he was the boy every girl in school liked, but i liked him most. to be fair, it wasn’t much of a competition. i knew him best, because i was his best friend. but for awhile, i thought that’s all i’d ever be. because i’d had the misfortune of being a girl born in a boy’s body.

we met in eighth grade. he was the new kid, and i was his first friend. later, i liked to say that i…

Everything Everywhere All At Once is… unlike anything I have ever seen. At its core, all the absurdity aside, it’s a rich and rousing reminder of all that cinema can be and all it can do, making you believe in movie magic again as it tears your heart to pieces and puts it back together, in even better shape than before. A miracle of the medium, through and through.

I’m not gonna say the O-word, since we’re still (somehow) in LAST…

Woody Norman has one line at the end of C’mon C’mon that should secure him the Oscar in a just world, and it’s insane to me that we’re struggling to wrap up this Best ing Actor race when he’s RIGHT THERE.

The bias against children in acting races during awards season is so baffling to me. Just this year alone, he gave one of the best performances I’ve seen PERIOD, and he absolutely be taken seriously in these conversations.

(Also,…

C’mon C’mon is Mike Mills’ masterpiece. The relationship between Joaquin Phoenix and Woody Norman (what a find!) is so rousingly real and raw, and they give two of the most poignant performances of the year (while Gaby Hoffmann also delivers one of the best ing performances you’ll see this awards season). Mills’ script is a stunner, the score is sublime, and it’s all just utterly unforgettable.

Honestly… it’s an instant favorite of mine. There simply wasn’t a single frame of…