Film Editor @TheAVClub // Video Game Movie Expert // Southerner in Chicago
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Joined February 2011
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Jennifer Coolidge hits a fleshy video game monster with her car, and that's not even the weirdest moment of A Minecraft Movie.
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A Minecraft Movie is somehow both the most annoyingly generic version of a video game adaptation AND the most "anything goes" adaptation since Mario and Luigi went to Dinohattan avclub.com/a-minecraft-movie…
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It's nice that Snow White actually tries some new things (even if they mostly fail)! Rachel Zegler is a movie star. Gal Gadot is terrible. The hard drives that store the dwarfs should be taken out back and beaten with bats, Office Space style avclub.com/snow-white-review
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In this excerpt from my book CINEMA HER WAY, Karyn Kusama talks about JENNIFER’S BODY, DESTROYER, and JEANNE DIELMAN!
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Mickey 17 is as shaggy as its furry little alien grubs but another hilarious little alien grub (Robert Pattinson) makes the whole wild, angry mess hang together: avclub.com/mickey-17-review
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Back on my Stephen King beat writing about Oz Perkins, The Monkey, and the personal ways we greet death avclub.com/the-monkey-page-t…
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I have been a hater of the completely incoherent governmental politics of superhero movies since minute one, and I am very happy @JacobOller gave me support to interrogate why for @TheAVClub.
Mr President, you are a hulk.
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Now that it's on Criterion and not just available from rips of a decade-old Italian MGM DVD, I dug into Godard's King Lear for The A.V. Club: avclub.com/cult-of-criterion…
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Another day, another Sundance dispatch, covering the following:
Love, Brooklyn
Heightened Scrutiny
Middletown
Zodiac Killer Project
Endless Cookie
OBEX
Serious People
Rains Over Babel
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My second Sundance 2025 dispatch is all about docs! Ft. the following:
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Come See Me In The Good Light
The Dating Game
Move Ya Body: The Birth Of House
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Coexistence, My Ass!
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My first Sundance 2025 dispatch, covering:
By Design (good, weird!)
The Ugly Stepsister (good, nasty!)
Dead Lover (weird, kinda grating)
The Things You Kill (riveting, mind-bendy)
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I got to sneak a peek at a slew of Sundance films + wrote up the ones you shouldn't miss! A medieval looksmaxxing nightmare, a charming medical doc, a cerebral Iranian thriller, a lo-fi "go into the video game" fantasy, an endearing lake-based anthology: avclub.com/sundance-2025-mos…
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The 2025 Sundance Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, and we've got a sneak peek at some of the movies that shouldn't be missed:
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Take a big bite off this "fascinating morsel of chaos." GRAND THEFT HAMLET is now playing!
Q&A tonight & tomorrow with directors Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane. ifccenter.com/films/grand-th…
As someone who watched a lot of machinima and runs in circles that are always streaming something or another, I found Grand Theft Hamlet a fascinating morsel of chaos. Me @TheAVClub: avclub.com/grand-theft-hamle…
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I cried a little trying to express what I found so transcendently beautiful — and strangely comforting— about David Lynch and his work.
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There's a lot I admire and find relatable about Wolf Man, but it feels deeply torn between its anxious sadness and its duty as a Blumhouse monster movie. My review at @TheAVClub: avclub.com/wolf-man-review
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Who is Michael Mann's most frequent movie-star collaborator? Would you have guessed that it's Jamie Foxx? With a new Foxx movie out this Friday, I looked back at the three FoxxMann movies; one of them has his best performance ever. avclub.com/together-again-ja…
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Grand Theft Hamlet finds chaotic beauty when it allows itself to let loose.
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For this month's Cult Of Criterion, @JacobOller writes about Jimmy Stewart's hard-edged Western, Winchester '73:
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