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The 10 Best Rom-Coms

The 10 Best Rom-Coms

Scott Tobias

In response to a debate yesterday over The Ringer's list of the 50 best rom-coms, none released earlier than 'Harold and Maude,' I offer a list of my own.

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In Review: 'Paris, 13th District' and 'We're All Going to the World's Fair'

In Review: 'Paris, 13th District' and 'We're All Going to the World's Fair'

Keith Phipps Scott Tobias

The director of 'A Prophet' finds crisscrossing lives and millennial ennui in the 13th arrondissement and an indie horror film logs into the melancholy terrors of an online community.

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The New Cult Canon: 'Trouble Every Day'

The New Cult Canon: 'Trouble Every Day'

Scott Tobias

Very few reviewers—your humble New Cult Canonizer excluded—had kind things to say about Claire Denis' grisly erotic horror film. But as the Denis cult has grown, so have critical reassessments.

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What’s It’s Like to Watch 'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent' After Spending a Couple of Years Thinking About Nicolas Cage

What’s It’s Like to Watch 'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent' After Spending a Couple of Years Thinking About Nicolas Cage

Keith Phipps

With a mix of excitement and dread, I finally caught up with a movie I've been thinking about for a long time.

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In Review: 'Ambulance,' 'All the Old Knives'

In Review: 'Ambulance,' 'All the Old Knives'

Scott Tobias Keith Phipps

Michael Bay continues to make Michael Bay movies with a choppy action film about brothers on an L.A. heist, and Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton try to untangle their past as CIA operatives and lovers.

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Oscars Aftermath: Catching Up With 'King Richard'

Oscars Aftermath: Catching Up With 'King Richard'

Keith Phipps

Will Smith finally won an Oscar, but has the slapping incident already made it hard to watch his acclaimed performance?

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