Lack of Taste
Adrian Nguyen, Matt LabashA Newsletter About Movies For People Who Don't Like Movies
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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In (Partial) Defense of Mubi
One of the biggest memes of 2025 was the ‘performative male’, which satirizes men who attempt to attract the opposite sex by consuming things associated with femininity. One of those objects is the tote bag, which has become synonymous with...
Sending off the Brainrot of 2025 with Matt Labash
Another year. Another conversation with my favorite journalist and the repository of wisdom Matt Labash. If you are a regular reader of this newsletter, I recapped the year before the New Year, going over aspects that I find interesting and...
The 100 Greatest Movies of the 21st Century - Yi Yi: A One and a Two (2000)
The film theorist Andre Bazin has said that “the role of cinema here is not that of a servant nor is it to betray the painting. Rather, it is to provide it with a new form of existence.” Bazin argues that cinema is not meant to be a copy of...
The 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century - A Prologue
Earlier this year, the New York Times released a list of the Greatest movies of the 21st century. It was the kind of list you would expect, featuring all of the great movies released in this century thus far. Accompanying the official list...
Thirty Years of Heat
Traditional storytelling has always emphasized the battle of good and evil. To watch a movie is to see these constructs already established and determined. In cinema, the genre of film noir popularized a cynical and morally ambiguous area b...
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