New Movies
New Reviews: "Another Simple Favor," "The Surfer," "Words of War" 🔒
This week's reviews from the Washington Post, including one of the year's worst movies and a bio-drama of a hero.
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Good Movies 📽
"Sinners" and the Curse of Amnesia
Some belated thoughts on the year's most ambitious movie and what it asks of audiences.
Film Festivals
Best Bets for Boston's Best Film Festival
(plus: New WaPo reviews of "On Swift Horses" and "The Legend of Ochi") I’ve been running around so much this week that I forgot to tell my local readers about this year’s edition – the 22nd – of the best little film fest in town, The
Remembrances ⭐️
Rerun: Walter Matthau's Barbaric Yawp
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
One Good Film: "Ricki and the Flash" (2015)🔒
The silliest role of Meryl Streep's career is also one of the warmest, thanks to the late, great Jonathan Demme.
Good Movies 📽
Why Are There No Good Movies About the American Revolution?
And a tip to a pretty good film for the upcoming Patriot's Day
New Movies
New Review: "The Wedding Banquet" 🔒
Poster Boy
On movie posters and the mixed messages they send us. Plus: the lurid pleasures of the late Robert McGinnis, pulp illustrator extraordinaire
New Movies
New Reviews: "Drop," "John & Yoko," "Sacramento," "Misericordia" 🔒
Four new theatrical releases, four reviews from the WaPo.
What to Watch
What to Watch: "Secret Mall Apartment"
Plus: A guide to the weekend's best streaming movie bets.
Remembrances ⭐️
Michael Hurley 1941-2025
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.
Weekly Digest
Watch List Digest 4/5/25
Compassion seems to be the watchword of the week's posts, and I know you know we could use some.