‘Chasing Chasing Amy’ Review
January 2, 2025
“Chasing Chasing Amy is most moving when it’s about making sense of the stories that allowed us to make sense of ourselves.”
“Secret Keeper”: On Uncanny Adolescence and Lake Mungo
December 18, 2024
“Lake Mungo makes tangible one of the most isolating and harrowing discoveries of adulthood: you cannot be fully understood as you by anyone.”
‘Sweetheart Deal’ Review
December 13, 2024
“At moments, Sweetheart Deal allows us into such deeply vulnerable moments that I fear an almost exploitative flavor. Is this, though, my own bias?”
TIFF ’24 ‘Anora’ Review
December 9, 2024
“Ani is hustling until she’s suddenly seemingly swept up by Vanya in all earnestness, with little signal as to why or how.”
TIFF ’24 ‘Bird’ Review
December 7, 2024
“Bird is a reminder that to daydream out in the fields isn’t frivolous.”
‘Fatal Attraction’ Review
August 31, 2024
“For [Alex] to succeed in attaining Dan means systems like marriage, big houses, and the presumed “natural” progression in the narrative we have been offered over and over of a “proper” life, all become worthless.”
‘Indecent Proposal’ Review
August 30, 2024
“Indecent Proposal is clearly not a movie about sex work. If anything, it’s a movie about how we are all able to be bought.”
The Good Life’s On the Inside: Interior Sexuality in Slums of Beverly Hills
August 29, 2024
“In Slums, Vivian’s pleasure is ultimately an interior matter.”
‘Magic Mike XXL’ Review
August 27, 2024
“In Magic Mike XXL, we are offered a glimpse of utopia.”
A Hot Ghoul Chat With Rachel Elizabeth
August 24, 2024
“I kind of stopped viewing anything I did as really radical.”