Janet Maslin

Check your credit card to see who bills you.

SO tired.

Not better ones, Mark.

Say it here, for starters. Or at least try. An event like this calls for a very quick response. The full version can come later.

I wish you’d write about this.

Cousin Bobby, Something Wild and Philadelphia too.

YouTube video by Boot Leg Eric Andersen - Thirsty Boots (Live at the Phil Ochs Memorial Concert, 1976)

Eric Anderson sings his "Thirsty Boots" at the Phil Ochs Memorial Concert in 1976. As Eric says, this is "very heavy."

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Boston After Dark, later The Boston Phoenix❤️. Boston had two separate papers but the office in the film looks more like BAD’s. By 1971 I’d managed to start selling record reviews there after a miserable two months at Harvard as Dr. J.D. Watson’s secretary. Yeah, him. And free local news worked.

Turns out we didn’t.

Well done. Grok just ID’d Marty Supreme as Bob Dylan.

Please give us 10 days’ worth of news about the weather. We’ll like it. Promise.

This worked for Barbie and The Fall Guy too.

Will you believe them or your lying eyes?

The National Society of Film Critics has an award for the best film awaiting U.S. distribution. If you’re in a film-related voting group, consider doing this. And congratulations to Lucrecia Martel, who just won it for her documentary “Nuestra Terra.” It will be called “Landmarks” here.

You’re onto something.

Yes, mayflies are very focused during their brief lives. Save it. This isn’t worth arguing about.

Stay on these sites and you’ll have the attention span of a mayfly. Try to read, walk, visit. Do anything else.

Bloody hell.

Nobody is “approximately 78.” They must know who this is.

He may not have had accurate information. That’s worse.

Tom, if you still have my email can you write me? I’ve tried and failed to find yours. Old emails don’t last long any more.

It costs nothing to be noticed by critics’ groups, newspapers, magazines, any other press outlets. A few of them picked up on The Shrouds and that’s good. Tough watch, given the material. But there’ll are things in there that I’ve haven’t seen from anyone else.

Once sites like Criterion or IMDb identify them as 2024 films, awards groups tend to forget them. And neither lasted long in theaters, which is too bad. Both had U.S. 2025 commercial runs where I am.

Two films I greatly admired, David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds and Ron Howard’s Eden, have eligibility problems when it comes to 2025. Both opened commercially in the U.S. in 2025 but were screened elsewhere last year. As the awards game goes increasingly global, it’s too easy for this to happen.

Congratulations, Emily! Wow!

Awards season is only a week old and it’s already exhausting. The Oscars are nearly three months away.

Good name for that big honking trophy.

Weapons and Wake Up Dead Man were among them. Eden too.

Not eligible.

I voted for five of your favorites. And even for Roofman.