Good Movies 📽
And other thoughts about "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning." Also: "I'm Still Here" and a new "Four Seasons" come to Netflix
Weekly Digest
One Good Film
A hot spring of a movie: It fizzes a lot, and you come out feeling better than you went in.
Guilty Pleasures 🤦♂️
On the art of the negative movie review and an anniversary celebration of one of the best bad reviews ever written.
Weekly Digest
Another round-up of the (few) good movies on Netflix and more.
New Movies
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 📽
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 📽
Some belated thoughts on the year's most ambitious movie and what it asks of audiences.
A guide to movies in theaters and on demand, plus pop culture observations, from a film critic with 40 years in the business.
(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
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.
The silliest role of Meryl Streep's career is also one of the warmest, thanks to the late, great Jonathan Demme.
And a tip to a pretty good film for the upcoming Patriot's Day
On movie posters and the mixed messages they send us. Plus: the lurid pleasures of the late Robert McGinnis, pulp illustrator extraordinaire
Four new theatrical releases, four reviews from the WaPo.
Plus: A guide to the weekend's best streaming movie bets.
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.
Compassion seems to be the watchword of the week's posts, and I know you know we could use some.
Bless the beasts and the ... never mind, just bless the beasts. Plus: movies to remember Val Kilmer by.
