Classics 🎞
Nostalgia Tour
On "If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium" and the cheesiness of memory. Plus: Criterion Channel must-sees.
Ty Burr
Birds 🦉
Where Sea-Eagles Dare
On vagrancy and the stories we tell ourselves when we look at birds
Weekly Digest
Watch List Weekly Recap 12/31/21 🍾🎉
Looking forward to 2022 and looking back at the best of 2021
Good Movies 📽
The Best Movies of 2021
Here be the list, and it's a long one
Weekly Digest
🎁 Watch List Weekly Recap 12/24/21 🎄
Talking Xmas movies with Ask Amy, five films for a full house, and a meta-"Matrix" reboot. Also: Thanks for making my 2021 possible.
Good Movies 📽
Neo Realism
"The Matrix Resurrections" revisits sim city for a sequel that intentionally subverts itself.
Good Movies 📽
Five Movies the Whole Family Can Watch
Suggestions for a crowded holiday house
Talking Xmas Movies with Amy Dickinson
We rate the holiday classics from the sublime to the terrifying
Weekly Digest
Watch List Weekly Recap 12/17/21
Weird movie promo junk, Italian nostalgia tours, bad mothers, and ex-Monkees were some of the topics covered this week.
Good Movies 📽
Mum's The Word
"The Lost Daughter" explores the resentments of motherhood with surgical skill and two great performances. Also: "Nightmare Alley" and "Swan Song."
Good Movies 📽
See Naples And Live
"The Hand of God," on Netflix, is a memory play that vividly recreates a director's youth. Plus: Remembering Mike Nesmith.
Some Notes On Swag
The uses, abuses, and absurdities of movie PR tie-ins