”It’s the best baseball movie since Bull Durham — or maybe Bad Lieutenant — because it explores this sport’s peculiar ability to bend and distort time. As the shadows on Soldiers Field get longer, an elegiac ache settles in. Eephus is more than a movie about a game, it’s about reaching a time in your life when it feels like it’s getting late earlier and earlier.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/13/2025
”A droll marriage comedy disguised as an espionage thriller, making clever and sometimes fiendishly funny use of Blanchett’s glamourpuss opacity. Good heavens, can she wear these clothes. Black Bag plays to Soderbergh’s strengths: it’s a classy, jazzy, clockwork contraption full of intricate plot machinery and great-looking movie stars doing movie star shit.” – North Shore Movies, 03/13/2025
“The commonwealth is ready for its closeup. 192 closeups, to be exact. This sprawling, compulsively watchable collage offers clips from nearly 200 movies and television shows shot in and around the Bay State, serving as a travelogue and a history lesson while showcasing the fine work of area production crews who keep the Massachusetts film industry thriving.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/06/2025
”A kooky and digressive sci-fi allegory stew that finds the filmmaker indulging some of his silliest whims while burning through $150 million of Warner Bros. Discovery’s money. I have a soft spot for films like this, when auteurs are allowed to run amok with studio resources. There’s something exhilarating about watching an artist get goofy on such an expensive canvas.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/05/2025
Joined my buddy Blake Howard for a free episode of his weekly film review podcast. We did our best not to drool and make wolf-whistle noises while discussing the great Italian sensualist Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope, an astoundingly beautiful movie about an astoundingly beaufiful woman and the ultimately alienating disruptions she inspires wherever she goes. – One Heat Minute, 03/02/2025
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