The Best Horror Films Ever Made

Rolling Stone asked a group of critics to pen the write-ups for its list of the 101 best horror movies of all time. Very honored to be part of the group. You can see my contributions (and everyone else's) here.

Five Replacements for 'The Green Knight'

David Lowery's latest was supposed to come out last Friday. The pandemic changed that. For Vulture, we offer some alternatives worth streaming, including his terrific A Ghost Story. Here's the list.

Venice 2019: The Wrap-Up and the Rankings

There are still a few days left in this year's Venice Film Festival -- and some high-profile movies yet to be unveiled from the likes of Roy Andersson, Shannon Murphy and Ciro Guerra -- but I'm off to Toronto, where the next wave of films awaits. My overall impression of my first Venice? It's a really lovely place to watch movies, with a very different vibe than Cannes. Also? I very much enjoyed navigating a festival on a bike. It made the whole experience more active and invigorating, simply because of the action of pedaling from place to place. I hope to do it all again next year.

Below is a ranking of everything I saw at this year's festival, with links leading to individual reviews. I went back and forth between my Nos. 1 and 2. But No. 16 was painfully obvious. Also, it's a bummer to go to a festival where the Olivier Assayas film is subpar.

16. American Skin
15. Rare Beasts
14. Wasp Network
13. Martin Eden
12. Pelican Blood
11. The Laundromat
10. Giants Being Lonely
9. The King
8. 5 Is the Perfect Number
7. Rialto
6. An Officer and a Spy
5. The Perfect Candidate
4. The Kingmaker
3. Ad Astra
2. Joker
1. Marriage Story

Venice 2019: 'An Officer and a Spy' Review

A colleague joked that I've probably been cancelled since I gave the new Roman Polanski movie a good review. Oh well, I had a good run. (And, besides, I wasn't that glowing.) Many will come to An Officer and a Spy assuming that Polanski connects to the story of a man wrongly accused. But this true-life drama turns out to be more interesting than that reading. My review is up at Screen International.