Reviews

Time Is a Bitch: On Cinematic Snore Core

Some recent films that try to bore us for the greater good

Dec 23, 2024 •

Review Essay: "It's the End of the World and We Know It"

Three books on our current predicament, plus a little about utopia

Jun 26, 2024 •

Leaving Me My Eyes: Review of The Country of the Blind

My review of Andrew Leland's memoir about losing his vision as an adult, in the Los Angeles Review of Books

Feb 4, 2024 •

Review essay over at Public Books

Jun 21, 2021 •

The Unraveling of “The Unraveling of America”

A rebuttal to Wade Davis

Aug 8, 2020 •

Arrival: Not Quite There

A cranky movie review

Dec 31, 2016 •

Mr. Draper Goes to Town

On Don Draper, New Wave cinema, HAL from 2001, and the Oedipus complex

May 5, 2014 •

"This Land Is Our Land": Season Three of The Killing

On sovereignty, Native land rights, Vancouver, and dead bodies

Sep 12, 2013 •

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