Just a quick but delicious midweek nibble from us here at Breakfast All Day. We review Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of “White Noise,” which is a whole lot of movie (and most of it isn’t good). In news, we discuss box office, Bong Joon-ho’s “Mickey 17,” the “Harry & Meghan” documentary...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast
Breakfast All Day Podcast 12/28/19
We’re so happy to be with you one last time before 2019 ends to bring you reviews of two of the year’s best films (as well as a follow-up discussion on one of the worst). Alonso, Matt and I discuss Greta Gerwig’s excellent adaptation of “Little Women” and Sam Mendes’...
Read moreOscar Picks 2018
Apparently, I didn’t do any Oscar picks last year. Just straight-up blew it off. Unless maybe I did try to make the impossible choice between whether “La La Land” or “Moonlight” should win best picture, and what I wrote just evaporated into the ether. Either way, I’m back with some...
Read moreOscar Nominations 2018
It’s felt like a pretty wide-open awards season so far, but this morning’s Oscar nominations helped it take some shape — “The Shape of Water,” that is. (Yes, I hate myself, too, for that pun.) But Guillermo del Toro’s dark and swoony retro romance becomes even more of the favorite...
Read more10 Best Films of 2017
Narrowing down the best films of the year to just 10 is always a daunting process. There have been so many great movies this year, and I’ve had the opportunity to see a lot more of them than usual as a member of a couple different award committees and, of...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Maggie’s Plan
Echoes of Woody Allen and Noah Baumbach are unmistakable in Rebecca Miller’s romantic comedy about narcissistic, intellectual New York academics falling in and out of love with each other. Writer-director Rebecca Miller’s comic dialogue sparkles, but the dramatic underpinnings don’t work quite as well. My mixed RogerEbert.com review. Read the...
Read more5 Great David Bowie Songs in Films
Like the rest of the world, I woke up this morning to the impossibly sad news that David Bowie had died. He was so enduring and influential — ever-changing yet timeless — that it seems impossible he’s no longer here. Hell, my 6-year-old knows “Under Pressure” because it plays during...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — The Humbling
Al Pacino dials it down and does some of his best work in a long time as a veteran actor struggling to regain his former glory. If that premise sounds a lot like “Birdman,” well, yes — that is an unfortunate coincidence. But Pacino’s performance is the strongest element in...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — Best of 2013
Ben, Alonso and I choose our favorite movies from 2013. You all know that my No. 1 pick is: “Gravity.” But what did the guys select? The anticipation is agonizing, isn’t it?...
Read more10 Best Films of 2013
This is my favorite part of being a critic: the privilege of choosing the 10 best films of the year. In a year like 2013, it’s incredibly hard to narrow it down to just 10. I probably could have picked 10 more, easily — but the internal debate is part...
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