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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Am digging the critical pile-on on "Digger," a folly I dug almost because of its excesses rather than in spite of them. Think Roy Andersson directing the Firesign Theatre. Makes "Dr. Strangelove" look like a corporate retreat. A movie everyone will love to hate and a few will hate to love. Review TK

Tom Cruise -- yes, Tom Cruise -- as a vile old man.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

New Watch List: "Primetime" (⭐ ⭐ 1/2) reviewed. "Is it worth sitting through an entertaining but morally questionable movie if it has three exceptional performances?" (Robert Pattinson, Merritt Wever and Skylar Gisondo, for those taking notes.) www.tyburrswatchlist.com/thoughts-and...

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Thoughts and Preyers: “Primetime” v “Predators”

The new Robert Pattinson drama has great performances and a queasy moral compass. Plus: New films on demand and a couple of classic recommendations.

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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Warrior Princess ⬇️

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Incoming persona shift alert

A movie poster for the new Alejandro Inarritu movie "Digger" featuring an old, weird-looking dude holding a shovel who on closer examination turns out to be Tom Cruise. The dude, not the shovel.

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Capn Borscht @capnborscht.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

The best thing about this planet is that every few days I'll learn about an animal I've literally never seen or heard of before, like the Nilgai which is just a stupidly massive antelope

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Patio Yeller @patioyeller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

-chanting- BIRD SURGE BIRD SURGE BIRD SURGE

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Poem I forgot I wrote a while back.

Koan Curriculum

The aisles of this supermarket are stacked with
10,000 things that make no sense.
Hair dye for the heart.
A scrub brush for music.
Spices to sprinkle over street corners
and small children.
A toilet plunger made of stone.
I read the label for each
before I go on to the next
and the cashier is so very far away,
my cart so full.
The express lane is closed,
says the stock boy, kneeling,
but you don’t have to worry.
Your money’s no good here.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Grown child suddenly realizes who their real parent has been all along.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I agree with @jvl.bsky.social. Dems would do well to conduct serial impeachments. First Heggy (if he is not convicted in Dec, after he IS impeached in House), then RFK. Then prioritize based on what will either gain support among Senate GOPers OR embarrass them. www.thebulwark.com/p/impeach-th...

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Impeach Them. All of Them.

Hegseth is only the beginning.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BREAKING: The Banana Splits will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Buncha TIFF reviews. "[As the young Stallone,] Ippolito recovers the human under the layers of waxy pop-culture build-up and reminds you why everyone fell for the guy in the first place." (posts are public)

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TIFF Report II: "I Play Rocky,""Ink,” "Up Against It," "The Long Winter"

An underdog story about an underdog story is an unexpected highlight at the Toronto Film Festival

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

andrew what do you think about trans kids playing high school sports? “i actually dont think about childrens genitals, what a bizarre question”

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Some wonderful and helpful suggestions for warding off AI doomerism in the responses here.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Choosing a 3 hr 15 min movie for my first TIFF screening would normally be a risky move, but it's Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and it's glorious. ALL OF A SUDDEN: A film of friendship, kindness, language and ideas with a big honking TED talk in the middle that explains everything. Subtle notes of Rivette, too.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Back in Toronto for, what, my 25th year at the Film Festival? Looking forward to seeing old friends and new movies. Here's a tip sheet.

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Eight Movies I want to See at TIFF 2026

It's fall festival time, and the Watch List is headed to Toronto to try and make sense of it all.

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube

Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Reposting this with paywall removed coz everyone who sees this movie needs to think/talk/read about it, like, right away and I too have thoughts. www.tyburrswatchlist.com/what-to-watc...

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What to Watch: "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma"

Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder go on a voyage of personal discovery in Jane Schoenbrun's new movie, and it's a hell of a ride.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Okay, now I want to see the whole jury and try to guess which one’s Henry Fonda, which one’s Lee J. Cobb, which one’s Jack Klugman…

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I finally got around to seeing "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma." Hoo boy -- good stuff. "Few putative horror films, even the faux ones, send you out as happy as this one does." www.tyburrswatchlist.com/what-to-watc...

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What to Watch: "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma"

Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder go on a voyage of personal discovery in Jane Schoenbrun's new movie, and it's a hell of a ride.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Somewhere down in the bones of 'Coyote vs Acme' is a version by Samuel Beckett, with Vladimir and Estragon redrawn as two-dimensional soulmates who can’t go on but must go on, forever and ever, beep beep." Full review in the latest Watch List.

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In Review: "Coyote vs Acme," "The Dog Stars," "Peter Asher"

Plus a few words on two icons we've lost this week.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thinking about all the transphobe MFers who got their freak on dancing to "Time Warp" at midnight screenings in high school and who would burn Frank-N-Furter alive if he showed up today. 🤬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4OG...

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Don't Dream It Be It

YouTube video by toon59

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Some stars are sui generis, literally inimitable. They create their own space in the culture, their own genre of human. And when they're gone, no one fills their shoes. There's no "next" Fred Astaire or Mae West or Audrey Hepburn. There will be no "next" Dolly Parton. Even the idea is absurd.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Jesse Watters truly is the Dunning-Kruger Effect in human form.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I don’t normally platform this guy, but, Jesus, he is not wrong.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Lucky me, I got to review the A.R.T.'s "Rhinoceros" for @bostonglobe.com. Turturro is great, but what Giamatti does with the Act II transformation scene will go down in theater legend. A scaldingly funny and then just scalding staging that couldn't be more relevant to life in the age of MAGA. Yowza.

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John Turturro, Paul Giamatti, Tatiana Maslany shine in A.R.T.’s bone-chillingly prescient ‘Rhinoceros’ - The Boston Globe

By turns funny and horrifying, the A.R.T.'s production of the classic Eugene Ionesco play coheres into a devastating organic whole.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Shout it far and wide and maybe he’ll even hear it.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I am very much enjoying the cultural metaphors being attached to Natalie Harp’s forehead like neon post-its. — lady Renfield — It’s All For You Damien nurse — Bunny boiler Keep it up folks.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I had some thoughts on the new Mary Oliver documentary, poets who dare to be popular and other matters. You do not have to be good, but this movie should have been better. (Thanks to Maya C. Popa for some insights that helped with this.)

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Poetic Injustice: The "Mary Oliver"documentary

A new film by Sasha Waters is a celebratory portrait of the beloved poet, but there's a tougher Mary Oliver somewhere behind the stanzas.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Happy to finally accept this man into the Brotherhood of Tys

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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

When you come home smelling like another dog . 😍

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Farm fresh ratatouille, good goddamn

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

All my friends who said “Don’t pray for a coup, it’d be worse,” sorry, fuck you, I’m praying for a coup.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Punk meets the Godfather.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Despite what you may have heard, Liv Ullmann is very much alive and living mostly in Gloucester, MA, where she's married to the father of one of my grammar school classmates. (No, I am not making that up.) Good excuse to watch "Persona," "Shame" or "The Passion of Anna" again, though!

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I stand by my belief that if his orders had been to destroy America as a world power of any consequence, this is pretty much what he would have done.

The munitions shortage opens a strategic door for international adversaries like China, North Korea, and Russia.
“It’s impossible for that not to have a significant effect on the decision calculus of Russia and China. They may do something quite deliberate and at the time of their choosing, because keep in mind — we’re going to take years to reconstitute,” Tom Karako, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told The New York Times.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Post the best picture you’ve ever taken of your pet.

A large cream-colored shaggy dog reclining on a hillside with a house in the distance. A.KA. “Bodhi’s World”

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The so-called president of the United States is a massive money launderer and cut off by the bank that discovered it. Yet the story barely registers with the legacy media. What a disgrace.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Dr. John's 1968 album "Gris-Gris" is a spellbinding work of musicological anthropology that connects Mother Africa, New Orleans' Congo Square and American rock and R&B, and David Toop's new book follows every last tributary to its source. Review in today's Watch List.

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On Rock 'n' Roll Ghosts and Other Matters

David Toop's "Two-Headed Doctor" is a spellbinding genealogy of American music tied to one of the strangest, deepest records of the 1960s. Plus a few movie things.

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

7/27/78: Animal House! Legendary ensemble cast of youngsters incl many future greats, but note also Donald Sutherland, Verna Bloom & Richard Vernon More @tyburr.bsky.social - eyewitness to the inspiration: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen... @maxevry.bsky.social: www.denofgeek.com/movies/how-d...

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How Donald Sutherland Made Animal House Possible and Lost Millions in the Process | Den of Geek

Donald Sutherland was one of the most versatile actors of his generation who starred in many classics. Yet one of his big regrets was making Animal House happen and losing tens of millions for his eff...

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

New in the Watch List: Ross McElwee's aching documentary "Remake" (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐) is a career summation and refutation that wonders what good a camera is if it can save the moments of your life but can’t save the people in it. One of the year's wisest, saddest and best.

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What to Watch: "Remake," "Tuner"

A nifty little thriller on demand and, in theaters, an aching confession of complicity and regret from one of our finest documentarians.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Am I the only one getting Uncanny Valley vibes from this guy?

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