I remember seeing THERE WILL BE BLOOD and walking out dizzy from having seen what felt like an instant masterpiece. That was the exact same sensation I got from seeing Paul Thomas Anderson's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. May be my favorite of his work after TWBB. 📽️ www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

I loved All Is Lost. If you haven’t seen it, it’s great late Redford cine-vue.com/2013/05/cann...

Certainly mine. I mean, did you see that dude in '69?! Or '74?!?!

A few thoughts on Robert Redford, a star whose movies I watched endlessly, who walked the activism walk, who I was lucky enough to interview several times and unlucky enough to piss off during a moderated Q&A (a story for another time.) 🎥 www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Some news: yesterday was my last at Rolling Stone. For now, I'm going solo, doing all my TV reviewing, recapping, etc., at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing. Many more details here:

Give Stephen Graham all the awards — not just all the Emmys— and give Stephen Colbert the Nobel Peace Prize.

If you haven't seen SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE I truly cannot recommend it enough and i have already recommended it quite a bit. www.vulture.com/article/some...

Man, it's going to be HI-larious when that Boys & Girls Club total hits zero. Will we then go into negative numbers, with the kids running up a tab? Thrilling!

Even with the Locarno big-ups, was surprised by how solid this unique take on an old chestnut one was. Sophie Romvari is a real discovery. Keep an eye out for it if it comes to a theater, or streamer, or drive-in, or sheet hung up on a wall in a dark room near you.

Proud to know all three of these writers/world-class wonks/extraordinary people @swin24.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social @nikkimcr.bsky.social

A completely subjective, highly personal, totally prejudiced list of the Best Films at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival—or "TIFF," as the locals call it—that is also the only truly correct 10 best list and you should accept no substitutes #TIFF2025 🎥 www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

The headline says it all. 📽️ www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

With Charlie Kirk's assassination, America is entering a terrifying new era of political violence. It's up to us to stop it. Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A man walks into a bar. Except it's not a bar, but the Chelsea Hotel, and Ronan and Daniel Day-Lewis are there, talking about ANEMONE and how they wrote it and growing up on movie sets and Daniel's grandfather Michael Balcon and the whole retirement thing. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

"Personal doesn’t begin to describe it, nor does passionate. It’s neither Guillermo del Toro’s best nor his worst, but this feels like the movie he was born to make, and the one he would have died trying to get done." FRANKENSTEIN #TIFF2025 📽️ www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

HAMNET will absolutely, positively fuck you up. And I'm pretty sure we'll be talking about Jessie Buckley's performance here for years. #TIFF2025 🎥 www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Another insightful piece by @szacharek.bsky.social on a current and seemingly widespread trend undoing, or revising significantly, the old rom-com playbook. time.com/7310400/anti...

You can out your knives back in your sheaths, WAKE UP DEAD MAN is good — better than 'Glass Onion,' I'd argue. Makes me want to read way more G.K. Chesterton, for sure. #TIFF2025 📽️ www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Still think I came up with a better, less troll-y title than 'Canceled' for this Paula Deen doc... #TIFF2025 📽️ www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Do you like John Candy? JOHN CANDY: I LIKE ME loves John Candy, and this doc will hopefully elevate the SCTV sketch 'Yellowbelly' to the God-tier status it deserves... #TIFF2025 📽️ www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

I love you, Toronto.

Coupla docs, coupla awards-courtin ' films, coupla Charli XCX projects, Sydney Sweeney throwing punches, new 'Knives Out' whodunnit, 'Frankenstein,' 'Hamnet' — our #TIFF2025 preview list. Gonna be spending a lotta time in the dark over the next week www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

To everyone who's crying "bloodbath" over the SNL turnover — which, look, I'll miss those cast members and writers, esp. Gardner — the 1994 to 1995 season would like a word...

Are you a big movie star? You will get a standing ovation in Venice. Are you a group of movie stars? You will get a standing ovation in Venice. Are you a movie star crying? You will get a standing ovation in Venice. Timing these things is silly!!

People talk about the legendary productions of DEATH OF A SALESMAN — Cobb! Hoffman! Dennehy! Another, different Hoffman (PS)! — but I remember being in the audience for this version and thinking, Finally, someone understood what Arthur Miller was going for... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjqV...

EPILOGUE

Less critic buyouts/eliminations, more austere black-and-white critic portfolios.

Started watching THE GILDED AGE, does Broadway just go dark during the months the show films?!

See LURKER, or The Talented Mr. Rizz-ply, ASAP. Really smart take on an entourage survivalist thriller-slash When Stans Attack satire... www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Been listening to 'Mother Puncher' on repeat for months, following the band drama, and just watched a Y/T video w/ Hinds talking about his gear set-up with his new trio, and made a note to see him perform when he comes to town. This is 1000% fucking devastating. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

This batch of Criterion releases in November could not be more all-over-the-map or eclectic, and I'm 100% here for it...

"I’d just turn to him and go, “The best necktie shop?” “Oh, there’s this place in London . . .” I mean, whatever you asked him — the best French restaurant, the best this, the best that — he had an answer immediately."—Steven Soderbergh on Terence Stamp, RIP www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

"It is still a free country. You can still say what you want. So why are so many powerful institutions behaving like it isn’t and they can’t? If a few bratty cartoon kids can peel off the emperor’s clothes, what are the grown-ups so afraid of?" [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/a...

New Yorkers: One of the best things you'll see all year. Everyone else: I'm praying it comes to you ASAP. MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS — PART 1: LAST AIR IN MOSCOW, now playing at Film Forum and hopefully a whole lot of other places soon www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war...

Area Critic (Me) Needs New Job. Reach out if you want me to write for you! Doesn't have to be reviews!

Big fan of WEAPONS, Zach Cregger's follow-up to 'Barbarian.' The review is spoiler-free, but I will say: Go see it ASAP. 📽️ www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

The Great American Dirtbag Cinema Masterpiece

I see director Jonathan Kaplan has died. It's never a bad time to check out his youth-gone-wild coming-of-age film "Over the Edge" (starring Matt Dillon in his film debut), about teens rebelling against their sell-out parents and soulless planned community. Supposedly a Kurt Cobain favorite.

I first saw NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER on cable when I was a kid. If you like late Horror City sleaze-pulp filled with '70s character actor and featuring James Brolin at peak Brawny-mascot hotness, you owe it to yourself to see this restoration on a big screen. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Notes from screening

**Highly** recommended read from Richard "Killer" Brody

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"This show has not been relevant for years," White House says re: show they feel compelled to issue a statement on less than 24 hours after season premiere airs

RIP, my man www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Happy EDDINGTON Day to those that celebrate... my take from Cannes, really happy this movie is finally out, really curious to see how people do (or don't) take to it... having seen it three times now, I dig it more than ever www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

I don't know what I Know What You Did Last Summer is doing 🎥 www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

It's for nerds! It's against the grain! It's SUPERMAN!!! Yes, many of the characters talk in a way that you know James Gunn is behind it, but man, this really does feel like a living, breathing Silver Age comic book... www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Both Dogville and La Commune made our list; The Clock was on my ballot (and also on the one from @timgrierson.bsky.social ) until we took it out of contention since it’s more art installation than a film 🎥

harpers.org/archive/2013... Agree. See "No and the magic system of advertising" (Harpers 2013)