Pan Sauce

On the art of the negative movie review and an anniversary celebration of one of the best bad reviews ever written.

New Reviews: "Fight or Flight," "Juliet & Romeo," Henry Johnson" 🔒

One hellacious B-movie action-comedy, one parboiled Shakespeare revamp for tweenie-boppers and a late-career curio from a great American playwright.

10 Good Movies on Netflix (again)

Plus: A heads-up for the latest Movie Club screening and a Watch List bargain.

New Reviews: "Another Simple Favor," "The Surfer," "Words of War" 🔒

This week's reviews from the Washington Post, including one of the year's worst movies and a bio-drama of a hero.

"Sinners" and the Curse of Amnesia

Some belated thoughts on the year's most ambitious movie and what it asks of audiences.

Best Bets for Boston's Best Film Festival

(plus: New WaPo reviews of "On Swift Horses" and "The Legend of Ochi") I’ve been running around so much this week that I forgot to tell my local readers about this year’s edition – the 22nd – of the best little film fest in town, The

Rerun: Walter Matthau's Barbaric Yawp

It's been a busy week with all sorts of irons in the fire, movie- and life-related, so I thought I'd dust off one of the very first Watch List postings from 2021 because it was fun to write and because this guy is fun to read about.

One Good Film: "Ricki and the Flash" (2015)🔒

The silliest role of Meryl Streep's career is also one of the warmest, thanks to the late, great Jonathan Demme.

Why Are There No Good Movies About the American Revolution?

And a tip to a pretty good film for the upcoming Patriot's Day

New Review: "The Wedding Banquet" 🔒

Poster Boy

On movie posters and the mixed messages they send us. Plus: the lurid pleasures of the late Robert McGinnis, pulp illustrator extraordinaire

New Reviews: "Drop," "John & Yoko," "Sacramento," "Misericordia" 🔒

Four new theatrical releases, four reviews from the WaPo.