Staff Writer @CNN. Eyes on cinema. Retweets ≠ endorsements.

London
Joined May 2011
Gentlemen, you can't drill here. This is the Arctic! I dug Digger, a beautiful two-hour anxiety attack. A film of showy performances and glossy artifice, sitting atop a story that made my stomach drop — exactly, I imagine, as Iñárritu intended.
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I'm not an influencer, just a humble interviewer. I'll say this about The Odyssey: It's an astonishing spectacle and a brilliant, subversive adaptation. The scale was a given, but Nolan's psychological interrogation of events was what satisfied me most. A bracingly modern take.
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Yawn. Muting this. FWIW, a clarification: Nolan's adaptation is subversive and modern through his characterization of Odysseus; a portrait with shades of Oppenheimer. But good to know so many people still care about the Classics.
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Short story: One day they set up the green room in a Backrooms set not being used that day (I won't spoil which). It creeped out Renate Reinsve so much she asked to be removed.
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BACKROOMS: The first film to truly capture the banal terror of generative AI? One of many ideas knocking around Parsons’ ambitious debut. One thing’s for sure: he translates the web series’ ominous aura to the big screen seamlessly.
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Watching Ryan Gosling in PROJECT HAIL MARY reminded me of peak Tom Hanks. He’s the special effect, making you believe in the make believe. Helluva film, helluva performance.
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Another triumph from @davidehrlich. It always arrives at the perfect time: exhausted from the awards season slog, daunted by Sundance schedules. A reminder why you loved these films — and film in general — in the first place.
THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025 A Video Countdown vimeo.com/1156345183
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There are many reasons to recommend it — Chalamet untethered, Paltrow’s a star is reborn turn, Safdie’s propulsive direction — but MARTY SUPREME features the best set of mugs I’ve seen all year. Same logic as Nolan’s starry casting of Oppenheimer: every face is memorable.
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You’re going to need to trust me when I say AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH and ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER have a lot in common. Seriously.
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Joachim Trier summer (and fall, and maybe forever). I spoke to the maestro and his cast about Sentimental Value. Of course I asked him about those Netflix jokes. cnn.com/2025/11/11/entertain…
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A couple of weeks ago I sat down with Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Yorgos Lanthimos and Will Tracy to chew over BUGONIA. It's a fascinating film; provocative, spiky, with, I'd argue, a very tender underbelly. Links below. Out in cinemas today.
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