Chime / Serpent's Path His films tend to observe this kind of context collapse as people, groups, communities, or even the entire world spiral. Think of the seeming imminent apocalypse of Cure, the suggested one of Charisma...

For @reverseshot.bsky.social it's a double-header review of a new/old Kiyoshi Kurosawa double bill. Twice the thrills! Twice the chills! Twice the existential disquiet!

South Pacific When it comes to cinematic technological advances, the question is always how we use the tools we've been gifted or cursed with.

For @reverseshot.bsky.social's Revolutions Symposium, some something on that enchanted evening and how a musical about bad color productively expresses itself badly

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For the @reverseshot.bsky.social symposium, I wrote about THE TARGET SHOOTS FIRST and the Hi-8 camera, selling out vs. buying in, the shadow of the ’90s on our current moment, and my tenure managing Downtime Magazine. A more personal piece than usual! Check it out! reverseshot.org/symposiums/e...

Becky Sharp When it comes to cinematic technological advances, the question is always how we use the tools we've been gifted or cursed with.

In @reverseshot.bsky.social on Rouben Mamoulian's Becky Sharp (1935) and some Technicolor® history, if you please! reverseshot.org/symposiums/e...

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs When it comes to cinematic technological advances, the question is always how we use the tools we've been gifted or cursed with.

Thrilled to be part of the latest @reverseshot.bsky.social symposium with a piece on Snow White and Disney's multiplane camera reverseshot.org/symposiums/e...

The Moment The most compelling throughline is that maybe it was absurd for brat to skyrocket in the first place, particularly in an entertainment ecosystem that requires its celebrities to be as mass market, pal...

wrote about cocaine, sponcon, Charli XCX's THE MOMENT, and snuck the words "Australian pop twink" into the hallowed grounds of @reverseshot.bsky.social !!! reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

Reverse Shot’s Two Cents of 2025 Our annual roundups, including lists of Top 10 films, 11 Offenses, and 2 Cents

For @reverseshot.bsky.social I contributed to Two Cents to praise PAVEMENTS as the best experimental biographical documentary.

A USEFUL GHOST's "harmonious interplay of absurdist humour, eroticism, and politics are anchored by its deeply resonant human drama centered on memory and yearning." Review by Đăng Tùng Bạch:
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Baby Steps The world of video gaming

For @reverseshot.bsky.social I wrote about Baby Steps and the beautiful frustration of Bennett Foddy's work reverseshot.org/features/341...

Cherien Dabis This is a very profoundly intimate, personal family story. So while certain dates are very important because of historical events, I wanted the 1970s to have less of that. I wanted for us to see a sen...

“Palestine has lived in my heart, certainly, my entire life.”

Alllll the way back during Sundance 2025 last January (the day David Lynch died of all days), I spoke to Cherien Dabis about her about her beautiful, epic film ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU.

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And the winner is… One Battle After Another Zipping frenetically from one set piece to the next and incorporating a dizzying array of film types – from heist gone wrong to romantic melodrama to satirical comedy to chase thriller – Paul Thomas A...

Zipping frenetically from one set piece to the next and incorporating a dizzying array of genres, Paul Thomas Anderson’s incendiary portrait of modern America, One Battle After Another, is the worthy winner of this year’s poll, writes Michael Koresky

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SIGNED Films of Endearment (Hardcover, NEW) An Esquire Best Book About Hollywood A USA TODAY Best Book of 2021 “A lovely and loving book.”—Will Schwalbe, New York Times bestselling author of The End of Your Life Book Club "I'm not sure I have...

If you and a parent (or child) ever bonded over shared love of movies, this beautiful remembrance by film critic and programmer Michael Koresky will make you all misty. It's about the experience of watching movies with his mother. Signed by the author. mzs.press/SIGNED-Films...

I'm delighted that Michael invited me to do this with him. His new book Sick & Dirty is so sharp and smart, and every one of these eight movies will hold your attention--some because of the very elements that make them profoundly screwed-up, and some because they're wonderful.

Koji Yakusho, alone at the back of a bus, in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s CURE (1997).

A Few Great Pumpkins @reverseshot.bsky.social; Wesley Morris, @eshynes.bsky.social, and @robert-emmet.bsky.social on more scary movies; @fredmkaplan.bsky.social + @sshaviro.bsky.social on Kathryn Bigelow; MUBI roundtable on Radu Jude …

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A Few Great Pumpkins XX

Michael Koresky launches A Few Great Pumpkins XX: “This is dark, silly, but also genuinely nasty stuff, and, while keeping its horrific violence off-screen, THE BAD SEED gets under the skin in ways unlike any other movie.”

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Geeta Gandbhir Once we committed to the body camera footage, we were determined to live in it. We wanted to build and recreate the world that this community existed in, which you couldn't do otherwise. So, it was ch...

The best thriller of 2025 is Geeta Gandbhir's harrowing documentary THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR.

For @reverseshot.bsky.social, I spoke with Gandbhir during #NYFF63 about subverting the inherent dehumanizing of police bodycam videos to empathetically record a community.

All the Predators Looking past traditional cinema into avenues of visual media and other light-related phenomena across the online landscape�and beyond.

happy to be back @reverseshot.bsky.social with a new installment of Event Horizon! i write on David Osit’s doc “Predators” and trace Chris Hansen’s influence on online predator hunters… reverseshot.org/features/338...

Reverse Shot's Touching the Screen home page, highlighting two articles. On the left: Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding 1 & 2, by Dan Schindel On the right: Hideo Kojima's P.T. & Metal Gear Solid V by Esther Rosenfield

Reverse Shot screenshot of an article header. Hideo Kojima: Metal Gear Solid 3 & 4 By Juan Barquin Us and Them, Over and Over Again

Reverse Shot screenshot of an article header. Hideo Kojima: Metal Gear Solid 1 & 2 By Forrest Cardamenis Play's the Thing

Reverse Shot screenshot of an article header. Hideo Kojima: Metal Gear & Snatcher By Cole Kronman Setting Out

All five essays of the Reverse Shot mini-symposium on Hideo Kojima, his career, and his themes, have officially made it up. I encourage you to read through them if you ever want a journey through his work told by five unique writers.

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Adored Richard Linklater's BLUE MOON, playing this week at NYFF and releasing soon. The film uses the breakdown of Rodgers and Hart's creative partnership to tease out age-old paradoxes between art and commerce, hope and despair, commitment and compromise. My review:
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We're in the thick of our ongoing coverage of NYFF 2025. Check out our in-depth reviews with more titles added daily.
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One Battle After Another One Battle After Another unapologetically addresses the completely inexcusable injustices of contemporary American life while being incredibly funny, exciting, suspenseful, and poignant, particularly ...

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is a succinct description of organizing/activism, raising a kid, or just trying to exist in this fuckin’ country. I wrote about Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest for @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

The exquisite, deeply moving SUNSET SONG today at 4 p.m. at Museum of the Moving Image with star Agyness Deyn in person!
This big-screen must-see closes out the series Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past.
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Day 3 of MoMI's Terence Davies series features a triple dose of sublime cinema: his sole documentary OF TIME AND THE CITY, Gena Rowlands in THE NEON BIBLE (in 16mm, with costar Jacob Tierney in person), and Davies's devastating final film, BENEDICTION.
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If you don't know THE TERENCE DAVIES TRILOGY—his first 3 shorts—then you don't know Terence Davies. Some of the most indelible images you'll ever see.
Screening this Sat afternoon, once only, in imported 35mm prints at Museum of the Moving Image.
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Sick and Dirty A blazingly original history celebrating the persistence of queerness onscreen, behind the camera, and between the lines during the dark days of the Hollywood P…

We're talking ROPE tomorrow with Michael Koresky on our first ever Hitchcock pod! Michael wrote about the film extensively in his latest book—Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness—which you really REALLY should get your hands on soon

Julian Glander (Boys Go to Jupiter) One takeaway I hope people get from the movie is that through all of this rot and through everything, there are things that are worth paying attention to, and they're happening all around you. And I t...

BOYS GO TO JUPITER, with its timelessly melancholic portrait of youth situated in a ravaged economy, is one of my fave films of the year. I talked to Julian Glander about how Blender changed his life, eggs, and being on Jeopardy! for @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/interviews/e...

if you have not seen the House of Mirth, then you haven't seen one of the best movies of the last 25 years

Excited to announce in-person guests celebrating the great Terence Davies at MoMI in Sept: Cynthia Nixon (A QUIET PASSION), Agyness Deyn (SUNSET SONG), Jacob Tierney (THE NEON BIBLE), and Sony Pictures Classics' Michael Barker (THE HOUSE OF MIRTH). More info here:
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Taxi zum Klo This column focuses on the dynamic or below-the-surface nature of queer representation in international cinema.

I wrote about the classic queer film TAXI ZUM KLO for Reverse Shot ( @reverseshot.bsky.social ). It's currently playing at The Metrograph in NYC and you should definitely go watch it if you can.

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