Adam Nayman
@brofromanother.bsky.social
Let’s count the rings around my eyes
on HAMNET, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Something Is Rotten in Chloe Zhao’s “Hamnet”
The movie starring Paul Mescal makes the life of Shakespeare a melodrama.
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December 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
on HAMNET, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2041...
On FRANKENSTEIN for @newrepublic newrepublic.com/article/2027...
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein Plays It Too Safe
The Netflix movie, starring Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac, is lavish and meticulous—and strangely hollow.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
On FRANKENSTEIN for @newrepublic newrepublic.com/article/2027...
On Kathryn Bigelow's A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, for @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2025/10/22/m...
In ‘A House of Dynamite,’ the End of the World Is Ho Hum
Kathryn Bigelow’s latest feature, hitting Netflix this weekend, documents doomsday from the too-static confines of a situation room
www.theringer.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
On Kathryn Bigelow's A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, for @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2025/10/22/m...
On Luca Guadagnino's enervating AFTER THE HUNT, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2011...
After the Hunt Would Like to Touch a Nerve
Director Luca Guadagnino has turned transgression into its own sort of comfort zone.
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October 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
On Luca Guadagnino's enervating AFTER THE HUNT, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2011...
On Jafar Panahi’s IT WAS ONLY AN ACCIDENT, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2011...
Jafar Panahi’s Revenge Road Trip Masterpiece
“It Was Just An Accident” reckons with cruelty and repression.
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October 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
On Jafar Panahi’s IT WAS ONLY AN ACCIDENT, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2011...
This is next Tuesday afternoon; excited to talk about this group of movies. Hope you'll consider joining the session. miskatonicinstitute.com/events/sunke...
Sunken Places: Hypnosis in Horror Cinema (Online) - The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
Horror cinema's obsession with mind-controlling mesmerists illuminates something essential – and unsettling – about the very nature of film spectatorship.
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October 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is next Tuesday afternoon; excited to talk about this group of movies. Hope you'll consider joining the session. miskatonicinstitute.com/events/sunke...
On Paul Thomas Anderson's phenomenal ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, for @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2025/09/24/m...
‘One Battle After Another’ Is Paul Thomas Anderson at His Best
A director who never misses is back with his most urgent film to date, about the messed up world we’re passing on to our children
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September 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
On Paul Thomas Anderson's phenomenal ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, for @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2025/09/24/m...
A few years ago I did an online lecture for @miskatonicihs.bsky.social
on SPOORLOOS and had a blast; in October, I'll be doing another one on motifs of hypnosis in horror cinema, including clips from THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, CANDYMAN, CURE and GET OUT. miskatonicinstitute.com/events/sunke...
on SPOORLOOS and had a blast; in October, I'll be doing another one on motifs of hypnosis in horror cinema, including clips from THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, CANDYMAN, CURE and GET OUT. miskatonicinstitute.com/events/sunke...
Sunken Places: Hypnosis in Horror Cinema (Online) - The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
Horror cinema's obsession with mind-controlling mesmerists illuminates something essential – and unsettling – about the very nature of film spectatorship.
miskatonicinstitute.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
A few years ago I did an online lecture for @miskatonicihs.bsky.social
on SPOORLOOS and had a blast; in October, I'll be doing another one on motifs of hypnosis in horror cinema, including clips from THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, CANDYMAN, CURE and GET OUT. miskatonicinstitute.com/events/sunke...
on SPOORLOOS and had a blast; in October, I'll be doing another one on motifs of hypnosis in horror cinema, including clips from THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, CANDYMAN, CURE and GET OUT. miskatonicinstitute.com/events/sunke...
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EDDINGTON is the movie of the year. Maybe of the decade.
Amanda, @brofromanother.bsky.social, and I dive into it on The Big Picture. Then Ari Aster joins me to talk about his new film.
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Amanda, @brofromanother.bsky.social, and I dive into it on The Big Picture. Then Ari Aster joins me to talk about his new film.
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Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ Is a Mirror. Like What You See?
The Big Picture · Episode
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July 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
EDDINGTON is the movie of the year. Maybe of the decade.
Amanda, @brofromanother.bsky.social, and I dive into it on The Big Picture. Then Ari Aster joins me to talk about his new film.
open.spotify.com/episode/3dSC...
Amanda, @brofromanother.bsky.social, and I dive into it on The Big Picture. Then Ari Aster joins me to talk about his new film.
open.spotify.com/episode/3dSC...
On SUPERMAN, for @the-ringer.bsky.social
https://www.theringer.com/2025/07/11/dc/superman-movie-review-james-gunn-david-corenswet
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July 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
On SUPERMAN, for @the-ringer.bsky.social
There’s no discharge in a war, and no iPhone charger, either. On Danny Boyles’s goofy and moving 28 YEARS LATER for @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2025/06/20/m...
‘28 Years Later’ Is Infectious
Two decades removed from the frenetic glory of the first films, anything was possible with a return to the franchise. Consider what we got a best-case scenario.
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June 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
There’s no discharge in a war, and no iPhone charger, either. On Danny Boyles’s goofy and moving 28 YEARS LATER for @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2025/06/20/m...
On Celine Song's MATERIALISTS, for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Materialists review: Match me if you can
Celine Song’s second feature starring Dakota Johnson as a matchmaker for rich New Yorkers aims for screwball velocity, but the dialogue keeps missing the mark.
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June 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
On Celine Song's MATERIALISTS, for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
fantastic piece. Parts of Materialists bothered me in ways that reminded me of one of my least favourite movies ever (Up in the Air).
Celine Song’s Materialists is not just a bad movie - it is an eldritch horror with the veneer of a Maiden Home catalogue. I *hated* it:
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MATERIALISTS Broke Me
money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money mo
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June 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
fantastic piece. Parts of Materialists bothered me in ways that reminded me of one of my least favourite movies ever (Up in the Air).
On THE REHEARSAL season 2, for @thewalrus.ca
May 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
On THE REHEARSAL season 2, for @thewalrus.ca
Tried to take Avery on a set of failed adventures today (TTC delays, fire station not open to visitors, lousy weather). Apologized to her as we limped home in the grey. “It’s ok, it was fun to be out, don’t worry.” Occasionally life is perfect.
May 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Tried to take Avery on a set of failed adventures today (TTC delays, fire station not open to visitors, lousy weather). Apologized to her as we limped home in the grey. “It’s ok, it was fun to be out, don’t worry.” Occasionally life is perfect.
For @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy on THE STUDIO, which nibbles the hand that feeds
April 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
For @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy on THE STUDIO, which nibbles the hand that feeds
On THE WOMAN IN THE YARD, www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
The Woman in the Yard review: no garden variety horror
Director Jaume Collet-Serra brings an expressionist touch to a domestic horror about a grieving family featuring terrific lead performance from Danielle Deadwyler.
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April 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
On THE WOMAN IN THE YARD, www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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From his Iceman in Top Gun to an uncanny Jim Morrison in The Doors, Van Kilmer was a gifted Method man known for his heart-on-sleeve weirdness and myriad eccentricities. By @brofromanother.bsky.social
www.bfi.org.uk/features/val...
www.bfi.org.uk/features/val...
Val Kilmer obituary: mercurial A-lister who toggled between total immersion and resistance
From his Iceman in Top Gun to an uncanny Jim Morrison in The Doors, Kilmer was a gifted Method man known for his heart-on-sleeve weirdness and myriad eccentricities.
www.bfi.org.uk
April 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
From his Iceman in Top Gun to an uncanny Jim Morrison in The Doors, Van Kilmer was a gifted Method man known for his heart-on-sleeve weirdness and myriad eccentricities. By @brofromanother.bsky.social
www.bfi.org.uk/features/val...
www.bfi.org.uk/features/val...
Here is the first instalment of a new monthly essay series for @the-ringer.bsky.social , co-written by myself and @manilazic.bsky.social we’ve made a list of 10 films from the last 25 years that we wanted to go back and forth about; first up, THE LORD OF THE RINGS www.theringer.com/2025/03/28/m...
21st-Century Cinema in Review: ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’
Kicking off a yearlong series about the movies that defined the last 25 years of filmmaking, two critics tackle the one blockbuster to rule them all
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March 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Here is the first instalment of a new monthly essay series for @the-ringer.bsky.social , co-written by myself and @manilazic.bsky.social we’ve made a list of 10 films from the last 25 years that we wanted to go back and forth about; first up, THE LORD OF THE RINGS www.theringer.com/2025/03/28/m...
Collaborating with @brendanowicz.bsky.social on a four part series on Biden era cinema for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social; part one is out today
The Irishman and the Empty Man: The Biden Years On-Screen, Part One | Los Angeles Review of Books
In the first installment of a quarterly series, Brendan Boyle and Adam Nayman use two films as a lens on the Biden years.
lareviewofbooks.org
February 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Collaborating with @brendanowicz.bsky.social on a four part series on Biden era cinema for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social; part one is out today
I have a David Lynch story: www.theringer.com/2025/01/16/m...
In Dreams, David Lynch Walked With Us
The iconic director who spanned generations, built worlds unto their own, and redefined multiple forms of media, passed away at the age of 78
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January 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I have a David Lynch story: www.theringer.com/2025/01/16/m...
On Michael Gracey’s kamikaze, schlock-expressionist pop musical BETTER MAN, which exists beyond good and evil, and which I quite enjoyed. For @the-ringer.bsky.social
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Robbie Williams Has a Biopic. In It, He’s Played by a Monkey.
‘Better Man’ is as bonkers as it sounds—and there’s something respectable about that
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January 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
On Michael Gracey’s kamikaze, schlock-expressionist pop musical BETTER MAN, which exists beyond good and evil, and which I quite enjoyed. For @the-ringer.bsky.social
www.theringer.com/2025/01/07/m...
www.theringer.com/2025/01/07/m...
For @the-ringer.bsky.social, a video essay on the year's best films, featuring HERE, TRAP, THE BEAST, JUROR NO. 2 and RED ROOMS www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGEL...
The Top 10 Films of 2024, According to Adam Nayman | Video Essays | Ringer Movies
YouTube video by Ringer Movies
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December 30, 2024 at 9:28 PM
For @the-ringer.bsky.social, a video essay on the year's best films, featuring HERE, TRAP, THE BEAST, JUROR NO. 2 and RED ROOMS www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGEL...
Just read this terrific book cover to cover; a study worthy of its subject, which happens to be one of the greatest movies I’ve ever seen. Lucid, meticulous, imaginative and controlled criticism, if you like CURE it’s a must read
very happy that this is out in the world - it's long been an ambition to write a BFI Film Classic so I'm delighted to join the ranks of such an amazing series of books - and all just in time for the new 4k blu-ray next year! (which was very much not planned) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cure-9781...
Cure
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1997 psychological horror, Cure, follows a detective (played by Koji Yakusho) as he investigates a string of gruesome murders in Tokyo, where…
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December 30, 2024 at 2:05 AM
Just read this terrific book cover to cover; a study worthy of its subject, which happens to be one of the greatest movies I’ve ever seen. Lucid, meticulous, imaginative and controlled criticism, if you like CURE it’s a must read