Jason Bailey
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2022's box-office hits like Top Gun, Wakanda Forever and Avatar proved moviegoing didn't die
This year's box-office hits proved that the streaming stopgaps we’d used while trapped at home during the lockdown would not be the complete end of theatrical film exhibitions. → Read More
7 Overlooked New York City Movies You Need To Watch
From 'King Kong' to 'Kids', New York has an iconic cinematic history. Here, author Jason Bailey spotlights some of the city's more underrated gems. → Read More
'Bombshell''s Big Harassment Scene Has a Big Problem
Bombshell, Jay Roach’s dramatization of the fall of Fox News head Roger Ailes, went into wide release last weekend, propelled by a good early showing (at least for its actors) in the year-end awards: two Golden Globe nominations (Charlize Theron for… → Read More
Flavorwire's Top 25 Films of 2019
I’ve been making this list for this site for eight years now (look it up!) and I can’t recall it ever being harder to make – or easier. It was harder in the sense that 2019 was an incredibly strong year for new movies, especially for a soft touch… → Read More
What to Watch on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Blu-ray This Week
If there were any justice in this world, this week’s big 4K and Blu-ray release would’ve been one of the year’s biggest hits. Alas. Also this week: two terrific new indies (one foreign, one doc) and a forgotten ‘90s gem on disc, and a couple of… → Read More
Flavorwire's IFFAM 2019 Diary
Attending a film festival in Macao, China, isn’t really all that different than going to one in Park City or Toronto. The food is better, to be sure. And the filmmakers and stars stand awkwardly in front of the audience before the movie rather than… → Read More
What to Watch on Netflix, Amazon, and Blu-ray This Week
Not one, not two, but three of the year’s best movies hit disc or streaming this week, which would be exciting enough on its own. But we’ve also got a restored ‘80s gem, one of the great ‘70s dramas, a new documentary movie lovers will adore, and a… → Read More
What to Watch on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Blu-ray This Week
One of the year’s best movies pops up on Amazon Prime this week, and a delicious horror/action/comedy leads the new disc releases. Plus, a first-rate bio-doc, two new Criterion additions, and an always-rewatchable Best Picture winner returns to… → Read More
Flavorwire's 2019 Holiday Gift Guide
Thanksgiving week is upon us again, and you know what that means: it’s time to start thinking about some gift-giving. (Or maybe not! Things are tight all over, that’s undeniable, and if the holidays have always been overtly commercialized, they seem… → Read More
What to Watch on Netflix, Hulu, and Blu-ray This Week
You can tell the Thanksgiving holidays are upon us, for two reasons: 1) Netflix is unleashing its biggest movie to date, with a three-and-a-half-hour running time that’s perfect for post-Thanksgiving nothing-to-do time; and 2) several of our… → Read More
'Knives Out,' Reviewed
Rian Johnson’s Knives Out opens with the image of a giant manor house. Strings surge loudly on the soundtrack; hounds run from the estate in slow-motion. This, folks, is how you open your movie – with big, broad, theatrical gestures, acknowledging… → Read More
What Disney+ Really Tells Us About Disney
And, like that, it’s all there. Tuesday brought the launch of Disney+, the cultural behemoth’s long-promised, much-hyped streaming service – delivering, well, most of the feature films, TV movies, and shows from the company’s decades-long reign.… → Read More
What to Watch on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Blu-ray This Week
Two summer sleepers hit disc this week, and both are worth your time. And that’s not all – we’ve got two must-see indies, a new release of an animated classic, an unsung ‘90s gem from Criterion, and a triple feature of ace ‘70s crime movies from KL… → Read More
'Doctor Sleep,' Reviewed
In retrospect, my first mistake was probably re-watching Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining the night before my press screening of Doctor Sleep, Mike Flanagan’s new film adaptation of Stephen King’s follow-up novel. I was explicitly encouraged to by the… → Read More
Tallgrass Film Festival 2019 Wrap-Up
I always try to make the journey back to my hometown of Wichita, Kansas not just because the Tallgrass Film Festival is one of the great under-the-radar fests in the country, but because it gives me a chance to catch up – their savvy programmers are… → Read More
What to Watch on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Blu-ray This Week
One of our favorite TV shows gets a straight-to-Netfix sequel this week, and one of the year’s best documentaries lands on disc. And over on the catalogue side, we’ve got two silent classics and two horror/comedies – one beloved, one all but lost.… → Read More
Flavorwire's NYFF 2019 Diary
The 57th New York Film Festival drew to close over the weekend, proving (once again) to be one of the country’s most reliable surveys of the best of contemporary cinema – a handful of premieres, an abundance of must-see titles from other fests… → Read More
'Gemini Man,' Reviewed
“It’s like watching the Hindenburg crash into the Titanic,” Clay Verris (Clive Owen) fumes in Ang Lee’s Gemini Man, and it’s almost a dare to make a movie this bad, and put a line like that in it, and not expect to have it quoted back to you.… → Read More
What to Watch on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Blu-ray This Week
This week’s big new disc releases are buzzy summer titles that couldn’t be further apart: the latest installment in a long-running family franchise, and a brutal slab of broad-daylight horror. Let’s take a look at those, and some catalogue titles… → Read More
What to Watch on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Blu-ray This Week
A summer smash and a sleeper hit documentary are the “new” of this week’s new releases, but the big news is over on the 4K shelf – where, just in time for Halloween, three creepy classics are getting the big UltraHD upgrade. All those, and more,… → Read More