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15 Great Movies on Netflix You Probably Haven’t Seen

You’re stuck at home, COVID-19 lurking somewhere in a neighbor’s house. Yes, you could watch that movie you love ever so much, or ignore the 112 films that have been on your My List for years, or… you could watch a movie you maybe heard of at one point but never bothered to see. Here’s […]

The Jack Ryan Franchise, Ranked

The Jack Ryan franchise has a lot to offer, but which ones are best?

Move Over Oscars… Here are the 20 Best Performances of 2019

Academy voters only sometimes get it right. Here are the best acting performances of the year.

The 36 Best Movies of the Decade

I wasn’t going to do a Best of the Decade piece… but then I changed my mind. Unlike many of my fellow movie critics, however, I didn’t spend all year preparing for this moment, watching the hundreds of great movies that have been released over the last 10 years. That… sounded like a lot of […]

The Best Movies of 2019

2019 was a great year for movies, but there can only be 10.

The Irishman, Parasite Lead Seattle Film Critic Award Nominees

The nominees for the 2019 Seattle Film Critic Awards have been announced.

‘Gremlins’ 4K Release Reminds Us of the Most Depressing Christmas Story Ever

Phoebe Cates shares the worst Christmas story ever.

Remembering Camp Chippewa from ‘The Addams Family Values’

Paramount has re-released the two original Addams Family movies on Blu-ray, so it's time to revisit perfection.

The Old ‘Aladdin’ Makes the New Aladdin Look Like Crap

The new, live-action Aladdin recently flew onto home video, and with it came a re-release of the animated classic, a stark reminder of just how much better the cartoon is in every way and form—and why Disney’s live-action strategy is driven by a cold, heartless, and hollow pursuit of cash, nothing more. Revisiting 1992’s Aladdin—my […]

An Interview with Riley Stearns and Why Jesse Eisenberg Did His Movie Out of Pity

I met with filmmaker Riley Stearns when he was in town for the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) and had a fantastic conversation—well, at least I think so, he may have told the agency reps he never wants to see my face again—about his new movie The Art of Self-Defense (in theaters now), a darkly […]

The Best Animal Horror Movies of All Time

Alexander Aja’s alligator/hurricane thriller Crawl seeks to take a bite out of theaters this weekend, so it seemed like a perfect time to look back at some of the best animal-centric horror movies ever made. The list proved to be slightly tricky, as intentionally awful (?) fare such as Anaconda and Snakes on a Plane […]

Batman on 4K: Burton’s Shine, Schumacher’s Show Rust

Warner Bros. has released the first four Batman movies on 4K for the first time (a 4-Film Collection arrives on September 17, 2019), which gave me a long overdue opportunity to revisit the highs and the lows of the late 80s/early 90s series that largely served as the only major comic book franchise in cinemas […]