What makes Mission: Impossible — Fallout and Free Solo what they are is not death. It’s the spectatorship of death. It’s watching those around a person come to terms with what we all know is out there. Read More
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Seeing movies is a gift, and I can’t wait to go back next year. Read More
There's a deftness to Ocean's Eleven that feels magical—of all the material for adults that I consumed a little too early, this was the only one that secretly felt like it was for kids. Read More
I saw Lady Macbeth in the dead weight of summer with two male friends. This was, as politely as I can say it, a mistake. I don’t think we had the language to talk about it afterwards. Read More
On The Truman Show, Jake Paul, and the increasingly blurred lines between the performed and private self. Read More
Good Time is an itch, a nagging. I want to let it go, but I, too, have been prone to spiral. Read More
The first act of Atonement (2007) takes place in the summer of 1935 in Shropshire, England, and this is the kind of heat that’ll drive you insane. Read More
Diana is a remarkable heroine, not just within the realm of comic book movie heroines, but for female protagonists in general. Read More
This is perhaps the part of the essay where I admit, fully, that I love him. I love Bill Nighy. Read More
Seeing Sing Street by myself in a cold Chicago spring was yet another act of self-care. Read More
Not all movies are cinema; The Holiday is certainly not cinema—but it is upbeat and kind and romantic and Jude Law is just, like, extremely hot here. Read More