part of what I strive to cultivate in my voice is not just judging all the time, but also putting whatever I’m considering in greater context, so that it’s not just opinion, adjective, adverb, opinion, adjective, adverb. Sometimes you need the writing to connect to the world at large because the movie is not that interesting on its own terms.

Films that scramble the codes and signals of sexuality, wherever that sexuality may fall on the spectrum, are of immense interest to me because it’s a reminder of how each human being is a welter of infinite contradictions. I’m so much more interested in that kind of cinema as opposed to a very programmatic cinema that is interested only in... See more