Film Review Barbie, Pt. 3: My full review! My three-part series on Greta Gerwig's Barbie culminates with my full review.
Film Review Killers of My Substack Journal: New films by Scorsese and Fincher In a season of intensifying violence — in American neighborhoods, and in battlefields of global significance — some of our best filmmakers are telling stories about gun-wielding villains. I've just published thoughts on The Killer and Killers of the Flower Moon.
Film Review Barbie, Pt. 2: Action figures, their accessories, and me In Part Two of my Barbie coverage, I establish some necessary context for my upcoming film review. My history with toy trends is a story of formative influences: Barbies for girls, armed men for boys.
Film Review Barbie, Pt. 1: While frightened men burn dolls, Christian women rave about Barbie's wisdom Greta Gerwig's brilliant blockbuster gets us laughing at the absurdity of real-world hierarchies (including injustices often reinforced in Christian circles to the harm of everyone involved).
Film Review Was Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer inspired by Raiders of the Lost Ark? Christopher Nolan seems to be remaking Steven Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in this profound meditation on America's self-righteous obsession with coercive violence and apocalyptic firepower.
Film Review Showing Up (2023) Kelly Reichardt's latest depicts the day-to-day challenges of artmaking with such truthfulness that artists may find it almost too familiar.
Film Review Peter Pan and Wendy (2023) David Lowery's "Peter Pan and Wendy" gives us a glimpse of the unconventionally meditative and innovative adaptation that might have been. But what it actually is? That might well be the result of studio interference, judging from these strangely incoherent results.
Film Review Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) Most people missed the long-awaited adaptation of "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret." in the theater. That's a shame, as it's one of 2023's most enjoyable films so far.
Film Review They Cloned Tyrone (2023) The new Netflix sci-fi comedy features John Boyega and Jamie Foxx in their best performances in years.
Film Review Rye Lane (2023) This rom-com from newcomer Raine Allen Miller just might be the meet-cutest film of the year.
Film Review Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning (2023) Here's a preview of Overstreet's thoughts on the latest Mission: Impossible movie.
Film Review The Balcony Movie (2022) Pawel Łoziński offers us the privilege of meeting his neighbors in a documentary full of chance encounters and surprises.
Give Me Some Light Recovery Report: My first surgery and Asteroid City! I'm on drugs! Writing about Wes Anderson!
Film Review How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2023) Daniel Goldhaber's film about desperate measures for desperate times is one of the year's most critically acclaimed films, and it's now available for rental on AppleTV+ and other streaming platforms.
Kelly Reichardt First impressions of the film Showing Up Kelly Reichardt's latest plays on a wavelength that will make true artists — artists for whom art-making is life, and who find the world a hostile environment — "feel seen."
Film Review Second star to the right and straight on 'til... mourning? First impressions of the straight-to-Disney-Plus "Peter Pan and Wendy"
Film Review Return to Seoul (2023) If we don't know the context we came from, or the biology from which we were born, we might face particular challenges in figuring out who we are. That's the idea that drives Freddie on an erratic journey of self-discovery and reinvention in this riveting film.
Film Review All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2023) This Oscar-nominated documentary exposes corporate cruelty from a voice of experience and a heart of compassion.
Film Review An open letter to Kelly Fremon Craig about her outstanding new all-ages crowd-pleaser First Impressions of "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret."
Rye Lane First impressions of Rye Lane This meet-cute rom-com from newcomer Raine Allen Miller just might be the meet-cutest.
