Once they’re gone you just think about what you’d do if they weren’t. I miss you, Dad, every day, and time has not made anything easier so much as clarified the absence. It’s all hard. There are no…

Indie Rising is the best part of PAX, and as is tradition, we continue our annual wrap-up of the games featured. As always, this section of the expo hall is bursting with innovation, and is, more o…

HIGH ART  (Lisa Cholodenko, USA, 1998, 101 minutes)  Every time I see your face  It reminds me of the places we used to go  But all I've got...

Naïveté stirs itself into hyper-optimism in Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day. Spielberg — a talented filmmaker who could be the next M. Night Shyamalan — returns to blockbuster filmmaking with a h…

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If 2025 was a mixed year for the videogame industry, it was still a banner year for videogame releases. We’ve collected the best of the best for our end-of-year consideration. Let’s go banana…

Danny Boyle did the funniest thing. 28 Years Later ended with an absurdist punk ethos. The dramatic tonal shift quickly diverts from the dark coming of age story that proceeded it. Knowing Nia DaCo…

In the Year of Our Lord (Paul Thomas Anderson), 2025, there was a seismic shift in the culture of movies. What has worked for a couple decades no longer works. Mammoth hero movies are no longer the…

Another piece I wrote for Reel News, SIFF's now-defunct publication for members, in 2002 (it was never online, because that was a different ...

Seattle, WA – The Seattle Film Critics Society (SFCS) has announced nominations for the 2025 SFCS Awards, honoring the year’s best in film. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners ties the all-time record…

The legendary director talks with Harper's Bazaar about becoming an artist and a parent

There are films you watch, and then there are films that surround you. Films that breathe, whisper, and carry you someplace both familiar and lost. Clint Bentle

Yorgos Lanthimos is working at the forefront of present cinematic expression. The work of the Greek auteur will not leave you indifferent. That art provokes response is so central to its value in t…

The visual font of addiction is so often relegated to drugs and alcohol, but addiction is a spiritual malady, and its expression is equally valid in all forms of spiritual disintegration. Addiction…

He is few critics’ idea of a respectable auteur, but his work is more consistently progressive than any other comic-book material today.

With the Mariners battling the Toronto Blue Jays in the ALCS, we spoke to the directors of the team's unofficial documentary about why the M's are special.