Presenting Reverse Shot's #1 of 2022: Alice Diop's extraordinary SAINT OMER. "Neither morality tale nor true crime offering . . . its form is beautiful, disturbing, mysterious." Farihah Zaman reverseshot.org/features/3028/…

For Reverse Shot's glorious Two Cents, I wrote about Judy Davis' phenomenal performance in Nitram, the inanity of Lydia/Linda Tár's Staten Island origins, and the Best Actress of 2022: Guslagie Malanda in Saint Omer. reverseshot.org/features/3030/…

For Screen Slate, I wrote about Mitchell Leisen's beautiful Remember the Night, which contains one of Barbara Stanwyck's greatest performances and is playing this month at Film Forum: screenslate.com/articles/remem…

Thank you to Vikram Murthi for inviting me to write about a forever favorite, Claire Denis’ 35 Shots of Rum, for Downtime Magazine: downtime.jambys.com/posts/home-mov…

For Reverse Shot, I reviewed Babak Jalali's hypnotic and beautifully crafted Fremont, which opened Museum of the Moving Image's First Look Festival and hopefully finds distribution real soon: reverseshot.org/features/3045/…

The Dardennes return with a tale of two Cameroonian teenage refugees posing as siblings to remain in Belgium in the persuasively angry TORI AND LOKITA. Opens today. Review by Matthew Eng reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/…

"The raw material of Reichardt’s film is the daily, soul-sucking minutiae that comes with choosing and devoting oneself to the artist’s life in a country that cannot nor will not sustain such endeavors." Matthew Eng on SHOWING UP, opening today! reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/…

PAST LIVES is "about two people contemplating the possibilities of what could have been and what still might be, but it is also about the electric charge and covert forces that draw two bodies and souls together." Review by Matthew Eng: reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/…

I wrote about Ira Sachs's Passages, my favorite film of 2023 so far, for Reverse Shot: reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/…

A highlight of my day/year/life: walking by British Museum and realizing man with shopping cart crossing street is Mike Leigh. Spoke to us for five mins. He’s in the middle of editing his next film but doesn’t know what to call it. Almost ascended when he said “Katrin Cartlidge.”

"Older actors could have made these characters and their bond more emotionally resonant and credibly worn." Matthew Eng on Garth Davis's sad midwestern sci-fi FOE: #NYFF61 reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/…

Needed Michael's beautiful words on his hero and ours: the irreplaceable and eternally inspiring Terence Davies ❤️

"LAST SUMMER is not so much a provocation that those who know only of the logline and Breillat’s career might be led to believe. This is a master class in emotional precision." Matthew Eng on Catherine Breillat's LAST SUMMER. reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/…

I wrote about Julia Roberts, Gena Rowlands, and Luca Guadagnino's After the Hunt for Reverse Shot: reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/…