Eli Roth’s Society of the Spectacle
With Thanksgiving, a titan of horror proves he’s also one of America’s most savage social critics.
Author Archive
Radical Objectivity
A review of Jeff Fynn-Paul’s 'Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World'
✹ WEEKLY FILM RUNDOWN: November 21-29
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Chip's Harvest
What a sixty-three-year-old sitcom can teach us about the folly of "land acknowledgments"
✹ WEEKLY FILM RUNDOWN: November 17-21
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Nashville’s Taylor Era
Rediscovering the suburban roots of the world’s biggest popstar may be the city’s only way to stave off its decline.
David Fincher’s Violence as a Service
'The Killer' shows how expendable art makes for expendable lives.
✹ WEEKLY FILM RUNDOWN: November 10-16
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A Little Less Conversation
Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla sidesteps the melodrama to depict the Presleys’ interior worlds.
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
A review of Tucker by Chadwick Moore
✹ WEEKLY FILM RUNDOWN: November 3-10
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Scorsese’s Forced Perspective
'Killers of the Flower Moon' should have been a late-career masterpiece from a living legend. That’s not possible in our cultural climate.
The Halloween Ten Revisited
These overlooked horror movies bring some new blood and biting cultural commentary to spooky season.
✹ WEEKLY FILM RUNDOWN: October 27-November 3
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Film Review: Anatomy of a Fall
The winner of this year’s Cannes Film Festival probes the limits of the legal system and the ethics of true crime.