One of my favorite comic panels is the last one on this page, where Pekar pops in via inset to agree with himself.

Wrapping up a dermatologist visit recently, the doctor told me “I see you’ve got a little rosacea on your cheeks. No big deal, nothing to worry about. Very common among Anglo Saxons.”

Please, I’m on my knees begging you, go read some film writing at In Review Online, Slant, Reverse Shot, Split Tooth Media, anywhere besides TikTok or LB one-liner joke posts. There are people out there trying to engage seriously with a wide variety of world cinema

“The new Hal Hartley movie is 74 minutes long,” I notice admiringly.

What a great year this has been for opening title sequences. Spike Lee, Wes Anderson, Ethan Coen… cheers to them.

Tomorrow at 10:15am EDT, our CEO Andrew Toy will deliver testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health on the transformative role of AI in healthcare. His testimony will showcase how our Clover Assistant platform is leading the way in AI by

Hal Hartley is back! And this was my first opportunity to review one of his films. If you’re in NYC, go see it at Roxy Cinema New York this weekend.

Julian Lage

You guys better have Monkeybone playing in the background of your Halloween parties this month

As I explain in this review, I had some serious reservations about Köln 75. But many people who’ve read it have told me that the film sounds interesting and that they’d like to see it—which I consider a high compliment as a critic.

Proud of my hometown theatre, The Tower, where I grew up seeing first-run films like There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men (back when 35mm was the standard).

“Arnold Schwarzenegger claps back”

John Sayles fan: I wonder who plays 3x music video director John Sayles in the Bruce Springsteen movie.

“Flat Earth” is emblematic of the subgenre of contemporary literature concerned with incels, raw milk, phones, and post-ironic irreverence. Are these books bad? Or are they merely responding to a particularly dark new age? thebaffler.com/latest/flat-ea…

One of the grossest things about AI is that those who use it know it’s theft and know it’s wrecking the environment, but they love to frame it as some sort of leveler of a grave human rights violation. We used to realize we were bad at something and just move on with our lives.

I'm surveying the landscape, wondering who will rise up as the Vidal to Tim's Mailer.

2025 is my third year contributing to this Best Of The Year coverage, and for the second time my #1 choice is the consensus favorite. Am I a brainless follower or a reliable bellwether?

Zane Shields hello, donavon! i personally think we should officially adopt whatever spelling kool keith uses