
Watch List Digest 6/21/25
Tempus fugit, Burt Lancaster swims home.
Tempus fugit, Burt Lancaster swims home.
Plus a few thoughts on reality as filtered by our national news media.
Everybody out of the pool!
"Materialists" in theaters, "Make Way for Tomorrow" and "Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse" on demand.
We just weren't made for his times.
From this week's WaPo reviews: A "John Wick" spinoff and the latest Tyler Perry melodrama
Matt Wolf's documentary peeks behind the surface of a pop-culture icon in search of the lost boy beneath. Plus, some thoughts about the new Wes Anderson design showroom - sorry, movie - the two faces of Dubrovnik and on demand recommendations.
And other thoughts about "Mission: Impossible β The Final Reckoning." Also: "I'm Still Here" and a new "Four Seasons" come to Netflix
A hot spring of a movie: It fizzes a lot, and you come out feeling better than you went in.
On the art of the negative movie review and an anniversary celebration of one of the best bad reviews ever written.
One hellacious B-movie action-comedy, one parboiled Shakespeare revamp for tweenie-boppers and a late-career curio from a great American playwright.
Good Movies π½
Plus: A heads-up for the latest Movie Club screening and a Watch List bargain.
New Movies
This week's reviews from the Washington Post, including one of the year's worst movies and a bio-drama of a hero.
Good Movies π½
Some belated thoughts on the year's most ambitious movie and what it asks of audiences.
Film Festivals
(plus: New WaPo reviews of "On Swift Horses" and "The Legend of Ochi") Iβve been running around so much this week that I forgot to tell my local readers about this yearβs edition β the 22nd β of the best little film fest in town, The
Remembrances βοΈ
It's been a busy week with all sorts of irons in the fire, movie- and life-related, so I thought I'd dust off one of the very first Watch List postings from 2021 because it was fun to write and because this guy is fun to read about.
One Good Film
The silliest role of Meryl Streep's career is also one of the warmest, thanks to the late, great Jonathan Demme.
Good Movies π½
And a tip to a pretty good film for the upcoming Patriot's Day
New Movies
On movie posters and the mixed messages they send us. Plus: the lurid pleasures of the late Robert McGinnis, pulp illustrator extraordinaire
New Movies
Four new theatrical releases, four reviews from the WaPo.
What to Watch
Plus: A guide to the weekend's best streaming movie bets.
Remembrances βοΈ
The original freak-folkie and one of this country's great outsider artists has passed on to the jamboree in the sky. You don't know what we've lost.