Festival Reports
An underdog story about an underdog story is an unexpected highlight at the Toronto Film Festival
Festival Reports
A new Hamaguchi masterpiece, a brooding Russian drama and a peak performance from one of our great acting eccentrics.
Festival Reports
It's fall festival time, and the Watch List is headed to Toronto to try and make sense of it all.
Weekly Digest
Last Gasp of the Summer edition
What to Watch
Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder go on a voyage of personal discovery in Jane Schoenbrun's new movie, and it's a hell of a ride.
What to Watch
Plus a few words on two icons we've lost this week.
Music 🎸
A phantasmagoric rock memoir from a man who apparently was everywhere. Plus: Billy Collins parodies Mary Oliver (or does he?) and some Criterion Channel picks.
What to Watch
A new film by Sasha Waters is a celebratory portrait of the beloved poet, but there's a tougher Mary Oliver somewhere behind the stanzas.
What to Watch
An owl, a poet and a chef walk into a bar.
A guide to movies in theaters and on demand, plus pop culture observations, from a film critic with 40 years in the business.
Looking for a leaner, meaner, classier "Odyssey"? "The Return," with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, awaits you on VOD. Plus, some thoughts on Emily Wilson (scorpion) and Christopher Nolan (frog).
David Toop's "Two-Headed Doctor" is a spellbinding genealogy of American music tied to one of the strangest, deepest records of the 1960s. Plus a few movie things.
A nifty little thriller on demand and, in theaters, an aching confession of complicity and regret from one of our finest documentarians.
Christopher Nolan's blockbuster adaptation of the classic tale is an unexpected Homer.
Farewell to a changeling actor who amassed innumerable credits while never quite getting the credit he deserved.
Went away, got bit, got sick, got better -- how's your summer been?
In which the author searches for the fool's gold of the Platonic Ideal of a car tunes playlist.
New to VOD: Four cinematic diversions running the gamut from the sublime to the very silly.
Come hear Chris Vognar and me talk Boston crime-film turkey Thursday night, and make time for a lost little charmer on demand. Plus, Ty vs the ticks.
A pottymouthed feel-good Scottish movie on demand, plus music docs from the King and the Brain.
In praise of one of the great rock 'n' roll eccentrics.
