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Film Criticism
THE SPOOL
“Beau Is Afraid” is a hilarious epic that revels in the absurdity of fear, April 2023
“Nanny” illustrates the horror of the American Dream with West African folklore, November 2022
Angelyne’s story of an LA icon raises the bar for docu-dramas, May 2022
“Licorice Pizza” suffers in shying away from an uncomfortable subject, November 2021
“C’mon C’mon” Is a Beautiful Breath of Fresh Air, November 2021
Boosting the signal of 2001’s cult space Western musical The American Astronaut, September 2021
“Fake Famous” Asks the Question “What Price, Instagram Fame?”, February 2021
How Horror Films Are Getting Me Through COVID, September 2020
“I’m Thinking of Ending Things” Will Shake You to Your Core, September 2020
Assembling the Avengers, April 2020
“Paterson” & the Secret Poet Hearts That Beat Within Us, January 2020
“You’ve Got Mail” and the Fight for a Vulnerable Life, November 2019
“Fight Club,” “Fleabag” and the Battle Against Toxic Masculinity, October 2019
“Another Life” Review: Boldly Goes Where Every Sci-fi Show Has Gone Before, July 2019
Gentleman Jack Review: HBO Flaunts England’s First Modern Lesbian, April 2019
THE CINESSENTIAL
Why I Won’t Watch the Handmaid’s Tale: On the Freedom of Opting Out, June 2018
White Audiences and the Legacy of Malcolm X, November 2017
A Nightmare on Elm Street in Context: Fears Real and Imagined in 1984, October 2017
Herzog, the Jungle, and Me: Notes on Iquitos and the "Conquest of the Useless", August 2017
Film as Fabric, July 2017
Radio Raheem, Trayvon Martin & Black Lives Matter, April 2017
No Country for Old Men: Opening Statement, December 2016
The Invisibility of Female Antiheroes, August 2016
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