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Zipping frenetically from one set piece to the next and incorporating a dizzying array of genres, Paul Thomas Anderson’s incendiary portrait of modern America, One Battle After Another, is the worthy winner of this year’s poll, writes Michael Koresky www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

If you and a parent (or child) ever bonded over shared love of movies, this beautiful remembrance by film critic and programmer Michael Koresky will make you all misty. It's about the experience of watching movies with his mother. Signed by the author. mzs.press/SIGNED-Films...

I'm delighted that Michael invited me to do this with him. His new book Sick & Dirty is so sharp and smart, and every one of these eight movies will hold your attention--some because of the very elements that make them profoundly screwed-up, and some because they're wonderful.

A Few Great Pumpkins @reverseshot.bsky.social; Wesley Morris, @eshynes.bsky.social, and @robert-emmet.bsky.social on more scary movies; @fredmkaplan.bsky.social + @sshaviro.bsky.social on Kathryn Bigelow; MUBI roundtable on Radu Jude … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Michael Koresky launches A Few Great Pumpkins XX: “This is dark, silly, but also genuinely nasty stuff, and, while keeping its horrific violence off-screen, THE BAD SEED gets under the skin in ways unlike any other movie.” @reverseshot.bsky.social — reverseshot.org/archive/entr...

The best thriller of 2025 is Geeta Gandbhir's harrowing documentary THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR. For @reverseshot.bsky.social, I spoke with Gandbhir during #NYFF63 about subverting the inherent dehumanizing of police bodycam videos to empathetically record a community.

happy to be back @reverseshot.bsky.social with a new installment of Event Horizon! i write on David Osit’s doc “Predators” and trace Chris Hansen’s influence on online predator hunters… reverseshot.org/features/338...

All five essays of the Reverse Shot mini-symposium on Hideo Kojima, his career, and his themes, have officially made it up. I encourage you to read through them if you ever want a journey through his work told by five unique writers. reverseshot.org/series/12/to...

Adored Richard Linklater's BLUE MOON, playing this week at NYFF and releasing soon. The film uses the breakdown of Rodgers and Hart's creative partnership to tease out age-old paradoxes between art and commerce, hope and despair, commitment and compromise. My review: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

We're in the thick of our ongoing coverage of NYFF 2025. Check out our in-depth reviews with more titles added daily. reverseshot.org/reviews

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is a succinct description of organizing/activism, raising a kid, or just trying to exist in this fuckin’ country. I wrote about Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest for @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

The exquisite, deeply moving SUNSET SONG today at 4 p.m. at Museum of the Moving Image with star Agyness Deyn in person! This big-screen must-see closes out the series Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past. movingimage.org/event/sunset...

Day 3 of MoMI's Terence Davies series features a triple dose of sublime cinema: his sole documentary OF TIME AND THE CITY, Gena Rowlands in THE NEON BIBLE (in 16mm, with costar Jacob Tierney in person), and Davies's devastating final film, BENEDICTION. movingimage.org/series/teren...

If you don't know THE TERENCE DAVIES TRILOGY—his first 3 shorts—then you don't know Terence Davies. Some of the most indelible images you'll ever see. Screening this Sat afternoon, once only, in imported 35mm prints at Museum of the Moving Image. movingimage.org/event/the-te...

We're talking ROPE tomorrow with Michael Koresky on our first ever Hitchcock pod! Michael wrote about the film extensively in his latest book—Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness—which you really REALLY should get your hands on soon

BOYS GO TO JUPITER, with its timelessly melancholic portrait of youth situated in a ravaged economy, is one of my fave films of the year. I talked to Julian Glander about how Blender changed his life, eggs, and being on Jeopardy! for @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/interviews/e...

if you have not seen the House of Mirth, then you haven't seen one of the best movies of the last 25 years

Excited to announce in-person guests celebrating the great Terence Davies at MoMI in Sept: Cynthia Nixon (A QUIET PASSION), Agyness Deyn (SUNSET SONG), Jacob Tierney (THE NEON BIBLE), and Sony Pictures Classics' Michael Barker (THE HOUSE OF MIRTH). More info here: movingimage.org/series/teren...

I wrote about the classic queer film TAXI ZUM KLO for Reverse Shot ( @reverseshot.bsky.social ). It's currently playing at The Metrograph in NYC and you should definitely go watch it if you can. reverseshot.org/features/334...

Come to Museum of the Moving Image in September to celebrate one of the greatest artists the cinema has ever known. Announcing the complete retrospective Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past: movingimage.org/series/teren...

For @reverseshot.bsky.social I talked about alienation, sigma cinema, and the master Kiyoshi Kurosawa's new movie Cloud reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

I’ve been an avid reader of Reverse Shot and its marvellous coterie of writers for years, so it’s a honest thrill to make my debut there, on Ari Aster’s prickly, perverse, brilliant EDDINGTON. (Thank you to Michael Koresky for being a dream editor.)

Pleased to have the estimable @guylodge.bsky.social‬ on Ari Aster's savage and brilliant doomscroll western EDDINGTON:‪ reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

Great talking to Nic!

Tonight!

At Crooked Marquee this week I wrote about Michael Koresky's fantastic new book SICK AND DIRTY: HOLLYWOOD'S GAY GOLDEN AGE AND THE MAKING OF MODERN QUEERNESS. This is what great critical writing is all about. (Not mine, his.)

📅 Tues. 6/10 @ 7PM: We are exicted to welcome Michael Koresky in store for a discussion of his new book "Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness". He will be joined in conversation by arts journalist Loren King. Learn more: buff.ly/ptCRQG9

Publication day!

CAUGHT BY THE TIDES stands as a testament to the film medium’s long-term possibilities. Read @fcardamenis.bsky.social on Jia Zhangke's brilliant new song on 21st-century China. reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

Come to the official SICK AND DIRTY bookstore launch event at Rizzoli Bookstore on June 4! Should be a fun discussion with the terrific @isaacbutler.bsky.social—and, of course, a great opportunity to grab a copy. www.eventbrite.com/e/sick-and-d...

I'm thrilled to share my @reverseshot.bsky.social debut, a review of Songs of Slow Burning Earth. A huge thanks to Michael for his wonderful edits and for the Reverse Shot Writers Workshop. It gave me a much needed injection of inspiration and motivation. t.co/4wB2fpZMsh

Here's all of our #FirstLook2025 writing in one place. Thanks to all the writers and filmmakers who made it such a special week. reverseshot.org/series/30/fi...

Philippe Lesage's terrific WHO BY FIRE explores the moribund passions of the middle-aged, contrasting them with the dizzying, uninitiated passions of youth. Opens this week. Read our new interview with Lesage from Chris Shields: reverseshot.org/interviews/e...

Carson Lund's EEPHUS is "ultimately about a space of ritual and community coming to a close." Read @cadenmgardner.bsky.social's review: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

After many years in the making, I'm very excited to share the news that my book "SICK AND DIRTY: Hollywood's Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness" is coming from @BloomsburyPub in June. You can preorder now! geni.us/sickanddirty

We are pleased to present a new column on international queer cinema. The first is from @kimchimarx.bsky.social on RESURRECTION OF THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL and how its accidental queerness unlocks new possibilities for Korean cinema and language. reverseshot.org/features/329...

For Reverse Shot, I spoke with Zeinabu irene Davis about the rejuvenation of her incredible classic COMPENSATION — a film I think is one of the great films about Chicago, deafness and Black life.

Presenting our Top Ten films of 2024. In honor of David Lynch, for whom words of analysis were somewhat inimical to cinema, we acknowledge that this magazine’s writing has only ever been an attempt at understanding that which we often cannot fully grasp. reverseshot.org/features/329...

breaking from album excitement to say that FLOW, one of the best animated films of the year, is hitting select US cinemas today (it goes nationwide from Dec 6). I interviewed the director Gints Zilbalodis a couple months back in for Reverse Shot: reverseshot.org/interviews/e...

"Mangold buys into and then repackages the hype of Bob Dylan without much care spent on what happens when we treat artists as prophets instead of observers or laborers." @frankfalisi.bsky.social reviews A COMPLETE UNKNOWN: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...