What if your face was an iPhone? What if your wife left you for an emoji? What if your self-driving car ran over a hologram, and it was a hologram of you? These are the […]
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 […]
2017 Top 10 Lists with Zero Explanations
Top Ten Movies of 2017 1. mother! 2. Good Time 3. The Killing of a Sacred Deer 4. War for the Planet of the Apes 5. Dunkirk 6. Ingrid Goes West 7. Okja 8. Beatriz at Dinner 9. The Meyerowitz Stories (New & […]
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 […]
My Dog’s EXCLUSIVE Interview with Lamby, the Rescue Dog that Lena Dunham Abandoned
Last month, after four years of performative devotion, Lena Dunham admitted to abandoning her beloved rescue dog, Lamby, citing the animal’s penchant for biting her white concave ass. Controversial reports quickly surfaced from Lamby’s original […]
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 […]
John Wisniewski for Governor: The Official BPoFD Endorsement
For the past seven years, the residents of New Jersey, our union’s greatest and most educated state, have been made a national laughingstock by their Republican governor, Chris Christie. Since assuming the office in 2010, […]
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 […]
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