Remembrances ⭐️
Rob Reiner 1947-2025
The actor-director was a great mensch, and the virtues that flow from that informed the films he made and the life he lived.
Ty Burr
Weekly Digest
Watch List Digest 12/13/25
What to Watch: "Wake Up Dead Man" & More
Politics
Donald Trump's Letter to Santa
Tis the season, God help us all. (I know everyone's doing one of these, but I had to get my licks in.)
What to Watch
What to Watch: "The Left-Handed Girl," "The Stringer," Jay Kelly"
As Netflix gets ready to take over the world, the service offers three fine new films. Resistance is futile.
What to Watch
The Turkey Day List
Reasons to be thankful, part 68.
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.