The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a story about the terror and beauty of walking into the unknown, but the movie is so afraid of defying Marvel convention that only the terror shines through. starts strong, crawls to the finish. my review: indiewire.com/criticism/movi…

every fucking time

lol this is a very bad podcast and it physically pains me to acknowledge its existence but i'm glad someone out there seems to like it! time.com/collections/10…

A Little Lives

that’s a 0, 592, 0 for me

This is the only rational response at this point.

Every word of this, from Richard Brody: newyorker.com/culture/the-le…

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.forward.com/opinion/757549…

Read this very carefully: *One quarter* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3 days*

there are like six different scenes in The Naked Gun that made me laugh so hard I cried. even the title card is funny. I wrote “SO DUMB (complimentary)” in my notebook several times.

The Naked Gun is the funniest new American movie i've seen in years. my review: indiewire.com/criticism/movi…

perfect movie, incredibly rare chance to see it in theaters. i can only imagine how hard it slaps with a crowd.

this novelty garbage will fail hard, and not just because I really want it to.

it's not too late for the movies to reject AI. i wrote about The Wizard of Oz at the Sphere, Italian Brainrot, and why surrendering to the "inevitability" of AI confuses the fact that tech needs art more than art needs tech. indiewire.com/criticism/movi…

extremely funny movie. perfect thing to watch after you’ve done your duty as an American and seen The Naked Gun ~5-12 times.

tried not eating sugar for a while. and it turns out that i much prefer eating sugar.

the best part about loudly shaming someone for using their phone during a movie is that there's a non-zero chance they might carry that shame with them for the rest of their lives. maybe shame someone else. pass the shame to their children. i think i get how religion works now.

Weapons is a blast, and a huge step up from Barbarian. felt to me less "horror Magnolia" than "sketch comedy Cure." hard not to wish it dug a little deeper, but even harder to stay mad at a movie that ends as perfectly as this one does. my review: indiewire.com/criticism/movi…

most stressful movie of the year incoming