Movie Enthusiast Issue 48: Post-Oscars; Annihilation
Good morning, dear readers! I take it we all survived the Oscars? Kobe Bryant now has more competitive Oscars than Alfred Hitchcock, but Roger Deakins...
Movie Enthusiast Issue 47: Thoughts on Black Panther
This weekend I saw Black Panther! It was nice! Faithful readers of this newsletter know what that means—yes, this was Tim’s first Marvel movie! Thus I have a...
Movie Enthusiast Issue 46: Sundance 2018 in Review
Another year, another Sundance! The annual festival of independent narrative and documentary films took place this year from January 18 to January 28, as it...
Movie Enthusiast Issue 45: If I were an Oscar voter (my 2017 ballot)
The nominees for the 90th Academy Awards will be announced tomorrow! If I were an Oscar voter, which I’m not, and if the Oscars allowed all voters to elect...
Movie Enthusiast Issue 44: Phantom Thread, Graduation, and the Second Annual Box Office Olympics
Two new movie reviews from me this week, which is basically a rare astronomical event: First, I reviewed Phantom Thread, which is finally opening everywhere...
Movie Enthusiast Special Issue: The Best Films of 2017
Happy New Year everyone! Dropping into your inboxes this morning to announce that I’ve finally finished compiling (and copyediting—good grief am I prone to...
Movie Enthusiast Issue 43: 18 to Watch in 2018
2017 is almost over; good riddance! Let’s wrap up the year by looking forward to some movies set to open in 2018. I’m omitting movies that already have full...
Movie Enthusiast Issue 42: Three Notes on Claire Denis; Lady Bird Thoughts; Video Essay News
Cinephiles tend to have strong emotions about Claire Denis, the septuagenarian French director usually known if at all for her 1999 exercise-video-as-...
Movie Enthusiast Issue 41: I’m a Film Critic Who’s Never Seen a Marvel Movie
In May 2012 Marvel’s The Avengers arrived in theaters, right at the end of my first year of college. A friend had invited me to go see it during our reading...
Movie Enthusiast Issue 40
Welcome back! I took a short break to wait until I could send a robust newsletter rather than keep to schedule and have nothing to write about. Boy did I...
Movie Enthusiast Issue 39: Afghanistan’s Lost Films, Revisiting My Top 100, Don’t Tell Me About mother!
I am planning on seeing Darren Aronofsky’s mother! this week. Somehow, I have managed to avoid all trailers and plot descriptions of this movie. All I know...
Movie Enthusiast Issue 38: Books vs. Movies vs. Theater; Twin Peaks
I’ve been reading some André Bazin, the French intellectual who was among the founding editors of Cahiers du cinéma and whose writings on film are...
Movie Enthusiast Issue 37: The Festivals Are Coming, the Festivals Are Coming!
Brace yourselves—the fall film festival circuit is revving its engines! The big ones to be aware of this year: Venice International Film Festival (8/30–9/9)...
Movie Enthusiast Issue 36: Streaming vs. Theatrical, Death to Superheroes, and Upcoming Projects
Welcome back to Movie Enthusiast, after a short and unplanned July 4th hiatus! Summer is a bit slower on the film-world happenings, so this week will be more...
Movie Enthusiast Issue 35: Faith on Film (Again)
Without planning it I’ve recently seen a couple of movies where faith is a central element of the story. I’ll start with the most recent, since it’s fresh on...
Movie Enthusiast Issue 34: Cannes 2017 in Review
Coming to you a week ahead of schedule, it’s Tim’s comprehensive overview of this year’s Cannes Film Festival! Please excuse any details I may have gotten...
Movie Enthusiast Issue 33: Thoughts I have had while standing next to Alex Ross Perry in line to use the bathroom at a film festival
Two weekends ago I took the train up to Baltimore for the Maryland Film Festival! This was both my first medium-scale film festival (Film Fest DC is such a...
Movie Enthusiast Issue 32: TV Killed the Movie Star
Is it just me or are all the exciting movie directors going to TV now? To wit, we’re currently expecting miniseries from: Barry Jenkins – will adapt Colson...
Movie Enthusiast Issue 31: Who’s going to Cannes next month?
In my last newsletter I forgot to mention that I was planning on taking a short break through the month of April due to travel and holidays. Whoops! To atone...
Movie Enthusiast Issue 30: A good horror movie audience is hard to find, Japanese antiwar movies, and more
Earlier this month I saw Get Out, Jordan Peele’s fantastic horror-comedy (emphasis on the horror) about a black guy who goes to meet his white girlfriend’s...