film criticism

A Queer Feminist Storytelling of ‘Jurassic Park’

A Queer Feminist Storytelling of ‘Jurassic Park’

Hannah McGregor’s book about Jurassic Park is a memoir, a love letter to monstrous femininities and queer kinships, and a pocket guide to reading like a feminist.

The Amplified Silence in Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

The Amplified Silence in Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

There are taboo subjects in the context of Indigenous Americans in Killers of the Flower Moon. Scorsese’s film only amplifies the silence surrounding them.

BFI London Film Festival 2023: Critics’ Chat

BFI London Film Festival 2023: Critics’ Chat

BFI London Film Festival’s most impressionable films of the year, industry strikes, awards season, and the shoe-leather journalism of a film festival critic.

Maggie Cheung’s Role in ‘Irma Vep’ Indulges French Film Cinepheliacs

Maggie Cheung’s Role in ‘Irma Vep’ Indulges French Film Cinepheliacs

In Irma Vep, Maggie Cheung becomes a representation of a now globalized cinema industry.

The Imagination of Disaster 2.0: Revisiting Susan Sontag in the Age of the Pandemic Horror Narrative

The Imagination of Disaster 2.0: Revisiting Susan Sontag in the Age of the Pandemic Horror Narrative

Considering Susan Sontag’s “The Imagination of Disaster” and modern apocalyptic narratives, are sci-fi and horror still “inadequate responses” to our world?

A Fresh Look at Free Will and Determinism in Terry Gilliam’s ’12 Monkeys’

A Fresh Look at Free Will and Determinism in Terry Gilliam’s ’12 Monkeys’

Susanne Kord gets to the heart of the philosophical issues in Terry Gilliam's 1995 time-travel dystopia, 12 Monkeys.

The Excrement of Capitalism: Todd Phillip’s ‘Joker’ as Commentary on Disposability

The Excrement of Capitalism: Todd Phillip’s ‘Joker’ as Commentary on Disposability

What happens when the disposable realize they are disposable?

Culture Is Not Innocent: An Interview with Fatima Bhutto

Culture Is Not Innocent: An Interview with Fatima Bhutto

Fatima Bhutto discusses her new book on pop culture from the Global South, which goes above and beyond, among other things, the "sluggish, bloated, less urgent" films dominating Hollywood.

In ‘Afterimages’ Laura Mulvey Returns to Feminist Film Criticism with Fresh Insights

In ‘Afterimages’ Laura Mulvey Returns to Feminist Film Criticism with Fresh Insights

Lauley Mulvey’s Afterimages draws together her recent writing on women and film to create an engaging collection that is both timely and time-centred.

In Defense of Errol Morris’s ‘Standard Operating Procedure’

In Defense of Errol Morris’s ‘Standard Operating Procedure’

Morris knows how our own projections have been weaponized against both those in the Abu Ghraib photos and ourselves as the public consuming the photos, obfuscating the standard operating procedure of the title.

What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘The Graduate’

What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘The Graduate’

The persuasive power of Seduced by Mrs. Robinson lies not in proffering a singular interpretation of its meaning but rather in the open-ended way it encourages readers to give in to the scope of the film's meaningfulness.

‘Ebert on Herzog’: A Love Story

‘Ebert on Herzog’: A Love Story

Nowhere else in the merging of modern cinema and film criticism can you find such a strangely symbiotic relationship.