Sitemap - 2020 - Smash Cut

New Year Double Feature: Beginners 🐶 + Before Sunrise 🌅

The Wedding Banquet 💒

Gone Girl 📕

‘Promising Young Woman’ has high ambitions | movie review

American Utopia 🌎 + Breaking down all that MCU news

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 🧊 + a review of George Clooney's latest

‘The Midnight Sky’ is less than inter-stellar | movie review

Dick Johnson is Dead ⚰️ + What to make of that Warner Bros. bombshell

‘Dick Johnson is Dead’ has fun with death | movie review

Singin' in the Rain ☔️ remains the undefeated movie musical

‘Black Bear’ is Aubrey Plaza’s best performance to date | movie review

‘Happiest Season’ makes the yuletide gay | movie review

Happiest Season 🎁 makes the yuletide gay

‘Run’ starts with a sprint but ends in a walk | movie review

About Time ⌚️ | a movie to fall in love to over and over

Resolution 📼 is a lo-fi sci-fi worth watching-fi

‘Resolution’ is a meta-horror sci-fi worth your time | movie review

‘Sound of Metal’ gives Riz Ahmed his Oscar role | movie review

‘First Cow’ is a nice movie about nice friends | movie review

‘Rebecca’ trades haunts for style | movie review

10 Great Romantic Comedies to Fall in Love With

‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ shows Sorkin’s weaknesses | movie review

‘Synchronic’ is what I love about science fiction | movie review

‘Lapsis’ satirizes the gig economy | Nightstream Film Fest

‘An Unquiet Grave’ is quietly frightening | Nightstream Film Fest

‘Anything For Jackson’ is a reverse exorcism gone wrong | Nightstream Film Fest

‘It Cuts Deep’ explores surface level relationships | Nightstream Film Fest

‘Possessor’ puts gore to good use | movie review

10 Great Spooky Movies to Stream (and goodbye 👋)

Ready or Not 🏹

‘Nomadland’ finds people on the margins | movie review

‘Fright Night’ (1985) is perfect 80s horror | What to stream

Fright Night 📺

‘Spiral’ is unapologetically gay horror | movie review

I'm Thinking of Ending Things ❄️

‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ is a long lonely road | movie review

Clue 🔎

Da 5 Bloods 🇻🇳

Spotlight 🗞

Melancholia 🪐

‘Host’ is the first coronavirus-era horror | movie review

‘Project Power’ fizzles out early | Netflix review

The Death of Stalin ⚰️

Nightcrawler 📹

‘Starred Up’ is emotional and brutal | movie review

Starred Up 🥊

Paterson 🚍

Green Room ❎

The Apartment 🏢

Train to Busan 🚄

‘The Rental’ is worth a buy | movie review

My Cousin Vinny ⚖️

The Old Guard ♾

Palm Springs 🌴

‘The Old Guard’ has new tricks | Netflix review

‘Halloween Kills’ moves to 2021

HBO Max: 10 Great Movies Now Streaming (July 2020)

Free Solo 🧗‍♂️

The Guest 🚪

Weekend 🚲

Do the Right Thing 🍕

‘Da 5 Bloods’ is Spike Lee’s best-acted joint yet | review

Rocketman ⭐️

Knives Out 🗡

Tangerine 🍊

Dolemite is My Name 🎥

Pride ⛏

Malcolm X 👓

10 Great LGBTQ Films with Happy Endings (and where to stream them)

I Am Not Your Negro 🖋

Short Term 12 🏫

Uncut Gems 💎

‘The Lovebirds’ shine, the movie not so much | Netflix review

‘Tingle Monsters’ is the first ASMR horror | short film review

‘Shirley’ is as haunting as its subject | review

The One I Love 🥓

The Descent 🔦

The Graduate 🎓

Mother 📍

The Half of It 🐛

‘The Half of It’ is the whole package | Netflix movie review

The Endless 🛸

10 Best Episodes of Schitt’s Creek

Force Majeure ⛷

Columbus 🗼

The Lighthouse ⛈

‘From Here to Eternity’ (1953) — Best Picture marathon

Spring 🐙

‘True History of the Kelly Gang’ and its punk rock Ned Kelly | movie review

Blue Ruin 🚙

‘Circus of Books’ and the family-run gay bookstore | movie review

The Big Sick 🦒

The Birdcage 🍽

Molly's Game ♠️♦️

Stop Making Sense 👔

The Conjuring vs. Insidious: The Art of Tension In Horror Movies

The Cabin in the Woods 🌲

Portrait of a Lady on Fire 🎨

Crip Camp 👩‍🦽

Lars and the Real Girl 💐

Moonstruck 🌕

‘The Carnivores’ and a third-wheeling dog — SXSW movie review

‘The Surrogate’ poses a moral dilemma — SXSW movie review

Steve Jobs 📱

The Last Black Man in San Francisco 🌉

‘Big Time Adolescence’ is Pete Davidson’s breakout — movie review

Obvious Child 📚

Paris is Burning 👠

Booksmart 🎓

‘The Invisible Man’ and the horrors of abuse — movie review

The Conversation 🎷

The Invitation 🍷

‘Premature’ and growing up through love — movie review

Up in the Air 🛫

‘To All The Boys: P.S. I Still Love You’ — movie review

The Ritual 🌲

‘Children of Men’ is as relevant today as ever | movie review

‘The Father’ is Anthony Hopkins’ greatest performance in decades — Sundance review

Hang the DJ 📱

The Farewell 👵 // Oscars recap

‘Parasite’ and the changing Oscars

Every Best Animated Short Film nominee, reviewed — 2020 Oscars

‘I Lost My Body’ is hands down one of the year’s more innovative films — Oscars spotlight review

‘Birds of Prey’ is the best DCEU movie yet — movie review

‘Toy Story 4’ is the sequel we never thought we needed but are happy to have — Oscars spotlight review

The Guilty ☎️

Thirty Seconds to Sell —Grading every Super Bowl movie trailer

2020 Oscars Final Predictions

‘How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’ is a satisfying conclusion — Oscar spotlight review

'The Lodge' twists itself into terrifying knots — movie review

'Klaus' is one festive mess of holiday cheer — Oscars spotlight review

20th Century Women 🛹

'Missing Link' evolves from the standard animation fare — Oscars spotlight review

10 Great Slow Burn Horror Movies (and where to stream them)

'Herself' rebuilds a woman's life — Sundance review

Sorry to Bother You 📞

‘Palm Springs’ will make you laugh, cry and repeat — Sundance review

‘Minari’ grapples with the American dream | Sundance movie review

'The Night House' terrifies — Sundance review

'Never Rarely Sometimes Always' tackles our failure of women's healthcare — Sundance review

Tickled 🖐

Midsommar 🌼

What's next? Who should direct 'Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness'

Sing Street 🎸

Amazing Grace 💒

Musical Movies Pt. 1: La La Land 🎹

'Underwater' rips off 'Alien' – and that's fine — movie review

Fresh Starts Pt. 3: The Cakemaker 🍰

Fresh Starts Pt. 2: Wild Rose 🎧

Fresh Starts Pt. 1: The First Wives Club 🚫💍

Never hold a 'Grudge' — and don't watch it either — movie review

'Little Women' is boldly told, but at a cost — movie review

Best Thrillers of the Decade (a running list)