Film and Art Criticism

Select Reviews

  1. An interview on Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths and Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door for Philosophy Talk
  2. An interview on Alice Diop’s Saint Omer and Todd Haynes’ May December for Philosophy Talk.
  3. “Identifications and their Refusal: On Alice’ Diop’s Saint Omer.” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 2023.
  4. “What It Means to Watch.” Boston Review, January 2022.
  5. “It’s Over: on Amy Seimetz’s She Dies Tomorrow.” LARB Blog, 2020
  6. Some short reviews at Aesthetics for Birds
  7. “Film Comes to Mind.” On the significance of film in the first week of COVID-19 in North America.  Los Angeles Review of Books Philosophical Salon. March 2020.
  8. My Top 5 of the Decade
  9. “Last Man: On Claire Denis’s High Life.” Los Angeles Review of Books, December 2018.
  10. “Exercises in Self-Destruction in First Reformed.” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 2018.
  11. “Haneke and the Technology of Intimacy.” Boston Review, April 2018.
  12. “The Spirit of Things: On Personal Shopper.” Los Angeles Review of Books, April 2017.
  13. “Unspeakable Appetites: On Cannibals in Film.” Lenny, March 2017.
  14. “Roh, nicht medium.” “Unspeakable Appetites” in German. Der Freitag, March 2017.
  15. “An Education: On Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight.” Los Angeles Review of Books, November, 2016.
  16. “Bourne Again: Jason Bourne and the Politics of Self-Knowledge.” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 2016
  17. “Precarious Paintings, Precarious Lives: On Kerry James Marshall’s Mastry.” Los Angeles Review of Books, June 2016.
  18. “Images to Work With: On the Ethics of Representation in Son of Saul.”
    Los Angeles Review of Books, February 2016.
  19. “On Kubrick’s Paths of Glory.” Exhibition Catalogue. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
  20. “How To Be Together: On Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years.” Los Angeles Review of Books, December 2015.
  21. “The Quietly Revolutionary Carol.” Lenny Letter, November 2015.
  22. “Repetition and Difference in the Dardenne brothers’ Two Days One Night.”Los Angeles Review of Books, December 2014.
  23. “On Kara Walker’s A Subtlety.” Los Angeles Review of Books, June 2014.
  24. “The Unknown Inside: On Stranger by the Lake.” Los Angeles Review of Books, February 2014.

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