After a long delay, CHALLENGERS is out on Friday. It's sexy and a little strange and makes you wish you were young and hot and talented. (If you aren't that currently.) Here's a review: vanityfair.com/hollywood/stor…

Hey NYC: Tomorrow night at 7 at the Quad Cinema, I get to introduce two of my very favorite Buster Keaton movies, Sherlock Jr. & Steamboat Bill, Jr. Plus: Keaton-and silent film-themed trivia quiz (not for experts only)!

A tremendous work of arthouse sci-fi, Bonello's 'The Beast' is concise in its abstractions, turning Henry James's novella into a time-hopping triptych about isolation. Léa Seydoux delivers a vulnerable performance with a bone-chilling crescendo. #NYFF61 polygon.com/23912037/the-b…

THE FIRST OMEN. I’m a fan. And I’ll follow Arkasha Stevenson anywhere she goes next.

LA CHIMERA is:
~a comedy
~a tragedy
~a ghost story
~Josh O'Connor going full Pacino New Hollywood '70s in the dingiest white suit ever filmed in three different film stocks
~one of my favorite movies of this year
~one of my favorite movies of any year
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Godzilla x Kong: the MonsterVerse is completely out of gas, but I’d be all the way down for another sequel if it were just 2 hours of Dan Stevens wearing a Hawaiian shirt and doing dental work on various Titans.

anyway, my review: indiewire.com/criticism/movi…

Alice Rohrwacher reaffirms her gifts as an idiosyncratic explorer of the liminal spaces between past and present in the beguiling LA CHIMERA, one of 2023's most memorably unique films, finally hitting U.S. theaters on Friday. My The Hollywood Reporter review
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My interview with Jake Gyllenhaal on Swayze, McGregor, action movies, and how they did the fight scenes in ROAD HOUSE. vulture.com/article/jake-g…

If you have a relative of a certain political persuasion with particular thoughts about New York City, ASPHALT CITY will be their red meat. Read Ed Gonzalez's review. slantmagazine.com/film/asphalt-c…

The late Med Hondo will be all over town starting Friday, with a restoration of West Indies at Film Forum and a copious retrospective at Anthology Film Archives, and the discoveries—in substance, in form, in rueful revelation and fervent delight—are essential: 
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“Monkey Man”: even outside its confoundingly muddled political imagery, Dev Patel doesn’t have the juice as an action filmmaker—at least not yet—but he wears his influences on his sleeve. A cinematic and cultural synthesis that yields facsimile. #SXSW2024 ign.com/articles/monke…

I love THE FALL GUY. I love it. I can’t stop thinking about it. One of the most charming movies I’ve seen in years. vulture.com/article/ryan-g…

'Dune: Part Two' is a thrilling improvement on its predecessor, and the 2024 film to beat for outsized sci-fi showmanship.
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Mati Diop’s illuminating doc on the return of African art treasures looted by colonizers, DAHOMEY, is a great choice for the #Berlinale2024 Golden Bear. Mubi will release the film this year. My The Hollywood Reporter review, ICYMI
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No Other Land premiered in Berlin this week — a major and utterly enraging documentary about the Israeli military’s dehumanizing occupation of a Palestinian community in the West Bank mountains. This needs distribution ASAP.

In #Spaceman , playing a Czech astronaut suffocating from loneliness, Adam Sandler gets lost in space. My review. shorturl.at/rDFGI

PROBLEMISTA doesn’t lock on a target long enough for it to work up a head of steam as satire about the art world and how it thrives on nepotism. Read Ed Gonzalez's review. slantmagazine.com/film/problemis…

An impeccably moving drama about self-sacrifice and capitalist indignities, the romantic, occasionally surreal 'In the Belly of a Tiger' rounds out a trio of great Indian works at #Berlinale2024 that reflect upon the nature of the self. variety.com/2024/film/revi…

I wrote about Robert De Niro's losing streak, and why his performance in Killers of the Flower Moon matters more than awards slate.com/culture/2024/0…

I challenge you to read this interview I did with Denis Villeneuve about Dune: Part Two and NOT envision THAT scene from Spaceballs when he talks about the work that went into keeping the desert beautiful for shooting. screencrush.com/denis-villeneu…