Small-batch film criticism made in DC and delivered once a month on a Monday. Additional untimely reviews for paying subscribers.
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Missing Scorseses
No one is going to believe me besides the people I told this to back in January (not that I’m banking on them to remember), but I thought it would be fun to do a post this year—a series, even!—on the not-inconsiderable number of Scorsese fi...
Alligator (1980)
Untimely review #21
This is the ninth installment in my monthly feature for paid subscribers covering movies from my Letterboxd watchlist.
2026 Summer Books Special
Long Take (Akira Kurosawa, 1999; trans. Anne McKnight, 2025)
When Akira Kurosawa died in 1998, over 35,000 people showed up to his memorial service. No artist today could command that kind of turnout, which says as much about the mov...
I reviewed the Rohmer novel
For Commonweal, I reviewed the new English translation of Élisabeth, the first and only novel by Éric Rohmer.
McNally Editions, an independent New York press that describes itself as “devoted to elevating unduly neglected books and autho...
Streetwise (1984)
Untimely review #20
This is the eighth installment in my monthly feature for paid subscribers covering movies from my Letterboxd watchlist.
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