Salieri and Suffering For Great Art

We have an obsession with lists and aggregated polls that crown a single film as the champion of the art form, but we think precious little about what we mean by that prestigious label.

Queer (2024) is a dizzying depiction of the disjointed existence of Lee (Daniel Craig), an expatriate living in Mexico City, whose life has been consumed by fervent drug use and lust. The film is an interesting experience, to say the least, especially given the grip that Call Me By Your

There's a certain genre of film that I've actively avoided throughout my life, that being the excessively acclaimed, oversaturated collection of films that cinephiles relentlessly reference. It's not that I actually thought these films were bad; most were quite good or at least entertaining,