#1074: Top 5 Spider-Man Scenes
25 years of Spidey on screen.
Read More"A good movie is three good scenes and no bad ones” with Billy Mernit | The Movie Racket
Examining the wisdom of Howard Hawks.
Read MoreThe Odyssey: Nolan Makes the Ancient Epic His Own
Sing to me of the man, Muse.
Read More11 Rules for Box Office Appeal with Amy Nicholson | The Movie Racket
A dog is better than a landscape?
Read MoreThe Sorrow and the Pity: Dismantling the Gaullist Myth | Dissident Cinema
Marcel Ophuls’s bracing documentary about French collaboration during the Nazi occupation.
Read More#1073: Top 5 Films of 2026 (So Far)
A strong first half of the year in movies.
Read More"Every film about war ends up being pro-war" with Michael Shannon | The Movie Racket
Does every film about war end up being pro-war?
Read More#1072: Fargo: Lies, Myth, and Murder, plus The Invite
The Coen Brothers’ '96 masterpiece turns 30.
Read MoreInception vs. Interstellar | Movie Death Match
Two Nolan mind-benders enter. Only one leaves.
Read More#1071: Independence Day at 30: America Saves the Universe
1996’s #1 movie is a fascinating product of its era.
Read More#1070: Toy Story 5 and The Death of Robin Hood, plus Rose of Nevada
Pixar tackles the digital age.
Read More#1069: Disclosure Day and The Sheep Detectives
Steven Spielberg gives us another encounter.
Read MoreZ: Costa-Gavras’s Jolting Anti-Fascist Docudrama | Dissident Cinema
The 1969 political thriller helped create the grammar for modern movie paranoia.
Read More#1068: Obsession and Power Ballad: Be Careful What You Wish For
The box office horror hit and John Carney's latest musical crowd-pleaser.
Read MoreNo Regrets for Our Youth: Kurosawa’s Bold Post-War Melodrama
Bringing silent film grammar to a post-war awakening.
Read More#1067: Backrooms and Exit 8: Liminality vs. Narrativity
The insanity-inducing corridors of 2026 liminal horror.
Read MoreClose Encounters of the Third Kind vs. E.T. | Movie Death Match
E.T. phone his lawyer?
Read More#1066: The Mandalorian and Grogu and I Love Boosters
A disappointing cinematic return for Star Wars, and Boots Riley's radical I Love Boosters.
Read More#1065: Tony Leung Talks Silent Friend, Plus Decorado and The Wizard of the Kremlin
How the “In The Mood For Love” legend prepared for his new role.
Read More#1064: The Tree of Life at 15: Malick’s Cosmic Masterpiece Revisited
Nature, Grace, and the Book of Job.
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