Events
Everyone Comes to Rick's (Still)
Come for a screening and discussion of the deathless "Casablanca," 6/11 at the West Newton Cinema.
Ty Burr
Zen Journal
The Time of My Life
How two photographs taken 50 years apart have the author pondering ... everything.
Movies Ty Forgot He Reviewed: "Silent Souls" & "Don't Think Twice"
Take your pick: A deadpan bit of Finnish poetry or an incisive human comedy of Manhattan bad manners.
Guilty Pleasures 🤦♂️
A Scream is a Wish Your Heart Makes: "Obsession" and "Backrooms"
Two up-from-YouTube directors upend the studio system -- but can the revolution last? And are the movies any good?
What to Watch
What to Watch: "Exit 8," "Spider-Noir" & actual noir
An existential thriller of liminal space comes to streaming, as does a curious Marvel update of an old Humphrey Bogart movie. Plus: Criterion noirs.
What to Watch
What to Watch: "Silent Friend," "I Love Boosters," "The Drama" and more
Two rewarding new theatrical releases -one haunting, the other hilarious - and a worst-case-scenario wedding drama on demand.
Good Movies 📽
Five Weird (But Pretty Good*) Movies on Netflix
Dig deep into the service's offerings and you can come up with some interesting fool's gold.
Remembrances ⭐️
Rex Reed 1938-2026
Thoughts on the movie critic as cultural relic.
What to Watch
What to Watch: "Blue Heron," "The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist"
Sophy Romvari's heartbreaking memory play comes to theaters while Daniel Roher's AI both-sidesism hits VOD.
Politics
On the Unnecessity of Killing a President
It's alright, Ma -- I'm only blogging.
What to Watch
What to Watch: "Pillion," "Sound of Falling," "The Christophers," "Miroirs No, 2"
Two in theaters, two on demand.
What to Watch
What to Watch: "Séraphine" (2008)
A forgotten film gem from France -- and a brief apology to my subscribers.