We’ve got a quick, midweek nibble for you on Breakfast All Day, but we promise it’s packed with nutrients. Alonso and I review “On the Count of Three,” comedian Jerrod Carmichael’s directorial debut; it’s a comedy about suicide, and we were so impressed with the tough tonal balance Carmichael strikes....
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Breakfast All Day Podcast 3/11/22
We are bursting with panda excitement — and angst, and boy-band lust — this week on Breakfast All Day. Alonso and I review the latest from Pixar Animation, “Turning Red,” which we both really enjoyed. We also review the Netflix sci-fi comedy “The Adam Project,” which … we both really...
Read more10 Worst Films of 2018
It’s been a year of changes around here, but it has remained a pleasure and a source of pride to be able to review films for a living. I still have six jobs and I have no job, as I like to say — it’s just that those jobs sometimes...
Read more10 Best Films of 2018
It’s a great privilege of the gig, yet it’s always such an agonizing process. How do you choose the 10 best films of each year? And how do you rank them? I went with the ones that most moved me emotionally and wowed me technically, yet there are many more...
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 Worst Movies of 2017
The best part of being a film critic is you get to see everything. The worst part of being a film critic is … you get to see everything, whether you want to or not. Earlier this week, I posted my list of the 10 best films of 2017. Here are my...
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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 more10 — Er, 11 — Worst Films of 2016
This was a really terrible year in a lot of ways and for a lot of reasons, but it especially sucked when it came to movies. The good ones were very, very good — look no further than my 2016 top-10 list for examples — but the bad ones were...
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I realize I haven’t written nearly enough reviews this year and I have a million excuses for that: being busy with Nic’s school, his skating, my skating, What the Flick?!, various radio shows, trying to read actual books. But I promise you I see everything, and I keep a running...
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