Writing

Film

The Megalopolis That Francis Ford Coppola Wanted to Make
Blink Twice Is a Horror Movie About Befriending the Powerful
How Good One Grasps Growing Up in a Single Conversation
What’s Really Epic About Furiosa
The Zone of Interest Understands the Sound of Cruelty
Greta Gerwig’s Lessons From Barbie Land
Past Lives Is a Love Story Timed to Perfection
The Real Legacy of Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret
Sarah Polley Knows What’s Missing From Our Discourse
Decision to Leave Is This Century’s First Great Erotic Thriller
In Aftersun, a Parent Feels Just Out of Reach
How Two Filmmakers Made a Movie About Everything Everywhere All at Once
A Little Women That Gives Amy March Her Due
Malcolm & Marie Isn’t Art. It’s a Meltdown.
The Thrill—and Burden—of Making Crazy Rich Asians

Television

Say Nothing Goes Beyond Good vs. Evil
Shōgun Is Challenging Hollywood’s Most Revered Stereotype
The Radical Reinvention of The Bear
You’ve Never Seen Anything Quite Like The Rehearsal
The Powerful, Unlikely Force Shaping Modern TV
How Long Does It Really Take for a TV Show to ‘Get Good’?
To Hillary Clinton, Hillary Isn’t Really About Her at All
The TV Fan Club That Became an Intimate Grief Group
The Deep Sadness of Marvel’s WandaVision
The Strangely Charming World of Los Espookys

Profiles

How Jimmy O. Yang Became a Main Character
Sean Baker Is Independent Cinema’s Best Hustler
Lee Isaac Chung Reimagines Twister for a New Era
Jon M. Chu’s Second Act
Gillian Flynn Is Obsessed With Conspiracies
Tracee Ellis Ross Felt Lost in Hollywood. Then She Changed Course.
Lulu Wang, Director of The Farewell, Welcomes Your Tears
Julio Torres, The Comic With the Amazing Technicolor Wardrobe
Bill Skarsgård Likes Starring in Your Nightmares
Luke Cage Is Only the Beginning for Mike Colter
John Cho Is Changing the Face of American Horror — and More

Essays

The Engrossing Darkness of the ’90s Cult Classic The Crow
The Minions Are Good. I’m Serious.
What Avril Lavigne Has Always Understood About Growing Up
What the Controversy Over Turning Red Misses
Hollywood Doesn’t Know What to Do With Angelina Jolie
Elon Musk’s SNL Hosting Gig Is a Trap
A Confusing, Experimental Oscars
Taylor Swift Misses the Old Taylor Swift, Too

News

The Brat-ification of Kamala Harris
The Hollywood Dual Strike Isn’t Just About the Writers and Actors
Why Hollywood Can’t Quit Guns
Can There Be Too Much Applause?
When the Fantasy of The Bachelor Finally Met Reality
Who Goes to Disney World During a Pandemic?
BoJack Horseman‘s Diane Problem Is Now an Industry Problem
Will Sex Scenes Survive Social Distancing?
How Hollywood Became Obsessed With De-aging Its Stars

For more of my writing, visit my author pages at The Atlantic, Entertainment Weekly, and Wired.