sparks Lynne Ramsay’s portrait of a troubled marriage
Robert Pattinson also stars in Ramsay's unnerving Competition entry about new parents under extreme stress
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November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
At Cannes, I reviewed DIE MY LOVE, impressed by its ability to put a new mother's tormented inner life on the screen in such vivid, feverish detail.
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For LA Times, I interviewed the directors of LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN, my favorite animated film of the year, about a Belgian girl in Japan who thinks she is God. A joy to hear from directors Mailys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han about this triumph: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
November 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
For LA Times, I interviewed the directors of LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN, my favorite animated film of the year, about a Belgian girl in Japan who thinks she is God. A joy to hear from directors Mailys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han about this triumph: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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I’m hosting a Q&A with Bryan Fuller tonight before the screening of Dust Bunny! #filmsky 📽
Outfest returns to programming with the new OutfestNEXT series this week, bringing four days of great Queer films to LA's LGBT Center and LOOK cinemas in Glendale from November 6-9.
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Queer Film LA - Week of Nov 3
Outfest returns to programming with the new OutfestNEXT series this week, bringing four days of great Queer films to LA's LGBT Center and LOOK cinemas in Glendale from November 6-9.
www.queer.film
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I’m hosting a Q&A with Bryan Fuller tonight before the screening of Dust Bunny! #filmsky 📽
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This year, I had the distinct honor to serve on the @lafilmcritics.bsky.social jury for The American French Film Festival. Our team felt passionate about 2 films, both directed by women.
Best 1st Feature: The Girl in the Snow
LAFCA Critics Award: Love Me Tender
Best 1st Feature: The Girl in the Snow
LAFCA Critics Award: Love Me Tender
November 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This year, I had the distinct honor to serve on the @lafilmcritics.bsky.social jury for The American French Film Festival. Our team felt passionate about 2 films, both directed by women.
Best 1st Feature: The Girl in the Snow
LAFCA Critics Award: Love Me Tender
Best 1st Feature: The Girl in the Snow
LAFCA Critics Award: Love Me Tender
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Charlie Polinger’s #ThePlague floored me. It’s an immersive, harrowing horrorscape, from the chilling sound design by Damian Volpe (Nosferatu) to the sharp performances from Everett Blunck, Kenny Rasmussen & Kayo Martin.
My review: freshfiction.tv/the-plague-r...
My review: freshfiction.tv/the-plague-r...
‘THE PLAGUE’ Review: Charlie Polinger’s Brilliant Tale of Boyhood, Bullies and Body Horror
Courtney Howard // Film Critic THE PLAGUE Rated R, 1 hour and 35 minutes Directed by: Charlie Polinger Starring: Everett Blunck, Kenny Rasmussen, Kayo Martin, Elliott Heffernan, Joel Edgerton, Luca…
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November 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Charlie Polinger’s #ThePlague floored me. It’s an immersive, harrowing horrorscape, from the chilling sound design by Damian Volpe (Nosferatu) to the sharp performances from Everett Blunck, Kenny Rasmussen & Kayo Martin.
My review: freshfiction.tv/the-plague-r...
My review: freshfiction.tv/the-plague-r...
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Last night at Disney, I moderated a Q&A with two of the directors of Pixar’s ELIO, Domee Shi and Madeline Sharafian, and producer Mary Alice Drumm. One of my favorite films this year, animated or otherwise.
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Last night at Disney, I moderated a Q&A with two of the directors of Pixar’s ELIO, Domee Shi and Madeline Sharafian, and producer Mary Alice Drumm. One of my favorite films this year, animated or otherwise.
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DIE MY LOVE
As good and committed as Jennifer Lawrence is, there were times I wanted to rescue her from her own movie, to protect her from the fate of Faye Dunaway when “Mommie Dearest” turned another blond Oscar winner into a joke.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
As good and committed as Jennifer Lawrence is, there were times I wanted to rescue her from her own movie, to protect her from the fate of Faye Dunaway when “Mommie Dearest” turned another blond Oscar winner into a joke.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Review: Jennifer Lawrence gives everything to the wild, brutal 'Die My Love' but gets left dangling
This messy Molotov cocktail by indie auteur Lynne Ramsay pairs Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson as flailing new parents who fight, bite and destroy.
www.latimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
DIE MY LOVE
As good and committed as Jennifer Lawrence is, there were times I wanted to rescue her from her own movie, to protect her from the fate of Faye Dunaway when “Mommie Dearest” turned another blond Oscar winner into a joke.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
As good and committed as Jennifer Lawrence is, there were times I wanted to rescue her from her own movie, to protect her from the fate of Faye Dunaway when “Mommie Dearest” turned another blond Oscar winner into a joke.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Give me a headline award now. #PredatorBadlands lytrules.substack.com/p/predator-b...
Predator: Badlands Review - Dek, the Elle's, With Yautja, Golly
Christmas comes early for Predator fans this year
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November 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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