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Calvin Kemph @calvinkemph.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Four hours with Elon Musk is more time than anyone should want to spend, but Alex Gibney’s latest is exhaustive and you probably already agree with it. MUSK uses the tools of the oppressor, perhaps because it already believes the end is here, and it’s too late. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

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MUSK: World’s Always Burning

MUSK is too much time with Elon Musk. Four hours of your life is a hard bargain. You already agree, probably, as Musk is not some mysterious figure. There’s a whole social network where you can hea…

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Calvin Kemph @calvinkemph.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Blessings to anyone sending anything but horror movies for consideration in this season of the devil. We may not watch your movies but you are sweet.

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Josh @josh-c.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING. Could not imagine wanting to hear another second about Elizabeth Holmes, but as incredulous audience surrogate Nathan Fielder proved me dead wrong for 174 consecutive minutes. His electrifying new documentary with Lance Oppenheim knocked the wind out of me like nothing else.

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Calvin Kemph @calvinkemph.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Our group is so much better off with your inclusion, welcome aboard!

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Li Lai • Mediaversity Reviews @mediaversityreviews.com · 26/08/2026

What great news to wake up to! Excited to join @seattlecritics.bsky.social—my first ever critics society 😀 Thank you @eclectichutch.bsky.social @calvinkemph.bsky.social and all for the invite, and for the warm PNW (oxymoron??) welcome since I moved out here a few years ago.

SFCS Seattle Film Critics Society website screenshot showing "Welcome New Members" Caleb Masters, Li Lai, and Matt Erspamer

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Calvin Kemph @calvinkemph.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I just wonder what the 60-foot Cylopse is up to? Where’s he at? Did they keep him? Like one of those Home Depot skeletons, I hope he is sitting in someone’s yard now.

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I wrote about Lisa Cholodenko's High Art, out now on @criterion.bsky.social. In her directorial debut, she evokes an era while tackling timeless concerns. I only wish Radha Mitchell and Ally Sheedy had more similarly substantial roles afterward--though it's not too late. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

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All I've Got Is a Photograph: Looking Back at Lisa Cholodenko's 1998 Debut <i>High Art</i>

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...

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Calvin Kemph @calvinkemph.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

In every timeline, I’m still thinking about Rose of Nevada

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Calvin Kemph @calvinkemph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Disclosure Day serves as a preamble to a better Spielberg movie we already have, more aligned with the science fiction of the past than it is invested in the present or the future. The result is an antiquated hopefulness and faith in collective thought. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

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Disclosure Day: Today is Disclosure Day

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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Calvin Kemph @calvinkemph.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Of all the recent years of movies, this one is feeling real unhinged. letterboxd.com/calvinkemph/...

List of the year’s best movies as I see it — I Love Boosters, Nirvanna the band the show the movie, Union County, The Bone Temple, Project Hail Mary, Hokum, Pillion, American Doctor, Eight Vridges, Edie Arnold is a Loser, etc etc

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Calvin Kemph @calvinkemph.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

It seems like, from what I’ve heard, it’s somehow worse now having adapted to what people want from it?

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Calvin Kemph @calvinkemph.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Inconclusive feedback for you haha but it’s so interesting to me that Van Sant insists so wholly on making a small crime movie and doesn’t pull any punches, the stubborn refusal to make it bigger and more accessible is endearing, even though it’s simply a slighter version of Dog Day

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 16/03/2026

The Oscars had a whole speech about how documentary directors are often at odds with their government and at risk of being murdered for their films. But Best International Films are still submitted by their governments, and the award goes to the country.

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Calvin Kemph @calvinkemph.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Folks on the internet care a lot about whether other people on the internet are fun at parties.

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Calvin Kemph @calvinkemph.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Hope he gets a nice new office in the Christmas Adventurers Club

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Calvin Kemph @calvinkemph.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The more annoying and hyper specific, the higher we’ll rate it tbh

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Calvin Kemph @calvinkemph.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

It has doc elements but is such a hybrid of things, fair take. I just love it so much and wanted to say so. One of the best of the year

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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

no idea

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Seemed as good a time as any time to revive a 2002 @siffnews.bsky.social piece I wrote about Douglas Sirk, melodrama (as something other than a pejorative), and the critics, filmmakers, and critic/filmmakers who saw the value in his work and took inspiration from it. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

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Douglas Sirk: In Praise of Melodrama

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 ...

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Calvin Kemph @calvinkemph.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

@seattlecritics.bsky.social noms are out! Come for Train Dreams, Sinners, One Battle After Another in BP, stay for Pacific Northwest awards, the best of PNW shorts, Eephus in ensemble, The Ugly Stepsister in International, and Bring Her Back in Best Villain. Proud of our group and picks as always.

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Seattle Film Critics Society: 2025 Awards Nominations

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…

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Calvin Kemph @calvinkemph.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Happy to accept FIFA prize for being the best at watching movies. Thank you for your attn.

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Calvin Kemph @calvinkemph.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Very unserious that Netflix owns so much cinema history. Good that they’re expanding beyond their business of sending movies in envelopes by mail finally.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday.
The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal.
"My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.

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Calvin Kemph @calvinkemph.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Always this. Write like you’re curious, not like you know everything already.

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Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️ @eclectichutch.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

For @seattletimes.com, spoke with Lily Gladstone about lending her voice to the documentary BRING THEM HOME (which premieres Nov. 24 on PBS), recording her narration at her regular Seattle studio, and how history echoes with her upcoming film THE MEMORY POLICE 📽️ www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

Lily Gladstone poses for photographers at the BFI Flare Opening Gala for the film “The Wedding Banquet” on March. 19 in London. Her latest project, the documentary “Bring Them Home,” premieres Nov. 24 on PBS. (Scott A Garfitt / Invision / The Associated Press)

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Noel Mummy 🤕 @noelmu.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Thanks to what the kids say today, some of the dialogue in High Sierra “hits different” (as the kids say today).

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Mira Jacob @mirajacob.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I interviewed ferociously brilliant filmmaker Mira Nair, a.k.a Zohran Mamdani’s mother, about how her voice and vision have shaped a man who sees a better way forward for all of us. SPOILER ALERT: Love matters. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

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How Mira Nair Built the World That Made Zohran Mamdani

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

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Sara Clements @saraclements.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Capturing the beauty of TRAIN DREAMS in words was a challenge that took a few days to even draft out. There are films that surround you, breathe, whisper, & carry you someplace both familiar & lost. TRAIN DREAMS is one of those films. It’s breathtaking. #FilmSky www.peliplat.com/en/article/1...

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'Train Dreams' Review: A Meditative Journey Through Love, Loss, and the Eternal Pulse of the Earth | Peliplat

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

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Screenings of @seattlecritics.bsky.social' PNW nominees continue! Shorts w/filmmakers at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social Nov 19 and features w/filmmakers at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center Nov 21-23: Twinless, Wolf Land, To Kill a Wolf, WTO/99, Not One Drop of Blood. We launched with Train Dreams Oct 29.

Handbills with QR codes and images from each film on a wooden desk.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.

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Calvin Kemph @calvinkemph.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We don’t have to pretend Dems have real strategy and this has been a thoughtful, productive exercise.

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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

For Arc Raiders to ride the wave of human sociability all the way to the bank, while also being so contemptuous of the thing that makes us social animals in its own workflow demonstrates a lack of artistic integrity that I find impossible to ignore. Our review: bit.ly/49bVn01

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Watching Our of the Past. So much beauty, in the actors' faces & bodies as well as in the photography & staging (as in a fistfight that plays out partly in the shadows combatants cast on a wall). Very adult in its understanding of attraction and how one choice can trap you for life.

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