Come for the homoerotic subtext, stay for the shirtless saxophonist. Read More
On the blessing and curse of streaming family films over and over during a pandemic. Read More
Midway through the festival, our intrepid correspondent offers his thoughts and recommendations Read More
“It’s such a beautiful day,” my wife and I say each morning as we look out the sliding glass door onto the backyard, imbuing it with a weight and meaning we never have before, because it’s not the weather that matters so much as the freshness of the air. And, of course, we say it because there isn’t much else we can say now that isn’t tinged by either sorrow or fear. Read More
"It’s basically a coming of age story, but it appeals to me enormously because Kenny manages to both embrace the wonderfulness and beauty of adolescence and the shaping of an adult—how glorious it is, and what a great triumph it is for all of us that anybody survives their childhood or their adolescence." Read More
My binges often ended in shame and physical pain, but at the beginning there was an animal release in just devouring. Read More
There’s a type of story I’ve come to recognize as my favorite: the ones that seem in the moment to be about small, even insubstantial, personal concerns yet reveal themselves immediately upon finishing to have conveyed something like the full enormity of what it means to be alive. Read More
In September, several things happened in quick succession: I got a new job. I got new glasses. I got into a workshop. I called my mom at seven in the morning and said, “I think I have to go to Belgium in a few weeks,” and she said, “Yeah, that makes sense.” Read More
If you’ve been around the site lately, you probably noticed that our paywall has been down, and you could... Read More
Broadcast News presents adulthood as an exercise in weathering the relentless sensation of being not-quite-enough and not-quite-right. Read More
The unconvincing movie drunks, which range from forgettable to excruciating, are too many to number. But the few great drunk performances are worth interrogating, to uncover what they might tell us about drinking and being drunk. Read More
The seventh art is a perceptual assemblage born of collaborative effort, and it can pay to consider some of the less prominent elements. Read More