I love Maria Bamford and I loved Judd Apatow’s portrait of her. What a gift she is. Full review of the doc for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/paralyzed-by...

#sundance The Incomer is very sweet, really silly. One can feel the growing pains of Louis Paxton moving to features, but Gayle Rankin is exceptional. Full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/the-incomer-...

Carousel - had a hard time getting on Lambert’s wavelength but once this settles into a tactile understanding of depression - and the difficulty of communicating when you well, don’t know how to communicate - it hits, little off-kilter still-lives just very smart direction and patient. #sundance

The world of high-risk climbing does not seem like it would be an environment for the likes of nationalism, xenophobia, social-media dependency, craven capitalism, colonialism, but The Last First goes there. Really enjoyed @sundance.org @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/the-last-fir...

American Pachuco @sundance.org beautiful and joyous tribute to Luis Valdez. Wished it went even deeper! So much theatrical innovation glossed over, but loved the depth of appreciation for a true trailblazer

I have exactly two takes about the Oscars. 1) F1... lol 2) Amanda Seyfried's performance in The Testament of Ann Lee is extraordinary and it's frustrating to see her (as well as Fastvold's audacious film as a whole) get overlooked consistently

Mercy - not uninteresting, as I keep getting suckered into Timur’s advancement with Desktop Cinema, but overall just really silly and politically inscrutable. Pratt is very bad in this, Ferguson very good. Full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/mercy-movie-...

Heading to @sundance.org to cover the last Park City edition for @screenrant.bsky.social and wrote up a small preview of the fest’s most exciting titles. Hard to narrow it down! Gregg Araki! Charli XCX! A new posthumous film from William Greaves! Boy oh boy! screenrant.com/sundance-202...

@screenrant.bsky.social Roundup this week includes the 28 Years Later sequel, the Matt Damon-Ben Affleck thriller The Rip, Night Patrol, The Lord of the Rings trilogy for its theatrical re-release, Signing Tony Raymond, Seeds, A Private Life and so much more. screenrant.com/screenrant-m...

If we weren't already, we're about to enter into an era of media that reflects the unchecked burgeoning dominance of AI. Deepfaking Sam Altman takes a sardonic, resigned look at ChatGPT, while also subtly endorsing basic human interaction. For @screenrant.bsky.social screenrant.com/deepfaking-s...

Jodie Foster is an artist that finds ways to continually explore new avenues of herself for her work, and in A Private Life, Rebecca Zlotowski's transcendent psychological thriller/murder mystery, she is, once again, magnetic. Full review for @screenrant.bsky.social screenrant.com/a-private-li...

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is the franchise's most nauseating and most hopeful, a film whose seeming contradictions act as its beating heart. Ralph Fiennes and Jack O'Connell are exceptional. Full review of @28yearslater.bsky.social for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/28-years-lat...

Never thought a story about possessed vacuum cleaners could be so heartbreaking and beautiful. My review of Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s wild and singular A Useful Ghost, for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/a-useful-gho...

If you needed one more reason to be frustrated with the American healthcare system, focus your eyes on Benjamin Flaherty’s personal and maddening experience with the corruption of addiction care in South Florida. My review of Shuffle, for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/shuffle-movi...

Opening at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social is Seeds, a gorgeous, tender-hearted portrait of the perseverance of a fading subculture, with Walker Evans-like photography of Black farmers in the rural south. My full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/seeds-movie-...

The same book that inspired Tom Cruise’s The Edge of Tomorrow now has a more faithful anime adaptation, and while it’s certainly gorgeous to look at, it’s not nearly as fun. My full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/all-you-need...

RIP to Béla Tarr - watching all 7+ hours of Sátántangó during lockdown is a seminal memory - the Hungarian slow cinema pioneer’s work still feels like the most accurate depiction of the bleak powerlessness of everyday people. An extraordinary singular artist.

Albert Birney continues to one of the true (potential) heir apparents to David Lynch. OBEX is a tactile immersion into his strange, oddly warm world. Full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/obex-movie-r...

Sleepwalker sets a new, low bar for the infamous January horror. My full review of Hayden Panettiere’s bizarrely bad vehicle, for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/sleepwalker-...

My Neighbor Adolf is an ill-conceived comedy which treats both PTSD and Nazism like personality quirks. Read my full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/my-neighbor-...

Angel Studios’ latest film, I Was a Stranger, is arguably their best - and yet it is also their most myopic and self-serving, a digestible thriller which reduces the migrant crisis to fodder for generalized action. My full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/i-was-a-stra...

Happy new year! @screenrant.bsky.social first movie review roundup of 2026 includes Daisy Ridley’s zombie turn, André Holland’s modernized theatrical tale, Amanda Seyfried’s potential Oscar performance, a documentary on the Proud Boys, and more! Read all: screenrant.com/screenrant-m...

Here's my first review of 2026: the charming (if a bit slight) comedy The Mother and the Bear, which premiered at TIFF in 2024. Lovely take on the elder-person-self-discovery with a little bit of While You Were Sleeping thrown in. For @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/the-mother-a...

Very excited to announce the Top 10 Films of the Year on @screenrant.bsky.social as decided by the entire reviews team. I wrote the opening for the piece - a wonderful year, in my opinion, for global cinema. Find out what our number 1 is! screenrant.com/top-10-films...

Merry Christmas!! If you're looking for a bit of a different holiday read, try my appreciation article for @screenrant.bsky.social on my annual tradition of bingeing Christmas Horror flicks. This was so fun to write. screenrant.com/all-i-want-f...

Same playbook used on the genocide in Gaza--throw up a smokescreen of conflicting claims and hairsplitting so the audience is comforted by their own ambivalence to other people's suffering. Every item in this is pointless if you know that torture and rape are wrong, period.

Anaconda: found it to be pretty fun, but ultimately quite hollow and insipid. My full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/anaconda-rev...

The latest review roundup for @screenrant.bsky.social is live! Todd Gilchrist breaks down Avatar, Graeme Guttmann relishes in the kooky The Housemaid, Liz Declan re-visits The Force Awakens on its 10th birthday, I revel in Laura Poitras' latest doc Cover-Up, and more: screenrant.com/screenrant-m...

When you do stuff like this and it isn't covered as the massive scandal it should be, the permission structure to do equally awful stuff is quite high.

Wrote about Oscar shortlisted “The President’s Cake” (first of its kind out of Iraq) for @screenrant.bsky.social - propulsive, enjoyable, with a great child performance. Yet I couldn’t get past the feeling it was made with a Western audience in mind. Full review: screenrant.com/the-presiden...

Anaconda: Perfectly serviceable, I had a good time. solid satire of studios recycling IP without understanding why the material worked in the first place. Surprisingly earnest and sweet. Laughed a lot - Zahn MVP. Some strange choices but as a crowd pleasing skewering of Hollywood, it works #anacdona

Used to think The Grinch was a creepy strange and oddly sexualized film but overtime appreciate it as part of its bizarre charm. Here’s my piece on the 25th anniversary of Jim Carrey’s wild performance, as always for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/how-the-grin...

We are proud to announce the first ever Screen Awards, a new celebration created in partnership with ScreenRant, Collider, @cbr.bsky.social, and @movieweb.bsky.social to honor the best achievements in film, television, and anime. 🏆 Read the full list of nominations here: bit.ly/4aOChOa

On @screenrant.bsky.social today we’ve launched a new section of reviews celebrating films’ significant anniversaries, and I’m excited to start it with the 20th of Brokeback Mountain. Ang Lee’s majestic, wrenching love story is more heartbreaking than ever. My review: screenrant.com/brokeback-mo...

Bi Gan’s “Resurrection” is the audacious filmmaker’s most impressive, kaleidoscopic and startlingly emotional film to date, a meta theatrical, sci-fi, cinephilic masterpiece. My full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/resurrection...

Three fresh new reviews by me up this morning on @screenrant.bsky.social - a Wisconsin-set comedy about filmmaking; a Samurai vs Cannibals action; and a beautifully realized essay film which catalogs global immigration. All can be read on my author page: screenrant.com/author/grego...

Ted Sarandos calling shortened cinema windows a “consumer friendly” decision is such horseshit and he knows it. We have to stop capitulating to stockholders and consumer laziness and preserve the theater experience.

The Silent Night, Deadly Night remake is super fun - when it allows itself to be. They made Billy a woke ally…? Some great kills; mostly overcomes its more dour overtones. Full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/silent-night...

This week's review roundup for @screenrant.bsky.social is loaded! We've got Todd Gilchrist on Marty Supreme and Rosemead, Alex Harrison on Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Graeme Guttmann on The Secret Agent, myself on Reflection in a Dead Diamond and more! Read them all: screenrant.com/screenrant-m...

Netflix's purchase of Warner Bros. has me nostalgic for a bygone period of anti-trust law enforcement. Not looking forward to the inevitable destruction of even more theaters, and desperately hoping I'll be wrong about that. Regardless: go see more movies in theaters!

Avatar: Fire & Ash rehashes Way of Water, but better? Club-footed story, technically great, dialogue atrocious, politically the same de-colonial, anti-military stab. A technical triumph. Sigourney Weaver as 16 continues to be strange. It’s very fun and propulsive, but don’t expect more than that.

Found The New Yorker at 100 to be nothing more substantial than a Bar-Mitzvah video. No doubt the magazine's influence and its editorial standards are high, just wish Netflix's documentary was a bit more avoidant of hagiography. My review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/the-new-york...

Scandar Copti’s first film in 18 years is a really stunning patchwork portrait of an Arab family living within Israel’s increased militarization. My full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/happy-holida...

Reflection in a Dead Diamond is a rare gem indeed from maximalist pastiche experts Forzani & Cattet, an investigation into the expanding impact of violence, moviemaking and James Bond. Also: torn flesh and gorgeous frames. My review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/reflection-i...

Tamara Kotevska’s “The Tale of Silyan” finds the Macedonian documentarian working in similar fashion to “Honeyland,” exploring how agricultural tradition clashes with capitalist greed and global warming. My full review, for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/the-tale-of-...

First review of Turkey Week is up, and if you’re a fan of James Nunn’s other no-nonsense, fast and heavy action like his previous One Shot films, you’ll be Thankful for Kate Beckinsale in Wildcat (see what I did there?) Full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/wildcat-movi...

Bunch of exciting review up on @screenrant.bsky.social today, including Wicked: For Good, Chris Hemsworth's documentary on his father, Sisu: Road to Revenge - plus a handful of others, including some re-ups on Rental Family and Train Dreams. Read our weekly roundup! screenrant.com/screenrant-r...

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Cactus Pears opens tomorrow and the Indian romance is a ravishingly shot, tender queer romance with truly elegant metonymic images. A stunning feature debut from Rohan Kanawade. My full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/cactus-pears...