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Culture writer at Slate, published in LA Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, THR, and points south. Member: New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, WGA East
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I loved Eldorado Drive. Exquisite bad vibes, like if Jim Thompson wrote about Amway.

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He really thinks this is his Nobel

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

I refuse to sully the perfection of my ballot by actually picking 10 movies and removing it from the realm of infinite possibility

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Fortunato (coughing): You’re certain the Criterion Closet is down here Montresor (picking up a trowel): Definitely. Have you thought about your picks yet

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

Cuomo ‘25: Sugar. In. Water.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

liberal Joe Rogan just dropped

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

BIG NEWS: This morning, @kphipps3000.bsky.social and I have moved The Reveal from Substack to Ghost. You can get the details in the link below. It was a scary decision for us, but we're excited about it and expect to keep this newsletter going long into the future. thereveal.film/the-reveal-h...

submitted 23 hours ago • 27 comments

I will always think of heat like this as Do the Right Thing weather

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

A reminder to check on your elderly neighbors today, but another, more important reminder that many of them will have rigged their homes with traps, waiting for a moment just like this to lure you in. Also, stay hydrated!

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

War … gee, I don’t know

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Amazing. NYT has more confirmation that Trump's decision to bomb Iran was motivated in large part by the way the Israeli strikes were "playing" on Fox News, which drove him to want credit for it

submitted 1 day ago • 421 comments

not to rain on anyone’s parade, but while it’s great to see an overwhelming percentage of Americans don’t think we should go to war with Iran, it’s important to add that a substantial percentage of them aren’t sure if dropping bombs on Iran qualifies as war.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

American Horror Story: America Measles is tearing through whole families (unvaccinated) in Texas. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

this was a blast, with loads of people who’d never seen the film before. If time can redeem Death Becomes Her, What Lies Beneath deserves better than a 3.2 on Letterboxd. And my goodness, that Michelle Pfeiffer performance. God-tier.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

so it’s a war when Iran needs to end it but not when we’re bombing them?

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these are murderous clowns and not even the good kind

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

“Do the thing everyone before has failed at, but good” was their approach to cutting waste and fraud, and that worked out great

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state. That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress: Sit back and do absolutely nothing.

submitted 2 days ago • 181 comments

look, you do not want to be outside today, right? Come get chills from both the movie and the a/c.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A disgrace.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Powerful piece by Tressie McMillan Cottom. “Trump is the Republican Party. That is settled. His violent talk is, then, the official political communication strategy of the ruling party and its followers. And that ruling party is stripping this country for parts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Get well soon, God, we’re all thinking of you

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

You could respond to the largest protests in US history by listening to the protestors. Or you could kill a bunch of people to gin up your approval numbers.

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