There was no shortage of enthralling female protagonists in 2019, many in films much more engaging than It Chapter Two—but Beverly Marsh is the one I keep coming back to. Read More
Kelsey Ford on murder mysteries, gentleman sleuths, and Rian Johnson's Knives Out. Read More
Pedro Almodóvar's Pain and Glory is a film unapologetically about films, where the subject is equal parts passion and profession, addiction and therapy. Read More
Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story has nothing but empathy, the kind I’ve been craving, for Charlie and Nicole Barber—even when it would be easy not to, and especially when they have so little for each other. Read More
Honey Boy and Doctor Sleep bleed from the same heart, an intimate diptych about abused boys who grow into men haunted by and reaching for their fathers. Read More
Instead of taking issue with the facts of what Frank Sheeran tells us, The Irishman unravels the way he positions himself within his account. Read More
Whenever I put on I Think You Should Leave, its bedlam feels like a weighted blanket—a brief and soothing respite from the horrible truths of the outside world. Read More
The way we experience movies shapes the way we experience life, and to experience a movie like The Beach Bum, to ingest and absorb this much giddy existential gratitude, strikes at least this viewer as quite a blessing. Read More