From the early aughts through the early-to-mid teens, I was a film critic and reporter for Philadelphia Weekly. I then became the film (and, for a time, tech) editor for Metro US, where I was mostly the section’s only writer, much of it criticism. My film writing has also been featured in Vulture, The Village Voice, The Guardian, Filmmaker Magazine, Polygon, Nashville Scene, The AV Club, and NBC. Below are some samples (from Metro US, unless otherwise noted):

First-run:

Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias’ Cocote (Village Voice)

João Dumans and Affonso Uchoa’s Araby (Village Voice)

Don Argott’s Believer (Village Voice)

My last review for Metro US, which was about the disastrous Stephen King adaptation The Dark Tower

Had a pretty strong reaction to Avengers: Age of Ultron

Martin Scorsese’s Silence

I’m one of three people who admire Rules Don’t Apply

Frederick Wiseman’s In Jackson Heights

Ira Sachs’ Little Men

A defense (mostly) of Cameron Crowe’s unfairly lambasted Aloha

Gaspar Noé’s Love

Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson’s The Forbidden Room

A pan of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

A pan of Dolphin Tale 2

Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis

Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers

Reissues/restorations:

The once-lost George A. Romero film The Amusement Park (Consequence)

Krzysztof Kiéslowski’s The Dekalog

Susan Seidelman’s Smithereens

Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala’s Howards End

John Waters’ Multiple Maniacs

Joel and Ethan Coen’s Blood Simple

Ousmane Sembene’s Black Girl

Eiichi Yamamoto’s Belladonna of Sadness

Noel Marshall’s lions-and-tiger-heavy 1981 curio Roar

Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fou

Jacques Rivette’s Out 1