2012 in Review: The Year's Best Movies

Well, another year is in the books. Like everyone else has said, 2012 was a pretty great movie year. Coming up with a Top 10 was relatively ...

2012 in Review: The Year's Worst Movies

You don't see more than 300 movies in a year without having to sit through some real duds. So, for Deadspin , Will and I each picked our...

2012 in Review: The Small Gems You May Have Missed

2012 simply had too many great movies. (My Top 10 ballot had to be narrowed down from a pretty excellent list of 13 contenders.) For IFC Fix...

What's Steven Spielberg's Best Film?

That's the question that Will Leitch and I pondered for Vulture . We put our heads together and ranked the filmmaker's 28 features. ...

My Top 20 Albums of the Last 40 Years

My beloved KEXP is celebrating its 40th anniversary by asking its listeners to pick their Top 20 albums of the last 40 years . In other wor...

'The American' and Other Good Labor Day Releases

For Deadspin , I decided to try and find some good movies that opened over Labor Day weekend, which tends to be a black hole in the annual f...

Let's Rank Spike Lee's Films

Spike Lee fan that I am, I was thrilled and honored to be asked by Vulture to rank his movies from worst to best. Will Leitch and I put our...

Breaking Down the Sight & Sound Poll

This week was the official unveiling of the latest Sight & Sound poll results. (My predictions, at least for the critics, were pretty a...

Sight & Sound Poll Predictions

Sight & Sound is about to reveal the critics' and directors' lists for the magazine's once-a-decade Greatest Films poll. So...

Getting Ready for Toronto

We're a little more than a month away from the Toronto Film Festival. I'll be there for Screen International , but today I wanted to...

The Top Six Films of 2012 (so far)

We're a little more than halfway through the year, so Will and I decided to list our individual picks for 2012's best films to this ...

Woody Allen Sure Loves His Prostitute Characters

Being a fan of Woody Allen requires a willingness to defend him on lots of different grounds. (There's the Soon-Yi business, the fact th...

Andy Samberg's Future in Film

Andy Samberg is a mystery to me. I liked him fine on Saturday Night Live , and I really enjoyed (most of) his Digital Shorts. And the first ...

Sight & Sound: What 1990s Films Will Stand the Test of Time?

Since I was a kid, I've been in awe of Sight & Sound 's once-a-decade greatest films poll . It's the king of all best-film l...

2012 Has Had Some Great Films So Far

We are now four months into the film year. Yes, you had to suffer through some dreck ( Dark Tide , Beneath the Darkness , This Means War ), ...

The Summer Movies I Can't Wait to See -- and the Ones I Can

For Deadspin , my partner-in-crime Will Leitch and I both listed the 10 movies we're most excited about this summer. If that wasn't...

Russell Crowe, Robert Downey Jr., and Other Serious Actors Who Became Action Stars

For Gawker , I decided to put together a list of five memorable "serious" actors who took the plunge and became action heroes. It...

The Future Ain't What It Used to Be, 'Hunger Games' Edition

For Deadspin , I did a fun little piece in which I looked at how The Hunger Games depicts our bleak future and then compared it to other way...

My Best Picture Ballot for the 2012 Academy Awards

You know the drill : It's almost time for the Oscars, so here's how I would vote for Best Picture if I was a member of the Academy.....

Sundance 2012: Ranking the Best and Worst of the Festival

And so we come to the end of another Sundance film festival. All in all, I saw 32 films, including a couple I checked out at Toronto last ye...