Film critic Marshall Shaffer talks you through the movies you should watch, twice a week.
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The Downstream: October 2026
Hey friends — another busy October full of awards season ramp-up is taking it out of me! No time to catch my breath from festival season. Hope you’re faring better.
Beetlejuice, 1989. © Warner Bros.
With roughly 10 days left in my birth m...
Halloween 2026: All the Heresy and the Horror
Last year, I penned a post recommending movies that sincerely grappled with the mysteries and majesty of faith.
Consider this post that one’s evil twin.
The occasion here, other than being two weeks away from Halloween, is a re-release of...
My NYFF 2026 Superlatives
The memorable and the meme-able from this year’s festival
It is finished.
Marshall's 2026 awards checklist
It’s about that time of year again … my annual bit of pre-season Oscar punditry. The fall film festivals have come to a close (well, I have one final encore screening at NYFF today), and the field is more or less set.
You can thank my fri...
The Upstream: October 2026
Well, hello, friends. It’s been absolute madness with the New York Film Festival in full swing on top of life itself. Yesterday was one of the wildest instances of cultural whiplash I can recall…
But anyways … somehow, October returned. He...
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