This past weekend, American moviegoers were treated to the wide release of TÁR, the director Todd Field’s first feature film in more than 16 years. To help unpack this complex and divisive study of the […]
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The Strawberry Criterion: NOPE
Though claims of its existence are still subject to debate, there remains a small but vocal community of diehard genre fans that continues to assert, despite all evidence to the contrary, that Jordan Peele once […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Blonde
In the climactic scene of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), Andrew Dominik’s since-canonized arthouse western, a potent collection of American iconography is simultaneously laid to rest and reanimated: a […]
William’s Almost Instant Reactions to the 2022 Academy Awards
After the shocking events at Sunday night’s Academy Awards ceremony, the BPoFD editorial board held an emergency vote to authorize a follow-up interview with Oscars historian William Glick. Following more than 12 straight hours of […]
BPOFD’s Top Ten Movies of 2021 WIth Zero Explanations
Top Ten Movies of 2021 1. Red Rocket 2. Can’t Get You Out of My Head 3. Last Duel 4. Titane 5. French Dispatch 6. Benedetta 7. Stillwater 8. The Green Knight 9. DUNE 10. Together, Together
BPoFD Podcast Episode #26: Oscars 2020 with William Glick
In Episode #26 of the BPoFD podcast, managing editor Carmen Petaccio again sits down with playwright and Oscars historian William Glick to discuss the 2020 Academy Awards. Highlights include predictions for the five major categories, Carmen’s […]
The BPoFD Top 25 Films of the 2010s
Here are the 25 best films of the 2010s, as determined by the editorial board of Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators. The films are ordinally ranked by the magnitude of their aesthetic achievement. The BPoFD […]
The Strawberry Criterion: JOKER
Few works of art are less dangerous than a work of art billed as “dangerous,” especially when the ones doing the billing are the feckless, fangless goobers of contemporary cinema’s critical class. Since its premiere, […]
The Strawberry Criterion: MIDSOMMAR
At least to date, the horror films of Ari Aster have shown two principal areas of interest, grief and cults, topics the writer-director tends to explore in that same, deliberate order. In Hereditary, his debut feature […]
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