Adam Nayman

Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ Is a Mirror. Like What You See? The Big Picture · Episode

EDDINGTON is the movie of the year. Maybe of the decade.

Amanda, @brofromanother.bsky.social, and I dive into it on The Big Picture. Then Ari Aster joins me to talk about his new film.

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Thanks for taking the time for all that, I did read it. I will say that only one of these three movies that feels like art to me— which is open and risky enough to "give myself over to" as you put it, and which is dealing with reality as I recognize it, albeit in a funny, stylized way— is TRAP.

On SUPERMAN, for @the-ringer.bsky.social

OK, I'll bite: what are SUPERMAN's terms? And what are TRAP's terms? Which parts of these reviews (newrepublic.com/article/1844...); www.theringer.com/2024/02/29/d... do you disagree with? You tagged me, soI'm asking with genuine interest.

‘28 Years Later’ Is Infectious Two decades removed from the frenetic glory of the first films, anything was possible with a return to the franchise. Consider what we got a best-case scenario.

There’s no discharge in a war, and no iPhone charger, either. On Danny Boyles’s goofy and moving 28 YEARS LATER for @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2025/06/20/m...

Materialists review: Match me if you can Celine Song’s second feature starring Dakota Johnson as a matchmaker for rich New Yorkers aims for screwball velocity, but the dialogue keeps missing the mark.

On Celine Song's MATERIALISTS, for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

fantastic piece. Parts of Materialists bothered me in ways that reminded me of one of my least favourite movies ever (Up in the Air).

On THE REHEARSAL season 2, for @thewalrus.ca

Tried to take Avery on a set of failed adventures today (TTC delays, fire station not open to visitors, lousy weather). Apologized to her as we limped home in the grey. “It’s ok, it was fun to be out, don’t worry.” Occasionally life is perfect.

For @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy on THE STUDIO, which nibbles the hand that feeds

The Woman in the Yard review: no garden variety horror Director Jaume Collet-Serra brings an expressionist touch to a domestic horror about a grieving family featuring terrific lead performance from Danielle Deadwyler.

On THE WOMAN IN THE YARD, www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Val Kilmer obituary: mercurial A-lister who toggled between total immersion and resistance From his Iceman in Top Gun to an uncanny Jim Morrison in The Doors, Kilmer was a gifted Method man known for his heart-on-sleeve weirdness and myriad eccentricities.

From his Iceman in Top Gun to an uncanny Jim Morrison in The Doors, Van Kilmer was a gifted Method man known for his heart-on-sleeve weirdness and myriad eccentricities. By @brofromanother.bsky.social

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21st-Century Cinema in Review: ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ Kicking off a yearlong series about the movies that defined the last 25 years of filmmaking, two critics tackle the one blockbuster to rule them all

Here is the first instalment of a new monthly essay series for @the-ringer.bsky.social , co-written by myself and @manilazic.bsky.social we’ve made a list of 10 films from the last 25 years that we wanted to go back and forth about; first up, THE LORD OF THE RINGS www.theringer.com/2025/03/28/m...

The Irishman and the Empty Man: The Biden Years On-Screen, Part One | Los Angeles Review of Books In the first installment of a quarterly series, Brendan Boyle and Adam Nayman use two films as a lens on the Biden years.

Collaborating with @brendanowicz.bsky.social on a four part series on Biden era cinema for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social; part one is out today

In Dreams, David Lynch Walked With Us The iconic director who spanned generations, built worlds unto their own, and redefined multiple forms of media, passed away at the age of 78

I have a David Lynch story: www.theringer.com/2025/01/16/m...

i wish

Robbie Williams Has a Biopic. In It, He’s Played by a Monkey. ‘Better Man’ is as bonkers as it sounds—and there’s something respectable about that

On Michael Gracey’s kamikaze, schlock-expressionist pop musical BETTER MAN, which exists beyond good and evil, and which I quite enjoyed. For @the-ringer.bsky.social
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Never at length but it’s really good, I agree.

YouTube video by Ringer Movies The Top 10 Films of 2024, According to Adam Nayman | Video Essays | Ringer Movies

For @the-ringer.bsky.social, a video essay on the year's best films, featuring HERE, TRAP, THE BEAST, JUROR NO. 2 and RED ROOMS www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGEL...

Just read this terrific book cover to cover; a study worthy of its subject, which happens to be one of the greatest movies I’ve ever seen. Lucid, meticulous, imaginative and controlled criticism, if you like CURE it’s a must read

Chuck Palahniuk getting paid by the word

‘Nosferatu’ Is Accomplished and Masterful (Derogatory) Robert Eggers’s take on the centuries-old vampire tale shows, once again, his knack for meticulous filmmaking. The question is whether he’s found any heart in his own studied construction.

On Robert Eggers' drained, enervating NOSFERATU, for @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2024/12/23/m...

A Complete Unknown Misses the Elusive Genius of Bob Dylan The biopic starring Timothée Chalamet is a star-is-born fable viewed with 20/20 hindsight and through rose-tinted glasses.

On James Mangold’s burnished and earnest A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, which sends Bob Dylan freewheeling down the middle of the road, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1889...

‘The Brutalist’ Is an Achievement—and It Knows It No other American movie released this year can compete as an object of potential film-cultural worship (even if, at times, worship seems to be the goal)

On Brady Corbet's THE BRUTALIST, for @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2024/12/18/m...

The Best Shots of 2024 In a screenshot-happy world, these filmmakers and cinematographers behind ‘The Brutalist,’ ‘Deadpool & Wolverine,’ and beyond provided singular glimpses that speak to the whole of their works

On some images that stuck with me this year, for @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2024/12/17/m...

@carriecoon.bsky.social often on big pic with sean; I’d like to ask the first couple of physical media a couple of questions for a project I’m working on, easily DM’d here (I think)

“My dad got a package with a dog treat from a movie called Babygirl” - Lea to all the other parents outside school

Be prepared

The Best Movies of 2024 In a year defined by anxiety, the movies that broke through were the ones that managed to capture such a grim outlook with bizarre, bitter humor

On the best films of 2024, for @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2024/12/10/m...

A review of The Witch (2015) Before he was a dual-use punching bag/poster boy for people—like yourself, dear reader—with the exactly correct opinions about "elevated horror," (some of it is ok!) Robert Eggers was a smart young di...

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