Good Movies 📽
Bi Gan's epic phantasmagoria cries out to be seen on the big screen. Plus: The Boston Society of Film Critics' picks for the best movies of 2025 -- and where to stream them.
What to Watch
Reasons to be thankful, part 68.
What to Watch
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
The Ross brothers's 2020 ode to a Las Vegas dive's last stand is warm, funky and trickier than it seems.
What to Watch
What Not to Watch: "Nuremberg." (Well, if you must.)
New Movies
Plus reviews of the new "Frankenstein," Jafar Panahi's latest, Keanu Reeves as an angel, Rose Byrne as a mother of a mother, and a little soapboxing
Good Movies 📽
Two new excellent, unknown films on VOD, plus new releases "Kiss of the Spider Woman " and "Roofman" and lots more.
News
Following last week's post, a round-up of sites and newsletters with an eye toward an eventual unofficial news network. Oh, also a movie recommendation.
Good Movies 📽
Some movies to lighten your existential load this week -- or to confirm it.
Film Festivals
Some second thoughts on Spike Lee's latest, and a baker's dozen of my most anticipated Toronto Film Festival screenings
New Movies
Jia Zhangke's latest is a literal career summary. Also: You have to pick ten movies to represent Japanese cinema to newcomers. Quick: what do you choose?
Good Movies 📽
Something (streaming) for everyone: "40 Acres," "Materialists," "Drop," "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl," "The Shrouds" and "Peking Opera Blues"