Selected film criticism.

An exploration of grief, artistic creation, and the imaginative relationship between Shakespeare’s family life and the enduring power of Hamlet.

A meditation on friendship, silence, and the ways landscape and visual storytelling can reveal the emotional distance between people.

On representation, mountaineering, and a cinematic account that returns Tenzing Norgay to the center of a historic achievement.

A consideration of performance, ambition, visual style, and the unsettling possibilities of contemporary American satire.

An adventure that finds its emotional center in friendship, scientific wonder, and the humanity beneath its cosmic spectacle.

Body horror, identity, celebrity, and the tragic consequences of trying to reclaim an idealized version of oneself.

An extreme survival story whose visceral predicament becomes inseparable from memory, grief, and reconciliation.

A skeptical look at genre formulas, implausible narrative turns, and the challenge of finding originality in familiar terrain.

“All the blood, bullets and body count in the world can't resurrect a movie with no pulse.”