“Mickey 17” Review: Major Pattinson, You’re Pretty in the Most Peculiar Way
I have some bad news for Robert Pattinson: He is a charming, handsome, and charismatic man.
Taking the Ridley Scott Voight-Kampff Test
Luckily, no physical violence was involved.
Bennett’s Final 2024 Oscar Predictions
We recorded our Predictions Podcast before the SAG, DGA, and PGA Awards. I have altered my predictions accordingly.
“Cleaner” Review: Live Dirty or Clean Hard
“Cleaner” could have been the existential slapstick thriller of the season. Alas, it has other ideas.
Anatomy of a Scene: Justin Long Is Just Not That Into Ginnifer Goodwin. Or Is He?
In “He’s Just Not That Into You” (2009), Gigi (Ginnifer Goodwin) isn’t dating Alex (Justin Long)…yet.
“Asura” Review: A Cerebral Soap Opera From the Director of “Shoplifters”
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Netflix series is about four sisters and the unfaithful father they’re stuck with.
“The Magic Hours” Review: A Brilliant Biography of Terrence Malick’s One Big Soul
It is a book about Malick, and also a Malickian book.
And the 2024 Oscar Nominees Should Be…. (According to Bennett)
If Fools Who Dream’s founder/editor ran the Academy, this is who/what he’d nominate.
“The Brutalist” Review: There Will Be Architecture
There is always the possibility that the director you decry today will be the director you defend tomorrow.
Bennett’s Top 12 Movies of 2024
This is how liberty survives—through thunderous art.
