Since I responded very powerfully to Emma (2020) a few years ago, I’ve gradually become a Jane Austen appreciator.
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Persuasion (2007)
Author: Dan Stalcup
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Blue Moon (2025)
The most crucial moment in Blue Moon arrives in the very first scene, when the protagonist, Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke), dies.
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Goals for 2026
I write this in the middle of a motivational and creative drought.
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Looking Back: Goals for 2025
We’ve entered the navel-gazing portion of the calendar.
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Hamnet (2025)
The world needs weepies.
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The Perfect Neighbor (2025)
It’s not often you can honestly describe a film as both “exploitative” and “restrained,” but The Perfect Neighbor lives in an unsettling overlap — and gets a lot of its magnetic power from the fact that it pushes past tasteful boundaries in some areas pulls back in others.
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Sentimental Value (2025)
Every time a Scandinavian director gets praised for making a film “reminiscent of Ingmar Bergman,” I brace myself for two hours of immaculate misery and a big, chilly lesson about how people are flawed and feelings are difficult.
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Wicked: For Good (2025)
In 2006, Pitchfork published a review of the album Shine On by Jet with a 0.0 score.
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Wicked (2024)
Imagine me trying, through sheer force of will like Tim Robinson in I Think You Should Leave, to push this into “Good” territory.
Here is my OFCS Awards nominations ballot for 2025.