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Whither the Watch List in 2024?

The 20 Best Movies of 2023

Xmas Special: The 70 Good Movies on Netflix

Classics of the New Millennium: "The Tree of Life" (2011) with guest filmmaker Alex Winter

A Holiday Reminder

Watch List Weekly Recap 12/15/23

What To Watch: Five for the Weekend

Substackers Against Nazis

Boston Crix Name "Holdovers" Best of 2023

Watch List Weekly Recap 12/8/23

What to Watch: "Poor Things" and "The Boy and the Heron"

Classics of the New Millennium: "Phantom Thread" (2017) with guest critic Hunter Harris

Watch List Weekly Recap 12/1/23

What to Watch: "'Burn" After Seeing

Born Today: Busby Berkeley/Don Cheadle

Classics of the New Millennium: "Paterson" (2016) with guest critic Glenn Kenny

Watch List Weekly Recap 11/25/23

What to Watch: Turkey Murder Day Edition

Watch List Weekly Recap 11/18/23

What to Watch: "May December"

Five (and a Half) Movies About Palestine

One Good Film: "The Killer" (Fincher, 2023)

Watch List Weekly Recap 11/10/23

You Can't Do That

Eyeless in Newton

One Good Film: "Listen Up Philip"(2014)

Watch List Weekly Recap 11/3/23

What to Watch: Free Radicals

Director Q&A: No Payne, No Gain

Panic Rooms

Matthew Perry 1969-2023

Watch List Weekly Recap 10/27/23

What to Watch: "The Holdovers"

Watch List Weekly Recap 10/20/23

What To Watch: "Killers of the Flower Moon"

One Good Film: "Short Term 12" (2013)

Watch List Weekly Recap 10/13/23

What To Watch: "Once Within A Time"

One Good Film: "Benediction"

Watch List Weekly Recap 10/6/23

What to Watch: "Don't Ask Me" Edition

Watch List Weekly Recap 9/15/23

Toronto Report III: Batting Clean-up

Toronto Film Festival Report, Part II

Toronto Film Festival Report, Part I

Watch List Weekly Recap 9/8/23

TIFF 2023: The Preview

One Good Film: "Two Days, One Night" (2015)

Watch List Weekly Recap 9/1/23

What to Watch: "Bottoms"

Classics of the New Millennium: "There Will Be Blood" (2007) with guest critic Manohla Dargis

One -- no -- TWO Good Films

Watch List Weekly Recap 8/25/23

What to Watch: Late August is Kinda Mid

How Much (Plot) Is Too Much?

One Good Film: "Diane" (2019)

Watch List Weekly Recap 8/18/23

Five Weird (But Good) Things to Watch on Netflix

One Good Film: "Cèline and Julie Go Boating"

Watch List Weekly Recap 8/4/23

Classics of the New Millennium: "Inside Man" (2006) with Wesley Morris

William Friedkin 1935-2023

One Good Film: Mystery Trip Edition

Watch List Weekly Recap 8/4/23

What To Watch: The Good, The Bad, and The Horny

Paul Reubens 1952-2023

One Good Film: "The Illusionist" (2006)

Watch List Weekly Recap 7/21/23

"Barbenheimer" Weekend Pt. II: "Oppenheimer" (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 1/2)

"Barbenheimer" Weekend Part I: "Barbie" (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 1/2)

Watch List Year 2: The Author Thanks You

Watch List Weekly Recap 7/14/23

What to Watch on VOD: "The League"

Review: "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One"

One Good Film: "The Fits" (2016)

Watch List Weekly Recap 7/7/23

What To Watch: Six Streaming Picks

Classics of the New Millennium: "No Country For Old Men" (2007) with Isaac Feldberg

One Good Film: "Little Murders" (1971)/R.I.P. Alan Arkin

Watch List Weekly Recap 6/1/23

What to Watch: "Godland," "After Love," "No Hard Feelings."

Classics of the New Millennium: "Burning" (2018) with Justin Chang

The TCM Doomsday Clock is Ticking.

One Good Film (While It Lasts): "Lingua Franca"

Watch List Weekly Recap 6/17/23

What To Watch: Go Wes, Young Man

Glenda Jackson 1936-2023

Zen Diary: A Bird List Grows in Brooklyn

One Good Film: "We Are The Best!" (2013)

Watch List Weekly Recap 6/9/23

What to Watch: Kink's Ransom

Which 5 Classics Would You Show a Teenager in 2023?

Classics of the New Millennium: "The Social Network" with Odie Henderson

One Good Film: "The Sisters Brothers" (2018)

Watch List Weekly Recap 6/2/23

What To Watch: "Past Lives," Present Sins

Off With Their Heads

One Good Movie: "Three Identical Strangers"

Watch List Weekly Recap 5/26/23

What to Watch (and Who To Mourn)

Classics of the New Millennium: "Her" with guest critic Amy Nicholson

One Good Film: "What Maisie Knew"

Watch List Weekly Recap 5/19/23

What To Watch: Planter's Punch

Sleeper Patrol: 5 on Amazon Prime

Two Passings

Watch List Weekly Recap 5/12/23

What to Watch:The Indomitable Mr. Fox

Cage Match

Birds That Remind Me of Movies

Watch List Weekly Recap 5/5/23

What To Watch: Strike Edition

Blood On The Tracks

I Want My Maypole

Watch List Weekly Recap 4/28/23

What to Watch: Forward, Into the Past

Classics of the New Millennium: "The Death of Stalin" with Sam Adams

Forgotten Auteurs: Alan Rudolph

Watch List Weekly Recap 4/21/23

What To Watch: Oedipus Wrecked

Support Your Local Film Festival

Must-Read TV?

Watch List Weekly Recap 4/14/23

What to Watch: Present, Tense

12 Good Movies on Netflix Right Now

Join me on Notes

Tonight Only: "Prisioneros De La Terra"

Watch List Weekly Recap 4/7/23

What to Watch: "Air" Apparent

Classics of the New Millennium: "Michael Clayton" with Mason Daring

Notes on a Change of Season

Watch List Weekly Recap 3/30/23

What To Watch: Post-Op Edition

The full Keanu: Mellowest guy on the planet to onscreen killing machine

Watch List Weekly Recap 3/24/23

Bardo, or Unforeseen Consequences of a Medical Intervention

Watch List Weekly Recap 3/7/23

Classics of the New Millennium: "4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days" with Dana Stevens

Happy Birthday, Michael Caine

Everything Everywhere All at the Oscars

Watch List Weekly Recap 3/10/23

Up the Academy: Oscar Predictions 2023

Oscar-nominated Shorts: The Lowdown

Watch List Weekly Recap 3/3/23

What to Watch: Seoul Sisters

Classics of the New Millennium: "Ocean's 11" with Jason Bailey

Forward March

Watch List Weekly Recap 2/24/23

What to Watch: Literary Lions, Donkeys, and Cocaine Bears, Oh My.

True Grift

Watch List Weekly Recap 2/17/23

The Watchcast: "Under the Skin" with David Fear

Watch List Weekly Recap 2/10/23

New in Theaters: Where's the Beef?

11 Movies to Stream in February

Watch List Weekly Recap 2/3/23

What To Watch: "Poker Face"

Tom Verlaine 1949-2023

Watch List Weekly Recap 1/27/23

Sundance 2023 Report, Part III

Sundance 2023 Report, Part II

Oscar Nominations 2023

Sundance 2023 Report I

Watch List Weekly Recap 1/20/23

What To Watch: The Passions of Anna (Kendrick)

Motion Sickness

Watch List Weekly Recap 1/13/23

Saints, Sinners, Soldiers, and Slackers

The 127 Good Movies on Netflix (2023 Edition)

Watch List Weekly Recap 1/6/23

What To Watch: Whistling in the Dark Edition

32 Movies (and 5 Indictments) I'd Like to See in 2023.