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The Oscar Should Go to Bob Ferguson's 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R
'One Battle After Another' as a car movie
Oct 3 • 
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S.E.Z. Noir
A new microgenre
May 30 • 
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A tribute to Gene Hackman in 'Enemy of the State'
The greatest performance in the greatest '90s blockbuster
Feb 28 • 
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Who were the bad guys in '90s Dad Thrillers?
PLUS: One of my favorite websites
Sep 20, 2024 • 
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One weird trick for fixing Hollywood
Plus: the asylum that raised Will Stancil
Apr 26, 2024 • 
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What is the civil war in 'Civil War' about?
'Civil War' as an anti-explainer movie
Apr 19, 2024 • 
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'Dune: Part 2,' annotated
A long, mostly comprehensive, extremely pedantic companion to the 'Dune' sequel
Mar 7, 2024 • 
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Is there a 'Godzilla' of 9/11? Part Two
Surveying alien movies, plane movies, superhero movies, and '90s movies
Jan 26, 2024 • 
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Is there a 'Godzilla' of 9/11?
A taxonomy of 9/11 movies, Part One
Jan 12, 2024 • 
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David Fincher's new movie 'The Killer' is sigma cinema
Fincher as greentext auteur
Nov 10, 2023 • 
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'Brotherhood of the Wolf,' revisited with Indignity's Tom Scocca
On the charms of "Bootleg Cinema"
Sep 8, 2023 • 
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Tom Scocca
The William Friedkin Paranoid-Thriller Double Bill
Two overlooked classics from the great director
Aug 11, 2023 • 
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