Jacob Oller
@jacoboller.bsky.social
Film Editor at @avclub.com
Video Game Movie Expert
Southerner in Chicago
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Jacob Oller
@jacoboller.bsky.social
· Oct 17
This is the hardest I've ever known someone didn't watch the thing they were writing about
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For this month's Criterion column, I wrote about a beautifully bleak Coen brothers joint: The Man Who Wasn't There www.avclub.com/cult-of-crit...
Cult Of Criterion: The Man Who Wasn't There
With The Man Who Wasn't There, the Coen brothers tell one of their bleakest cosmic jokes in the language of film noir.
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February 11, 2026 at 2:36 PM
For this month's Criterion column, I wrote about a beautifully bleak Coen brothers joint: The Man Who Wasn't There www.avclub.com/cult-of-crit...
we asked the people inside the snake oil factory about their potions and elixirs - they say even THEY can't predict all their wonderful effects
Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg
February 11, 2026 at 3:10 PM
we asked the people inside the snake oil factory about their potions and elixirs - they say even THEY can't predict all their wonderful effects
For this month's Criterion column, I wrote about a beautifully bleak Coen brothers joint: The Man Who Wasn't There www.avclub.com/cult-of-crit...
Cult Of Criterion: The Man Who Wasn't There
With The Man Who Wasn't There, the Coen brothers tell one of their bleakest cosmic jokes in the language of film noir.
www.avclub.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:36 PM
For this month's Criterion column, I wrote about a beautifully bleak Coen brothers joint: The Man Who Wasn't There www.avclub.com/cult-of-crit...
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we crunched some numbers www.avclub.com/melania-budg...
Melania's budget could've paid the salaries of every fired Washington Post employee, three times over
An incomplete breakdown of Jeff Bezos' financial priorities, weighing one piece of propaganda (Melania) against 300 journalists.
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February 10, 2026 at 10:01 PM
we crunched some numbers www.avclub.com/melania-budg...
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That’s about what my calculations were
we crunched some numbers www.avclub.com/melania-budg...
Melania's budget could've paid the salaries of every fired Washington Post employee, three times over
An incomplete breakdown of Jeff Bezos' financial priorities, weighing one piece of propaganda (Melania) against 300 journalists.
www.avclub.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:05 PM
That’s about what my calculations were
we crunched some numbers www.avclub.com/melania-budg...
Melania's budget could've paid the salaries of every fired Washington Post employee, three times over
An incomplete breakdown of Jeff Bezos' financial priorities, weighing one piece of propaganda (Melania) against 300 journalists.
www.avclub.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:01 PM
we crunched some numbers www.avclub.com/melania-budg...
we've already gotten 300 applications for this! Please get yours in by the end of the week so I can know how much of my life will be devoted to reading cover letters
Extremely exciting news: We're hiring a full-time film critic to come work with me at The A.V. Club!
You probably have an idea if you're qualified for this, but if there's something that's not in the job listing, I'm sure I can answer Qs www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
You probably have an idea if you're qualified for this, but if there's something that's not in the job listing, I'm sure I can answer Qs www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
The A.V. Club hiring Film Critic in Greater Chicago Area | LinkedIn
Posted 8:42:22 PM. The A.V. Club is seeking an experienced Film Critic to join our team of trenchant writers and…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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February 10, 2026 at 5:35 PM
we've already gotten 300 applications for this! Please get yours in by the end of the week so I can know how much of my life will be devoted to reading cover letters
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Wrote about the lovely and odd body-swap movie that asks the question “Would the world treat a nice chair better than your average human woman?” www.avclub.com/by-design-re...
By Design imagines how lovely it would be to simply be a chair
Amanda Kramer's comic body-swapping fantasy By Design is precise, mannered, and warmly kooky. Also, a lady becomes a chair.
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February 10, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Wrote about the lovely and odd body-swap movie that asks the question “Would the world treat a nice chair better than your average human woman?” www.avclub.com/by-design-re...
Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights has transcended this Garth Marenghi bit and requires something stronger
February 10, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights has transcended this Garth Marenghi bit and requires something stronger
Wrote about the lovely and odd body-swap movie that asks the question “Would the world treat a nice chair better than your average human woman?” www.avclub.com/by-design-re...
By Design imagines how lovely it would be to simply be a chair
Amanda Kramer's comic body-swapping fantasy By Design is precise, mannered, and warmly kooky. Also, a lady becomes a chair.
www.avclub.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Wrote about the lovely and odd body-swap movie that asks the question “Would the world treat a nice chair better than your average human woman?” www.avclub.com/by-design-re...
Extremely exciting news: We're hiring a full-time film critic to come work with me at The A.V. Club!
You probably have an idea if you're qualified for this, but if there's something that's not in the job listing, I'm sure I can answer Qs www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
You probably have an idea if you're qualified for this, but if there's something that's not in the job listing, I'm sure I can answer Qs www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
The A.V. Club hiring Film Critic in Greater Chicago Area | LinkedIn
Posted 8:42:22 PM. The A.V. Club is seeking an experienced Film Critic to join our team of trenchant writers and…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
www.linkedin.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Extremely exciting news: We're hiring a full-time film critic to come work with me at The A.V. Club!
You probably have an idea if you're qualified for this, but if there's something that's not in the job listing, I'm sure I can answer Qs www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
You probably have an idea if you're qualified for this, but if there's something that's not in the job listing, I'm sure I can answer Qs www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
our review basically just says "get hornier you cowards" over and over again
Overlong and undersexed, Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights betrays her audience of edgelords and perverts. Our review:
Wuthering Heights trades transgression for tradition, finding the worst of both worlds
Overlong and undersexed, Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights betrays her audience of edgelords and perverts.
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February 9, 2026 at 8:22 PM
our review basically just says "get hornier you cowards" over and over again
I mean, among other reasons, it's because Melania has made about the same amount at the box office as the 1996 Pauly Shore film Bio-Dome
February 9, 2026 at 4:50 PM
I mean, among other reasons, it's because Melania has made about the same amount at the box office as the 1996 Pauly Shore film Bio-Dome
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Join me, won't you, for a journey to the land of Tinkerdee, the end of sex and violence on television, and Kermit doing King Lear opposite a Coke can potentially voiced by Kelsey Grammer
It's time to lower the curtain: The Muppet shows that weren't
It's time to lower the curtain: The Muppet shows that weren't
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February 9, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Join me, won't you, for a journey to the land of Tinkerdee, the end of sex and violence on television, and Kermit doing King Lear opposite a Coke can potentially voiced by Kelsey Grammer
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no eres mis casa bonita
no eres mis esposa bonita
no eres mis esposa bonita
February 9, 2026 at 1:33 AM
no eres mis casa bonita
no eres mis esposa bonita
no eres mis esposa bonita
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Super Bowl football game: Highest 2 Lowest when Denzel is puttering around his house
Super Bowl halftime show: Highest 2 Lowest when Denzel is riding the subway to Yankee Stadium
Super Bowl halftime show: Highest 2 Lowest when Denzel is riding the subway to Yankee Stadium
February 9, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Super Bowl football game: Highest 2 Lowest when Denzel is puttering around his house
Super Bowl halftime show: Highest 2 Lowest when Denzel is riding the subway to Yankee Stadium
Super Bowl halftime show: Highest 2 Lowest when Denzel is riding the subway to Yankee Stadium
every AI commercial is like "Do you not know how to use computer? What if you used your imagination about how they worked, does that make you feel better? What if we CHARGE you to use your imagination"
February 9, 2026 at 1:01 AM
every AI commercial is like "Do you not know how to use computer? What if you used your imagination about how they worked, does that make you feel better? What if we CHARGE you to use your imagination"
how are you doing a manly Bosch commercial without manly Bosch
February 9, 2026 at 12:48 AM
how are you doing a manly Bosch commercial without manly Bosch
AI authors laughing about their NYT sponcon:
February 8, 2026 at 9:05 PM
AI authors laughing about their NYT sponcon:
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this would be many of you when faced with a HELLRAISER-esque scenario
February 8, 2026 at 3:26 PM
this would be many of you when faced with a HELLRAISER-esque scenario
Much of business can be explained by layers of management drawing aggro
He’s there to tank damage for Bezos. Who can eventually tell shareholders, “sorry fellas, he’s medically stupid, it wasn’t on me”
February 7, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Much of business can be explained by layers of management drawing aggro
summer olympics vs winter olympics
February 7, 2026 at 10:02 PM
summer olympics vs winter olympics