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The @InRO Substack is officially live! This is a labor of love by the estimable @CCassingham, so we hope you join us. Subscribe now for bi-weekly newsletters of curated writing from our amazing critics, as well as Substack-exclusive features and essays throughout the week! inreviewonline.substack.com/…
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I can’t believe how many people are still discovering and watching “Strawberry Mansion.” For instance, I counted 30 new reviews for the film on Letterboxd since yesterday. Anyway, thought I’d repost my essay on the making of the film to our new Substack. personhouse.substack.com/p/t…
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For @ebertvoices, I had the privilege to write about IS GOD IS, 1 of the best films of the year. It’s the way dir. Aleshea Harris fills the contours of this timeless revenge tale, w/ Moses Sumney’s score, Alexander Dynan’s genteel cinematography, that gives this staying power:
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A couple weekends back, I had a lovely chat with Josh O'Connor and Emily Blunt. You can watch the full interview in the link below and also see my pink pants that Emily told me I was "rocking well"
Jun 10
Disclosure Day stars Josh O’Connor and Emily Blunt look back on filming their first scenes of the film 🎥 Watch the full interview ➡️ boxd.it/hk8
The film opens worldwide on June 12.
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beyond being an actor, Paul Newman ought to be remembered as a major American director, whose talents put him in league with Tourneur, Naruse, Bergman, Nick Ray, etc. more work needs to be done here.
(stills from my two favs of his, films in desperate need of restoration)
ALT The Shadow Box (1980)
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'Scary Movie reads as a somewhat desperate attempt at re-capturing our attention by reviving a stale format that noticeably has a lot of catching up to do with the cultural touchstones of the moment.' inreviewonline.com/2026/06/0…
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'As overseen by director and Laika CEO Travis Knight, whose last project was the similarly-minded Bumblebee, Masters of the Universe is eager to please, luxuriating in a joke-driven atmosphere in a bid to ease newcomers in. Trouble is, the film also draws heavily from the MCU’s Thor and Guardians of the Galaxy entries, striking while the iron is cold for an overlong, unimaginative adventure. What should be a launchpad for a new series, then, instead functions more roundly as a death knell for 1980s nostalgia.' @JakeTropila takes a trip to Eternia and finds a big pile of nothing: inreviewonline.com/2026/06/0…
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'when we talk about this film, we might say it’s a film about grief, but that also means it’s very much a film about life. It’s about living with grief and figuring out how to live and how to be alive when not everyone you love is here and when bad things happen in life and grappling with that' @BrndnStrssng chats with Lilian T. Mehrel about film festivals and her new film Honeyjoon: inreviewonline.com/2026/06/1…
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'Spielberg’s career-long fondness for shots of people looking in awe at something gets a self-reflexive workout — there’s as much investigation as to why people are drawn to seeking out images as there was in his roman á clef autobiography The Fabelmans, but through the lens of conspiracy and paranoia like those of his New Hollywood contemporaries.' @CommuterFilm investigates Disclosure Day: inreviewonline.com/2026/06/1…
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'If an actor trains for one week, they can learn it. Everybody can do that. But if you are playing a Taekwondo master, that’s not easy. You need at least two or three years of training. So now, because everybody tries to do action movies, cross-combat is more suitable. But yes, it’s always changing. Before, it was just kicking, punching, maybe flipping. Now it’s jiu-jitsu, MMA-influenced fighting, ground attacks. Things like that.' @BrndnStrssng sits down with Kenji Tanigaki to discuss his new film The Furious and the ever-evolving nature of on-screen combat: inreviewonline.com/2026/06/1…
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For the night crowd: the latest @InRO newsletter is live. Included are my musings on the YouTube director discourse; new reviews, interviews & essays; articles from the archive, and a peek at upcoming Substack-only articles! Subscribe to get it all! inreviewonline.substack.com/…
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The Great Texas Dynamite Chase is fucking awesome I wish more people talked about it
Jun 5
'I like the grindhouse exploitation stuff — movies like The Great Texas Dynamite Chase [1976], Dixie Dynamite [1976], and other obvious movies like Badlands [1973], Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw [1976], Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry [1974]. It was just films of the ’70s that were like: hot girl, hot guy, muscle car. I love a genre mashup, and so I saw this as a road movie but also a bank robbery movie, and a romantic movie, and then ultimately a tragedy. I wanted to make sure it was about two people falling in love.' @gayle_sequeira sits down with Adam Carter Rehmeier to chat about his new film Carolina Caroline: inreviewonline.com/2026/06/0…
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Jun 10
New on the @inro Substack: Milo Garner on Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich's "Dishonored" and "The Scarlet Empress". Subscribe to read the full essay and receive our bi-weekly newsletter! inreviewonline.substack.com/…
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First of two Steven Spielberg pieces for @InRO : DISCLOSURE DAY is an eccentric, mystical Spielberg but I quite liked it. One for fans of cross-cutting
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'I like the grindhouse exploitation stuff — movies like The Great Texas Dynamite Chase [1976], Dixie Dynamite [1976], and other obvious movies like Badlands [1973], Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw [1976], Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry [1974]. It was just films of the ’70s that were like: hot girl, hot guy, muscle car. I love a genre mashup, and so I saw this as a road movie but also a bank robbery movie, and a romantic movie, and then ultimately a tragedy. I wanted to make sure it was about two people falling in love.' @gayle_sequeira sits down with Adam Carter Rehmeier to chat about his new film Carolina Caroline: inreviewonline.com/2026/06/0…
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'Adam Carter Rehmeier’s Carolina Caroline is the sort of film online cinephiles love to bemoan “they don’t make anymore,” a grounded crime thriller for adults, free of the confines of IP branding, that stars beautiful people and a healthy but not gratuitous amount of sex. If the promise of solid, muscular entertainment is often enough to make a movie worthwhile, the pitfalls of consciously making films in familiar molds are self-evident: they don’t make ‘em like this anymore because they already did, many times over.' inreviewonline.com/2026/06/0…
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The latest @InRO newsletter is in subscriber inboxes! Featuring: my short musings on the discourse du jour, new reviews, interviews & features, plus a preview of more Substack exclusive writing in the pipeline! Subscribe to get it all for free...for now... open.substack.com/pub/inrevi…
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FOR THE NIGHT CROWD: we published a new essay on the @InRO Substack today, on Lisandro Alonso's revolutionary debut feature "La Libertad" and its relationship to his unexpected follow-up "Double Freedom." inreviewonline.substack.com/…
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'Wilder and collaborator Charles Brackett took Jackson’s novel as an opportunity to depict alcoholism unflinchingly and without distraction. These successes are evident in the script and performances. But looking beyond the surface, there’s a subversive element in film noir styling to further elevate these thematic goals' Michael Piantini revisits Billy Wilder's classic The Lost Weekend for @kickingthecanon inreviewonline.com/2026/05/2…
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'Rash’s screenplay, though, has tendencies toward cliché and emotional overkill, particularly acute when Jamie and Diane devolve into heated arguments, which are exhaustingly verbose and hammer home obvious aspects of character and theme. As a director, Rash’s visual strategy and deference to his actors render these textual flaws all the more apparent and dull the effectiveness of the two central performances' inreviewonline.com/2026/06/0…
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'While Herzi’s approach to her protagonist, combined with Nadia Melliti’s grounded performance, demonstrates emotional intelligence and sincerity, the film’s latent instrumentalization of identity politics and its occasional narrative sloppiness result in a half-baked work' @FerideMercury on Hafsia Herzi's The Little Sister: inreviewonline.com/2025/05/2…
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