Here is a near-complete archive of my extant bylines. Each comes with some representative articles.
Hyperallergic (Written)
- “‘Documentary Reporting Has Become So Rigid’: Adam Curtis on Storytelling Today”
- “A Cinematographer’s Documentary About Making Documentaries”
- “In Ken Burns’s Vietnam War Documentary, Claims of Objectivity Obscure Patriotic Bias”
- “Remembering Studio Ghibli Co-Founder Isao Takahata, Who Imbued Animation with Emotion”
- “A New Trend Among Superhero Movies: The Villains Are Right”
- “Claire Denis on Black Holes, Olafur Eliasson, and the Making of High Life”
- “One of the Most Controversial Anime Ever Comes to Streaming for the First Time”
- “The Labor Rights Film That Got Both of Its Directors Murdered by the Yakuza”
- “Revisiting Watchmen and the Lessons We Have (and Haven’t) Learned From It”
- “What Is a Documentary These Days?”
- “Pedro Costa on Vitalina Varela and the Importance of ‘Everything That Goes Unsaid'”
- “Tiger King and the Unforgivable Sloppiness of Modern True Crime Shows”
- “‘The New Normal’ of Awful COVID-Themed Commercials”
- “The Ross Brothers Want to Make Messy Films”
- “How Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson Killed Her Father Multiple Times (for a Movie)”
- “Andrew Cuomo Got an Emmy for Literally Just Showing Up”
- “Zack Snyder’s Justice League, an Invaluable Historical Document of the Age of the Fan”
- “Inside The Viewing Booth, an Israel Supporter Reacts to Videos of the Occupation”
- “Fortnite Turns Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream Into a Sci-fi Nightmare”
- “The Loneliest Whale Tries to Find the Internet’s Favorite Whale”
- “Six Men Try to Heal Their Trauma with Groundbreaking Collaborative Filmmaking”
- “How John Wilson Turns Thousands of Hours of Video Into Unique Explorations of New York”
- “A Strange Hallucination Plagues Tilda Swinton in Memoria“
- “An Art Film Romance Takes a Rare Transcendentalist View”
- “Three Minutes of Film Are All That Remain of a Polish Jewish Town Before the Holocaust”
- “The Fake Town Where Police Trained to Suppress Protests”
- “Films to Watch on the 50th Anniversary of Okinawa’s Return to Japanese Rule”
- “A Crash Course in Method Acting”
- “No Bears Questions the Power of Cinema”
- “Tsai Ming-liang’s ‘Slow Cinema’ Contrasts the Bustle of Modern Life”
- “An Achingly Personal Portrait of Nan Goldin”
Hyperallergic (Edited)
- “How a Jeopardy! Champ’s Play to Become a Feminist Public Intellectual Crashed”
- “What the ‘Can You Pet the Dog?’ Test Reveals About Modern Video Games”
- “Reconsidering The Jinx as Robert Durst Goes on Trial”
- “When Documentaries Muddle the Truth Instead of Pursuing It”
- “‘There’s Some Leisure in It, Too’: Kevin Jerome Everson on Labor, Art, and Film”
- “The Cop-Attacking Chilean Dog Who Became a Worldwide Symbol of Protest”
- “Why Pimple Popping Videos Are So Strangely Satisfying”
- “MoMA’s Dave Kehr on Film Preservation and Why There’s Never Enough Money”
- “Jennie Livingston on Paris Is Burning 30 Years Later”
- “Black Squares Don’t Save Black Lives”
- “Where Does Independent Documentary Go From Here?”
- “The Idiosyncratic Archetypes of The Real Housewives”
- “For New York’s Movie Theaters, Reopening Won’t Be a Return to Business as Usual”
- “Jia Zhangke Talks About His Quest to Document a Rapidly Disappearing China”
- “Western Films About Africa Are Neocolonial Even When They Try Not to Be”
- “Theo Anthony on How the History of Cinema Led to the Modern Surveillance State”
- “‘Don’t Fuck With the Jews’ and Other Moments of Muscular Judaism on Film”
- “How Movies Have ‘Witnessed’ the Holocaust Over the Decades”
- “How Those Who Lived Through the Holocaust Have Testified in Film”
- “75 Years On, How Cinema Remembers the Holocaust”
- “The Three Versions of The Jazz Singer and the Sinister Bargain of Jewish Whiteness”
- “Why Do People Keep Finding Their Lives Onscreen Without Their Consent?”
- “Princess Diana’s Return to the Pop Culture Spotlight”
- “The Gleeful Blasphemy and Queer Nun Romance of Benedetta”
- “The Jackass Series Deserves Serious Recognition as Documentary Art”
- “The Passive, Tech-Obsessed Opening of the Winter Olympics”
- “Reckoning with Israeli Censorship Through Autofiction”
- “With Inland Empire, David Lynch Crafted a Nightmare on Home Video”
- “How the Marvel Cinematic Universe Exploits Comic Book Artists”
- “Pleasure Dispels Male Fantasies of Porn”
- “How Hollywood Has Helped Colonize Hawaiʻi”
- “In the Films of Dore O., Feelings Create Their Own Reality”
- “New HBO Series Offers People the Chance to Rehearse Big Life Changes”
Reverse Shot
- “Open Range: An Interview with Mike Leigh”
- “Making Waves: Avatar: The Way of Water“
- “And the Worlds Go Round: Outer Wilds and the Art of the Time-Loop Video Game”
MUBI Notebook
- “The Beasts on TV”
- “Shot Verse Shot: “Benediction” and Poetry in Cinema”
- “Inside Dreamland: The Boundless Imagination of Henry Selick”
- “‘I Leapt Into the Puddle’: An Interview with Peter Greenaway”
Immerse
- “Fighting Worlds”
- “‘As Organic as a Real Camera’: An Interview with Joe Hunting”
- “The Art of Avatar Creation”
- “Vicarious Gaming”
Criterion Current
Vox
- “An ode to Adventure Time, one of TV’s most ambitious — and, yes, most adventurous — shows”
- “Cinemax’s Banshee has the best fight scenes on TV. Here are 5 reasons why.”
- “TV is brimming with great action-adventure series. Here are 5 standouts.”
Polygon
- “Exploring anime master Masaaki Yuasa’s career in 5 recommendations”
- “The best video essays of 2018”
- “The best video essays of 2022”
- “Netflix’s Junji Ito Maniac translates Ito very faithfully and horrifically”
Observer
- “LA’s Bizarre Museum of Jurassic Technology Celebrates 30 Years—It’s Time You Visit”
- “How Jackie Chan’s Hair-Raising ‘Police Story’ Stunts Changed the Movie Industry”
- “Mike Leigh on Why His New Film About an 1819 Massacre Feels Eerily Relevant Today”
Los Angeles Magazine
- “Meet the Man Inside Big Bird”
- “Death, Memory, and Really Great Movies: Roger Ebert Revealed in ‘Life Itself'”
- “How the Wild, Untamed Energy of L.A. Inspired Nightcrawler”
- “Capturing the Fleeting Glory of the French House Music Scene”
- “The Vampire Western Noir Set in Iran and Filmed Near Bakersfield”
- “Ruben Östlund Got the Idea for His Golden Globe-Nominated Force Majeure From a YouTube Clip”
- “On the Menu at Sundance: Jonathan Gold Talks City of Gold”
- “Just How Independent Are the Film Independent Spirit Awards?”
Pacific Standard
The Los Angeles Times
Downtime
- “The Classic Ramen Western Tampopo Will Make You Rethink How You Eat”
- “Seconds Is One Of The Darkest, Most Prescient Movies Of The ’60s”
JoySauce
- “FOR MASAAKI YUASA, MUSIC MAKES THE MOVIE”
- “REVISITING THE FILMS OF ONE OF JAPAN’S MOST UNDERRATED DIRECTORS”
Inside Hook
The Film Stage
- “‘The Russian Woodpecker’ Team on Living in a State of Paranoia, Synergistic Miracles, and More”
- “Robert Greene and Kate Lyn Sheil Talk ‘Kate Plays Christine,’ Artificiality, Performance, and More”
- “[Review] The Nice Guys”
- “Cheryl Dunye on Making History with ‘The Watermelon Woman,’ Representation, and Performance”
- “Review: ‘The Book of Henry’ is a Miscalculated Combination of Dull and Ridiculous”
- “‘Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead’ and the Ruthless Serenity of Sidney Lumet’s Swan Song”
- “Review: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ is the Best Cyberpunk Film Since ‘The Matrix’”
- “‘The Post’ Review: Steven Spielberg’s Craft Gets Hobbled by a Script Not Fit to Print”
- “Sundance Review: ‘Leave No Trace’ is an Emotional, Quiet Study of a Father-Daughter Bond”
- “Sundance Review: ‘Bisbee ’17’ Captures the Living Memory of Generational Sin”
- “Sundance Review: ‘Shirkers’ is a Strange Time Capsule of a Film That Never Was”
- “True/False Review: ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ Embraces Sentimentality Over Complexity”
- “Review: ‘Ready Player One’ Has Verve But No Soul”
- “Locarno in L.A. Review: ‘Ouroboros’ Contrasts the Cycle of Violence in Gaza”
Massive
LAist
Little White Lies
Nonfics
- “Stevan Riley On ‘Listen to Me Marlon’ and the Editing of Marlon Brando’s Personal Archives”
- “How to Make a Movie While Scaling a Mountain”
- “Debra Granik On the Conventional Intentions With ‘Stray Dog’ and Her Plans for the Future”
Paste Magazine
Bright Wall/Dark Room
The Comics Journal
IGN
Vague Visages
- “Review: Ben Wheatley’s ‘High-Rise’”
- “TIFF 2017 Review: Lucrecia Martel’s ‘Zama’”
- “Sundance Film Festival Review: Josephine Decker’s ‘Madeline’s Madeline’”
- “True/False 2018 Review: Beata Bubenec’s ‘Flight of a Bullet’”