What to Watch
The Turkey Day List
Reasons to be thankful, part 68.
Ty Burr
Weekly Digest
Watch List Digest 11/21/25
The Compleat (Almost) Werner Herzog, 1980s Skinemax movies, faux-documentaries and some really good films on demand. Check it out.
What to Watch
What to Watch: "Train Dreams," "Listers" and more
One of the year's best comes to Netflix and a scrappy home-made documentary about birding takes YouTube by storm. Plus: Reviews of "Rental Family," "Wicked: For Good" and some bleak humor for a time of ICE.
One Good Film
One Good Film: "Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets" (+ new to VOD)
The Ross brothers's 2020 ode to a Las Vegas dive's last stand is warm, funky and trickier than it seems.
Guilty Pleasures 🤦♂️
Max and Cheese
In which the author bites into the bittersweet Proustian madeleine of a youthful gig picking T&A movies for a major pay cable service.
What to Watch
What to Watch: Herzog on Criterion, "Sentimental Value"
What Not to Watch: "Nuremberg." (Well, if you must.)
What to Watch
What to Watch: "The Summer Book," "The Perfect Neighbor," "Bugonia"
Glenn Close stars in a film adaptation of Tove Jansson's translucent memoir. Plus: A Florida tragedy documented and Yorgos Lanthimos' latest provocation.
New Movies
What to Watch: "Deliver Me From Nowhere," "Blue Moon" & more
The Bruce movie is a brooder based on a good book about a great album. Plus: "Blue Moon," "The Mastermind" and more.
Events
Lemmon Zest
The Newton-born actor gets a hometown festival this weekend – join me for a Saturday evening chat with his grown kids.
New Movies
What to Watch: "The Baltimorons" & More
Plus reviews of the new "Frankenstein," Jafar Panahi's latest, Keanu Reeves as an angel, Rose Byrne as a mother of a mother, and a little soapboxing
Remembrances ⭐️
Diane Keaton 1946-2025
An era's enchantress takes her farewell. Lah. Di. Dah. 💔
New Movies