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I've seen the movie. It's generally excellent. But knowing the extent of its use of AI greatly diminishes it. That's how I feel about it.

This is profoundly disappointing. I thought this was a terrific movie and didn't need the stench of AI attached to it

I need "Clarissa Explains It All" to explain "Clarissa" to me. That makes me disappointed, sad.

"Coward" review from #NewFest: A beautiful exploration of cowardice and courage for queer lovers at war

"Coward" review from #NewFest: A beautiful exploration of cowardice and courage for queer lovers at war

The circumstances are awful, but it's a small relief to watch the GOP finally confess to everything they've accused the rest of us of. Rape, pedophilia, voter fraud, corruption, everything. They are the party of harm in every conceivable way

"Out of the Woods" is playing at #NewFest and I admired it greatly. A delicate and melancholy film. #newfest38 #film #filmsky

Dear Democrats, Spamming your constituents with fundraising emails during a cost of living crisis is not a winning move FFS.

Writing this was an interesting experience, a journey through my insecurities in trying to comprehend a movie that I. Did. Not. Get. At. All. That's either a filmmaking issue or a me issue, or both. #newfest #newfest38

Writing this was an interesting experience, a journey through my insecurities in trying to comprehend a movie that I. Did. Not. Get. At. All. That's either a filmmaking issue or a me issue, or both. #newfest #newfest38

seems like "on the orders of a nazi every major news outlet on the planet hounded an innocent man to death because he's black" should be one of the biggest stories of the year

I've avoided everything I can about You Can See Everything, but I can already feel it reaching overhype levels for when I finally see it. There's always a chance the film is equal to the hype, but high expectations never help

It will never cease to infuriate me that a generation of boomers who won't live long enough to suffer the worst of climate collapse did absolutely nothing to spare their children and grandchildren.

Elon Musk boosted the lie that James Talarico stayed at a mental hospital. Meta suspended No Kings’ Instagram account during nationwide actions. Staff at the Ellison-owned CBS News were reportedly told to tie Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood and 9/11. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

It looks like the diversity pendulum will swing back towards whiteness this awards season

The "Mass Effect" trilogy isn't just great video games, it's one of my favorite sci-fi stories from any medium. Deep lore and creativity, exciting, moving.

I noticed this! How does this ad somehow not realize that its hero is the villain?

One degenerate Nazi should not have the power to undermine an entire nation's effort to defend its territory. Billionaires are a threat to continued human existence, period.

Gurl, same

I hope this low-budget indie generates positive attention for its great Frances Fisher performance #newfest #newfest38

"Sinner Supper Club" at #NewFest is a weird one that didn't work for me, but I respect the effort

My first review out of #NewFest is a breezy romantic dramedy I had a soft spot for despite some rough edges.

Frances Fisher is sublime in this #newfest #newfest38

What is underappreciated in this is that it's not that hard to keep someone alive in custody. The hierarchy of human needs is well known. Food, water, shelter, medicine. In 2026, failing this standard is murder.

Frances Fisher is sublime in this #newfest #newfest38

My first review out of #NewFest is a breezy romantic dramedy I had a soft spot for despite some rough edges.

Even by the currently embarrassing standards of CBS News, this, from the network's chief legal correspondent, is astonishing. Naked right-wing partisanship, Islamophobic racism, blunt-force stupidity, and inability to read the room even when the actual room is right before her eyes. MAGA grand slam!

Corporations are why we can't have nice things, part 3,496,012:

The more I think of this film, the more I'm frustrated by its straw-manning of left ideologies. Whatever its intent, looking at modern civilization and proposing that maybe woke has gone too far totally misses the moment. It could have been a more balanced film.

Anyway I'm not giving up my em-dashes. Fuck off.

This is all disgusting. I've had people accuse me of using AI when I do shit like use an em-dash. I struggle to avoid yelling but HUNDREDS OF ARTICLES AND AT LEAST TWO BOOKS I WROTE have been scraped by OpenAI. I'm part of why your chatbots write the way they do. They're copying me.

“We’re not going back” should include Democrats imo.

I wrote about some of my favorite achievements from #NYFF64

Another reason Ava DuVernay is one of my favorite directors

It doesn't take a business expert to understand that the #Skydance merger is profoundly dangerous power grab

Ending the 2026 New York Film Festival on a high note! #nyff #nyff64

I'm not a business reporter, but I wanted to address something that matters to me: the awful no good very bad merger

I'm not a business reporter, but I wanted to address something that matters to me: the awful no good very bad merger

Ending the 2026 New York Film Festival on a high note! #nyff #nyff64

Saw Ava DuVernay's "14th" this morning at #NYFF. Some pictures from the press conference. Review will publish tonight when the embargo lifts.

When people try to pretend slavery has been over for soooo long, I'm going to remind them that it was less than one tortoise ago.

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these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.

Check out my glowing review of the #NYFF world premiere #AStatement by Tom McCarthy

#Behemoth: I struggled with the nonlinear structure at first; it bobs and weaves through about 15 years of time. But eventually I settled into it, carried along the rhythms of its protagonist's life. #nyff #nyff64