Companion explores similar territory to recent films like Blink Twice and Heretic. Immaculate is about female autonomy, ...

What do Steven Soderbergh's Presence and Michael Jackson's song "Man in the Mirror" have in common? We'll explain.

Thank god for Tony Rayns, whose commentary for The Undercover Man made me realize what makes Joseph H. Lewis's aesthetic so ...

It's easy to think about Harakiri as a critique of ancient Japan, but it's worth examining it as commentary on Japan ...

We are not so much expected to understand Eraserhead, but accept that the film is a Lynchian journey into the struggle of ...

Think of what happens at the Nickel Academy as a microcosm of America. It’s a classic storytelling technique: you shrink the scope of the story down to something far more intimate but use it as a ...

This is a live list where I rank the movies of 2025. If something isn’t on the list, I haven’t seen it. Leave your comments and we’ll talk. The movies within a category are in alphabetical order. I ...

Wolf Man’s major themes have to do with parents and children, specifically around ideas of communication and trauma. Blake’s dad loved him but communicated it horribly and that scarred Blake. On the ...

C, as a ghost, spends years trying to unearth the note M left. After the house is bulldozed, he hangs out for a few more decades (or however long it takes a city to develop) before jumping back in ...