Retrospective

From ‘Mystic Pizza’ to ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding,’ every Julia Roberts rom-com, ranked

Julia Roberts has been many things throughout her storied 35-year career: Tinkerbell, a Flatliner, a Wicked Stepmother, a regular stepmother,… Read More

October 21, 2022

The Original Final Girl: An ode to Laurie Strode and the end of ‘Halloween’

Burn your Laura Dern in Jurassic Park costume, turn off Hocus Pocus and throw your candy in the damn river… Read More

October 19, 2022

‘Jackass: The Movie’: 20 years later, the era of the teenage dirtbag lives on, concussions be damned

The Jackass film franchise is now twenty years old. With four films under their belt (plus three extra bonus feature… Read More

October 19, 2022

‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ at 10: How Stephen Chbosky turned “We accept the love we think we deserve” into a teenage celebration of self [Retrospective]

If you were a certain kind of teenager in 2012, The Perks of Being a Wallflower would've been your Bible.… Read More

October 5, 2022

‘The Ice Storm’ retrospective: How Ang Lee’s 70s suburban American drama remains his most underrated masterpiece

If a director is lucky enough to find success in Hollywood, chances are they will stick with whatever works –… Read More

September 28, 2022

‘Pink Floyd: The Wall’ at 40 retrospective: What the classic concept album turned jaw-dropping rock opera told us about the chilling rise of white male rage

On May 23, 1982, at the Cannes Film Festival, the lights rose after the world premiere screening of Pink Floyd:… Read More

September 12, 2022

‘L.A. Confidential’ retrospective: At 25, still the best neo-noir film of the latter 20th century

Kids today are so spoiled, with their Moonlights and Parasites and Nomadlands and CODAs winning Best Picture at the Oscars.… Read More

September 12, 2022

‘Superbad’ at 15: Still a stupid, fantastic cinematic coming-of-age gift [Retrospective]

To pick an all-time favorite high school film is a deeply personal process, perhaps more so than other film genres.… Read More

August 12, 2022

‘Ruby Sparks’ retrospective: How the 10-year old quirky writer fantasy still feels topical in the way we talk about power, art, muses and love

The titular character of Ruby Sparks first appears in a dream. In the midst of a crippling, neurotic, self-serving writer’s… Read More

July 22, 2022

‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ retrospective: The case for Andrew Garfield as still the best Peter Parker

There’s little denying that 2021 was Andrew Garfield’s year. He starred in three Oscar-nominated films, as the embezzling evangelist Jim… Read More

June 29, 2022

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