review: monos

Although director Alejandro Landes’s script keeps context to an evocative minimum, the shadow of Colombia’s tentatively concluded civil conflict is unmistakable

the film comment podcast: toronto 2019 #1

I appeared on The Film Comment Podcast’s first Toronto 2019 dispatch to discuss Knives Out, The Lost Okoroshi, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and more

the film comment podcast: venice 2019 preview

I appeared on The Film Comment Podcast to preview lineup of the 2019 Venice Film Festival, featuring The Perfect Candidate, About Endlessness, Waiting for the Barbarians, etc.

interview: nanfu wang and jialing zhang

Family matters: the directors of One Child Nation on the psychological workings and vestiges of the decades-long Chinese policy

open city docs 2019: caballerango

On intimacy, intuition, and “speaking nearby” in Juan Pablo González’s Caballerango and other films.

the film comment podcast: 21st century debuts

As part of an event at Film at Lincoln Center, I joined a panel of critics and programmers to discuss the best film debuts of the 21st century.

the film comment podcast: new releases #2

I appeared on the second edition of Film Comment’s New Releases podcast to discuss Lulu Wang’s The Farewell, Benjamín Naishtat’s Rojo, Richard Billingham’s Ray & Liz, and other films.

beyond the canon: touki bouki + breathless

An essay on Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki and Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless for the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s “Beyond the Canon” series.

the film comment podcast: new releases #1

I appeared on the first edition of Film Comment’s New Releases podcast to discuss Ari Aster’s Midsommar, Peter Parlow’s The Plagiarists, and Eva Trobisch’s All Good.

write what you know

Cheerfully on point, workplace comedy Late Night plays out complex issues with the easy candor of its star, Mindy Kaling