I like thinking of Thomas Pynchon as John Steinbeck for the cynic.

Just said to my kid “I can only do one thing at a time” to which he responded “well, you have two arms.” Absolutely savage.

We have Mike, we have his Murder. We have everybody winning… we have all of these things.

We're covering the career of 3 time #Oscar nominee and occasional scandal maker #DebraWinger. So you #UrbanCowboys better make sure your #TermsOfEndearment are up to date! Full ep at the links or on any #podcast app! 🍎: tiny.cc/TMRAppleWing 🟢: tiny.cc/TMRSpotifyWing 📺: patreon.com/themixedreviews

As One Battle After Another releases to a stratospheric response, Brian Formo speaks with director Paul Thomas Anderson and star Leonardo DiCaprio about the improvisational moments, lengthy gestation period and eureka discoveries that brought it to life. boxd.it/2JU

Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later on Netflix, Splitsville on VOD, and more streaming picks of the week.

Contenders for my Vulture Movies Fantasy League team name that I ultimately didn’t go with: A Big Bold Beautiful Furby Tron: Taurus If I Had Wigs I’d Gag You [Michael Constantine voice] “Sinners!” But I ultimately went with:

The most endearing feature of Paul Thomas Anderson's propulsive One Battle After Another becomes a reflection on parental ties, whether in found or biological families. Read our review: thefilmstage.com/one-battle-a...

People get serious and play it’s go time Also roof for The B-Siders and me and @codonnell.bsky.social if you’re a @tfsbside.bsky.social fan!!! moviegame.vulture.com

It's not too late to join the @vulture.com Movie Game and compete against me as one of the FITWarriors! Or you could be loyal to @chrisjrosen.bsky.social instead and join team Prestige Junkie. Both good choices, see you there! moviegame.vulture.com

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another and more of the best films now playing in theaters:

Kathryn Bigelow imagines a nuclear attack on the U.S. in the full trailer for A House of Dynamite, premiering at NYFF this weekend and arriving next month.

The king has returned.

On a new episode of Emulsion, Nick Newman talks to Dennis Lim about his sixth year leading the New York Film Festival in all its challenges, complexities, and pleasures.

If you’re still on a Redford kick I can’t recommend THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR enough. It’s Redford’s best directing work imo, and a very timely story about choosing not to be complicit in your own demise.

Mike Figgis' MEGADOC is key to understanding what Megalopolis is and what hamstrung it, and maybe that greatness wasn’t its destiny.

David Osit gives viewers a lot to wrestle with in #Predators, his documentary about the reality show To Catch a Predator, which captured the zeitgeist of the early 2000s. Read @djmecca.bsky.social's review:

"The audience that I wanted to see Predators most is the audience that wasn’t going to expect what it is." We talk to Predators director David Osit about Chris Hansen's reaction and crafting one of the most fascinating documentaries of the year:

Shia LaBeouf thinks he can out-direct Francis Ford Coppola in our exclusive clip from Mike Figgis' MEGADOC.

A guide on how/where to see the movie of the year/decade.

For @letterboxd.social's WATCHLIST THIS! I wrote about Neo Sora's rebellious teenage dystopian film HAPPYEND.

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes love letters to Brooklyn, Michigan and Finland, as well as a chilling deconstruction of true crime and a futuristic teen disaster movie. boxd.it/2IM

I’m going to love this movie

If you've not seen THE GREAT WALDO PEPPER or THE HOT ROCK, no time like the present

Everyone’s going to be recommending their favorite underappreciated Robert Redford performance. This one’s mine. #filmsky 📽

RIP to a legend

The Criterion Collection will release Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Spike Lee's American Utopia, and—just in time for her son's election as New York's mayor—Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay! this December:

Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell, stars of A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, play Guess Your Movie based on your Letterboxd reviews ✨  Watch the full video ➡️ boxd.it/bMg A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is in theaters September 19 via Sony Pictures.

I would argue Noah Wyle is the best on-screen doctor since there have been on-screen doctors

Much of what goes on in #RabbitTrap is unspoken, challenging viewers to give themselves over to its immersive visual storytelling. Read @judysquirrels.bsky.social's review:

Paul Thomas Anderson discusses the 20-year process of adapting Thomas Pynchon's Vineland for One Battle After Another:

When the director asks me, the producer, for one more when we are behind schedule

The History of Sound, now in theaters, is a tenderly felt drama sung in whisper and sorrow. Read our review:

Sierra Falconer’s directorial debut Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) captures a bittersweet feeling of endings and beginnings, happening at the same time. Read @djmecca.bsky.social's Critic's Pick review:

Eternity, starring Elizabeth Olsen and Miles Teller, is a high-concept relationship comedy that envisions the afterlife like a never-ending theme park vacation. Read our TIFF review:

Complete Chantal Akerman and Terence Davies retrospective, and more films to watch in NYC this week.

Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) director Sierra Falconer talks with @djmecca.bsky.social about crafting her exquisite, Joanna Hogg-backed directorial debut, shooting in Michigan, On Golden Pond, and more:

Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.

My review of Hamnet: ever see a movie and you can’t talk about it with your friend afterwards because you both just start crying again?

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

“What an insane movie, oh my God. It is really incredible." Steven Spielberg praises One Battle After Another and compares it to a Kubrick classic in a special conversation with Paul Thomas Anderson:

Snack Shack and Dinner in America director Adam Carter Rehmeier returns with Carolina Caroline, a humorous crime drama centered on love. Read @jaredmobarak.com's review from the TIFF world premiere:

Am I missing one? boxd.it/Oy5RS

Rian Johnson's Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is another satisfying, impossible-to-predict yarn, yet also Benoit Blanc's weakest outing thus far. Read @schobie.bsky.social's TIFF review:

Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson unravel in the first trailer for Lynne Ramsay’s psychological drama, arriving this November.

Funny enough, if you want to watch the amazing and important documentary Searching for Debra Winger in prep for this month's The Mixed Reviews, it was made available on Youtube by last week's guest Kevin from @almostmajor.bsky.social for free: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwPr...

The brand-new 4K restoration of Edward Yang's masterpiece Yi Yi and more films to see in NYC this weekend: thefilmstage.com/nyc-weekend-...