The protagonist of Ready Player One, the new Steven Spielberg movie, plays video games as an avatar named “Parzival,” who all the other characters inexplicably call “Z.” This would be like having a friend named “Daniel” […]
Category: Movies
The Strawberry Criterion: Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri
The setting of the latest Martin McDonough film, Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri, is unlike any in the history of cinema, science fiction included. Whether set on the surface of the moon or in the […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Black Panther
All superhero movies are stupid, but each superhero movie is stupid in its own special way. In the Marvel cinematic universe, this general stupidity tends to manifest itself in the forms of obligatory cross-promotion, bland […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Phantom Thread
The acclaimed dressmaker at the center of Phantom Thread, the new film from Paul Thomas Anderson, sews cryptic notes into the seams of his creations, secret messages never to be glimpsed by any eyes but his […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Last Jedi
As there is matter and anti-matter, can there be film and anti-film? If the satisfaction of certain aesthetic and formal criteria can be said to make a film “recognizable,” what would an absolute failure to […]
David Sally’s Top 50 Films of the Century So Far
On Monday, in response to the New York Times‘s list of the Top 25 Films of the Century So Far, BPoFD announced its own list of the Top 25 Films of the Century So Far. Now, […]
BPoFD’s 25 Best Films of the 21st Century So Far
Last week, The New York Times released its list of the 25 Best Films of the 21st Century So Far, with accompanying commentary from two of its better critics, Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott, as well as […]
The BPoFD Summer Movie Preview: 2017 Edition
In summer the movie house is everything but quiet, its worlds all chaos, raging. Is the summer night like a perfection of thought? Not for the moviegoer, who shuffles from outside heat to cool theater […]
My 2017 Oscars Ballot
This Sunday, the 89th Academy Awards will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Here are my predictions for some of the categories. Best Picture What Will Win: La La Land What Should Win: Moonlight […]
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