Prequels Scene of the Day

  Long and short of it: If you've read the comics, skip the series as it's a bad adaptation that adds very little. If you haven'...

Just got out of Jordan Peele's NOPE and am jotting down this quick review. Before I get to any spoilers, let me say: yes it's good a...

 [Note: I feel there should already be a term for this and pre-existing writing on this spectrum. But I can't find it, so I am inventing...

There is so much to say about this movie, it's hard to know where to start. The filmmaking team of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert go s...

 A riddle: What is and is not a Batman movie? The Batman, apparently. Yes. There will be spoilers. In some ways it's very easy to say th...

  Scott Alexander wrote a review of Don’t Look Up, and then tongue-in-cheek defended it with: Look, there’s a weird game called “movie criti...

 After I published my best of 2022 list, I also saw the Matrix (bad) and Station Eleven (good) and the discourse topic du jour "Don...