The big decade?

There's a scene in David Frankel's The Big Year in which the characters played by Rashida Jones and Jack Black take a break from th...

This Critic Was Wrong: Mistakes from 15 Years of Ranking Movies

This January marks 15 years since I started ranking all the movies I've seen in the previous year, from first to worst. I started the ...

A thousand trips to the movies

I keep track of a lot of personal movie-related statistics, many of which I've discussed here before. One of these is the number of movi...

Celebrating 10 years

I can't tell you the exact date I wrote my first review for the website that employs me as a freelancer. [Name omitted for purposes of m...

Edge of (cinematic) obsession

No, not Mel Gibson for once, that bigoted, misogynistic asshole. He may play an obsessed guy in all his films -- in fact, he surprised me by...