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Past articles by David:

RBG Is the Best Imaginable Retaliation to Mansplaining

Yes, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg doc is a hagiography of the Supreme Court justice, but it has its cheeky aspect. → Read More

In Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow, Capitalism Continues to Divide and Conquer

What you register in the 19th-century frontier drama is what’s absent: a sense of community, of a shared enterprise. → Read More

Robert the Bruce: The Braveheart Sequel Brings You More Angus Macfadyen and a Lot Less Blood

25 years after Mel Gibson yelled “freeeeeedom,” director Richard Gray brings Robert the Bruce back in a new sequel to Braveheart, starring more Angus Macfadyen and way less blood. → Read More

Paul Schrader Does Not Have Much Hope for the Future of Movies

After publicly condemning the producers who shut down his new movie ‘The Card Counter’ over coronavirus concerns, the ‘First Reformed’ director reflects in quarantine. → Read More

Lost Girls Is an Anti-Police Procedural

The Netflix film, directed by Liz Garbus and based on Robert Kolker’s book, will make you rethink your need for a certain kind of closure in a world that has so little of it. → Read More

In Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow, Capitalism Continues to Divide and Conquer

What you register in director Kelly Reichardt’s 19th-century frontier drama is what’s absent: a sense of community, of a shared enterprise. → Read More

In the Brief, Sad Hope Gap, Annette Bening Gives a Fascinating Performance

William Nicholson’s autobiographical English drama ‘Hope Gap’, co-staring Annette Bening and Bill Nighy, premiered at 2019’s Toronto International Film Festival. → Read More

The Best Movies of the Year (So Far)

From a fervent animated romantic fantasy to a brilliant depiction of trauma and loss in Russia at the end of World War II, these are the best movies of 2020 (so far). → Read More

‘Wendy’ Movie Review: Benh Zeitlin’s ‘Peter Pan’ Adaptation

Benh Zeitlin’s “Peter Pan” adaptation of “Wendy” is a ponderous take on a children’s classic, and is not nearly as exciting as his Best Picture Oscar nominee “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” → Read More

Every Movie of the 2010s, Ranked

Our critics pored over 5,279 of the decade’s films. Here’s the best, the worst, and the mehst, according to David Edelstein, Alison Willmore, Bilge Ebiri, and Angelica Jade Bastién. → Read More

Every Movie of the 2010s, Ranked

Our critics pored over 5,279 of the decade’s films. Here’s the best, the worst, and the mehst, according to David Edelstein, Alison Willmore, Bilge Ebiri, and Angelica Jade Bastién. → Read More

Parasite Is an Acid-Black Comedy That Eats at the Mind

At the heart of Bong Joon-ho’s latest film, “Parasite,” starring Song Kang-ho, Park So-dam, Choi Woo-shik, and Jang Hye-jin, is the most gnawing evolutionary fear of all, the inability to protect one’s family. → Read More

Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman Is One of the Most Satisfying Films in Decades

Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Harvey Keitel — is one of the most satisfying films in decades. The director has made his most stylish daring movie: one that is pointedly sapped of style. → Read More

In Steven Soderbergh’s Agitprop Comedy The Laundromat, the Meek Are Absolutely Screwed

Is Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat, starring Meryl Streep and Antonio Banderas, a poor man’s The Big Short? I would say it’s a heavily mortgaged middle-class man’s The Big Short, and that’s not such a bad thing. → Read More

Rambo: Last Blood and the Limits of the Macho-Male Fantasy

Adrian Grunberg’s Rambo: Last Blood, starring Sylvester Stallone, is too cruddy to waste time brooding on, but its hero’s 37-year trajectory (47 if you count from the novel) says a great deal about the narrowness of the macho-male fantasy life. → Read More

Ad Astra Is Mostly Brad Pitt and Nothing But

With “Ad Astra,” James Gray, even more successfully than in “Two Lovers” and “The Lost City of Z,” steeps you in his protagonist’s (Brad Pitt) psyche. → Read More

Ford v Ferrari Is an Old-fashioned Rouser

James Mangold’s Ford v Ferrari is an old-fashioned rouser that doesn’t misuse his head-rattling techniques. It brings a lot of new-fashioned virtuosity, too. → Read More

Natalie Portman Delivers an Astronomically Intense Performance in Lucy in the Sky

Even when we don’t know what the hell is going on in Noah Hawley’s astronaut epic “Lucy in the Sky,” Natalie Portman is a blast. → Read More

The Goldfinch: When Adaptation Is Way Too Reverent

The Goldfinch movie adaptation, directed by John Crowley, is too artful to deserve outright rejection, but too arty to keep you from saying, “What did I just see?” → Read More

What Fresh Hell Is This?

In honor of the late Daniel Johnston, we’re revisiting the 2006 documentary ‘The Devil and Daniel Johnston’ that brought the eccentric musician’s defiant life to screen. → Read More