I talked to David Cronenberg about The Shrouds: “One of the things about people dying, especially when they die young, is that it seems meaningless. We have evolved to look for meaning in everything. It’s one of the strengths and weaknesses of our species. And if you can't find meaning, you invent meaning, and that's what a conspiracy theory is.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 04/24/2025

“It’s the best baseball movie since Bull Durham — or maybe Bad Lieutenant — because it explores this sport’s peculiar ability to bend and distort time. As the shadows on Soldiers Field get longer, an elegiac ache settles in. Eephus is more than a movie about a game, it’s about reaching a time in your life when it feels like it’s getting late earlier and earlier.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/13/2025

“An unseemly amount of the dialogue in The Final Reckoning is like Baldwin’s ‘living manifestation of destiny’ speech, except not played for laughs. There are films about the life of Christ that spend less time proclaiming the divinity of their protagonist. Yet just like in the movies, right when all seems lost, Cruise miraculously comes through.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 05/22/2025

"Kilmer plays the most lethal of De Niro’s crew, moving with such coiled menace and weapons expertise that actual drill sergeants use clips of his reloading technique to teach new recruits. He’s also the most vulnerable dude in the movie. Witness the utter devastation of his stoic farewell to wife Ashley Judd, where we see all a man’s hopes for future happiness draining silently from his eyes.” - WBUR's Arts & Culture, 05/12/2025

“I don’t begrudge anyone for not wanting to sit through a movie this miserable and intentionally upsetting, but the trigger warning is right there in the NC-17 rating and there’s no shame in not being tall enough for the ride. There should be a place for films like Blonde to explore unpleasant images and ideas for an adult audience, preferably one that knows how to behave in public.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 09/27/2022

“A much better Texas Chainsaw Massacre tribute than that wretched thing on Netflix last month and way smarter about slasher movies than the recent Scream sequel, writer-director Ti West’s X is a deliciously grisly entertainment existing on a level of craft well above most multiplex offerings, genre or otherwise. It is blessedly content to be a blast." - North Shore Movies, 03/18/2022