Pulp fiction: on the murderous paper chase of Park Chan-wook's NO OTHER CHOICE, starring Lee Byung-hun in one of the year's great performances. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Am joining @thehighsign.bsky.social, @justincchang.bsky.social, and @bilgeebiri.bsky.social to go deep on the year in movies as part of Slate Movie Club this year. Here's my first dispatch, on some of the smaller movies I loved alongside the much-discussed bigger ones

Delighted to be with @thehighsign.bsky.social, @alisonwillmore.bsky.social and @bilgeebiri.bsky.social in this year’s Slate Movie Club. Here’s me on the greatness of BLACK BAG, SORRY, BABY and ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL, plus a few dissenting thoughts on SENTIMENTAL VALUE. slate.com/culture/2025...

Slate Movie Club 2025 is underway, with an opening post from me on the challenge of coming up with a movie that best encapsulates this year. More posts coming up over the next two weeks from @bilgeebiri.bsky.social, @alisonwillmore.bsky.social & @justincchang.bsky.social. slate.com/culture/2025...

Split take: on Will Arnett and Laura Dern in Bradley Cooper’s rather wonderful standup comedy of remarriage, IS THIS THING ON? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... (Love this illustration, too, by the great Bruno Mangyoku.)

Few movies this year can hold a fast-melting candle to Bi Gan's RESURRECTION. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The brutality of Donald Trump’s language is nothing new. And yet, with his remarks on the death of Rob Reiner—made while the world was reeling from violent events over the weekend—he reached a new level of degradation, David Remnick writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/L8pMc7

Tulkun gestures: for the first time in James Cameron’s AVATAR series, it feels like Pandora’s boxed him in. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The Lord's slayer: on the greatness of Josh O'Connor and John Dickson Carr, Benoit Blanc and Dr. Fell, and the many delights of Rian Johnson's mass-murder mystery, WAKE UP DEAD MAN. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Another great #LAFCA meeting on the books. Congrats to our winners and runners-up: www.lafca.net/awards.php

Sorry, baby, it was just an accident.

Best Picture, Winner: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER #LAFCA

Best Picture, Runner-up: THE SECRET AGENT #LAFCA

Best Film Not in the English Language, Winner: THE SECRET AGENT #LAFCA

Best Film Not in the English Language, Runner-up: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT #LAFCA

New Generation: Eva Victor, SORRY, BABY #LAFCA

Best Director, Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER #LAFCA

Best Director, Runner-up: Ryan Coogler, SINNERS #LAFCA

Best Documentary/Nonfiction, Winner: MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW #LAFCA

Best Documentary/Nonfiction, Runner-up: THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR #LAFCA

Best Screenplay, Winner: Jafar Panahi, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT #LAFCA

Best Screenplay, Runner-up: Eva Victor, SORRY, BABY #LAFCA

Best Lead Performance, Winners: Rose Byrne, IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU, and Ethan Hawke, BLUE MOON #LAFCA

Best Lead Performance, Runners-up: Timothée Chalamet, MARTY SUPREME, and Wagner Moura, THE SECRET AGENT #LAFCA

Best Supporting Performance, Winners: Stellan Skarsgård, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, and Teyana Taylor, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER #LAFCA

Best Supporting Performance, Runners-up: Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, and Andrew Scott, BLUE MOON #LAFCA

We are also awarding a Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Special Award to Thom Andersen for his body of work. #LAFCA

Our selection for the Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Award is Albert Serra’s AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE. #LAFCA grasshopperfilm.com/film/afterno...

Best Animation, Winner: LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN #LAFCA

Best Animation, Runner-up: KPOP DEMON HUNTERS #LAFCA

Best Film Editing, Winner: Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, MARTY SUPREME #LAFCA

Best Film Editing, Runner-up: Andy Jurgensen, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER #LAFCA

Best Production Design, Winner: Hannah Beachler, SINNERS #LAFCA

Best Production Design, Runner-up: Tamara Deverell, FRANKENSTEIN #LAFCA

Best Music Score, Winner: Kangding Ray, SIRĀT

Best Music Score: Runner-up: Ludwig Göransson, SINNERS

Best Cinematography, Winner: Adolpho Veloso, TRAIN DREAMS #LAFCA

Best Cinematography, Runner-up: Autumn Durald Arkapaw, SINNERS #LAFCA

Happy LAFCA Voting Day, aka One Ballot After Another.

Now more than ever, etc. Thrilled and proud to unveil, with the great @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social, our lists of the best films of 2025: www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...

Tunnel visions: TRAIN DREAMS, reviewed. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

HAMNET (Chloé Zhao, 2025)

“What were any of us doing at that age that was comparably heroic or meaningful? What are we doing now?” The great @timgrierson.bsky.social on one of the year’s great films, MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW. Opens Nov. 28 in L.A.: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Chloé Zhao's HAMNET, reviewed. Bring tissues; wet streams may come. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Damn, how did I miss “aBaumination”?

Baum's away. The remarkably terrible WICKED: FOR GOOD, reviewed: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Ghosts of girlhoods past: on the haunting, labyrinthine mysteries of Mascha Schilinski's SOUND OF FALLING, one of 2025's great films. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

A rave for SIRĀT, the movie of the year: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Ordinary Papal

Of the two new movies in which a film-industry father seeks to reconcile with his two neglected daughters, I'm a bit surprised to find myself preferring the honest schmaltz of JAY KELLY to the coy self-satisfaction of SENTIMENTAL VALUE. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...