Jacob Oller
@jacoboller.bsky.social
Film Editor at @avclub.com
Video Game Movie Expert
Southerner in Chicago
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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It has been a great year for movies and it sounds like it's getting better.
sounding the "one of the best American movies of the year" alarm because Train Dreams is on Netflix today www.avclub.com/train-dreams...
Train Dreams persist through changing times in ethereal, awestruck drama
Train Dreams is a thoroughly engrossing period piece of dreamy details, quietly told and expertly performed.
www.avclub.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
It has been a great year for movies and it sounds like it's getting better.
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I encourage you to shut everything off and watch this gorgeous movie.
It’s so achingly beautiful and has no business being on Netflix.
Same director as Sing Sing.
It’s so achingly beautiful and has no business being on Netflix.
Same director as Sing Sing.
sounding the "one of the best American movies of the year" alarm because Train Dreams is on Netflix today www.avclub.com/train-dreams...
Train Dreams persist through changing times in ethereal, awestruck drama
Train Dreams is a thoroughly engrossing period piece of dreamy details, quietly told and expertly performed.
www.avclub.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I encourage you to shut everything off and watch this gorgeous movie.
It’s so achingly beautiful and has no business being on Netflix.
Same director as Sing Sing.
It’s so achingly beautiful and has no business being on Netflix.
Same director as Sing Sing.
entering the train dreams wars
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
entering the train dreams wars
I should've had faith: Wake Up Dead Man is a welcome step forward for the Knives Out movies, thanks in part to a brilliant Josh O’Connor. Wrote about it www.avclub.com/wake-up-dead...
Miraculously, Wake Up Dead Man is another vital Benoit Blanc whodunit
Rian Johnson takes Knives Out to church with Wake Up Dead Man, looking for answers in the midst of a charged and charming congregation.
www.avclub.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I should've had faith: Wake Up Dead Man is a welcome step forward for the Knives Out movies, thanks in part to a brilliant Josh O’Connor. Wrote about it www.avclub.com/wake-up-dead...
Wait wait wait they called it Zootropolis outside the US? Like Disney knew the rest of the world wouldn’t buy that it was a utopia right from the start?
ZOOTROPOLIS 2 improves on its predecessor by essentially remaking it… crazy they won’t let that fox and bunny hook up tho
Zootropolis 2 is a fun and witty sequel that’s better than the original
A thoughtful reframing of the Disney original’s metaphor for racism – with new character Gary De’Snake stealing the show
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Wait wait wait they called it Zootropolis outside the US? Like Disney knew the rest of the world wouldn’t buy that it was a utopia right from the start?
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Oh hey look, it's my first piece for the AV Club!
The HD-2D remakes of Dragon Quest might modernize these ancient RPGs, but could anything recreate the experience of playing them on the NES? www.avclub.com/dragon-quest...
A quest for relevance: Dragon Quest’s remakes search for the impact it had in the ‘80s
The HD-2D remakes of Dragon Quest might modernize these ancient RPGs, but could anything recreate the experience of playing Dragon Warrior on the NES?
www.avclub.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Oh hey look, it's my first piece for the AV Club!
this one was born for sweater weather
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
this one was born for sweater weather
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"i like torture. torture is photogenic." what a legend
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
"i like torture. torture is photogenic." what a legend
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Can’t stop watching this guy get Silent Movie Slapsticked to death and then still making a play
keep pushin'
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Can’t stop watching this guy get Silent Movie Slapsticked to death and then still making a play
Sunday hits hard for the whole household
November 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Sunday hits hard for the whole household
Whodunit freaks have a bounty of riches this year with the new Knives Out AND The Seance of Blake Manor
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Whodunit freaks have a bounty of riches this year with the new Knives Out AND The Seance of Blake Manor
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Today is the LAST DAY to come by booth 3850 and grab a copy of The Time We Have or A Land Once Magic!!
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Today is the LAST DAY to come by booth 3850 and grab a copy of The Time We Have or A Land Once Magic!!
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sounding the "one of the best American movies of the year" alarm because Train Dreams is on Netflix today www.avclub.com/train-dreams...
Train Dreams persist through changing times in ethereal, awestruck drama
Train Dreams is a thoroughly engrossing period piece of dreamy details, quietly told and expertly performed.
www.avclub.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
sounding the "one of the best American movies of the year" alarm because Train Dreams is on Netflix today www.avclub.com/train-dreams...
You think I’m not gonna get worked up by a bunch of Chicago ladies yelling at ICE??
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
You think I’m not gonna get worked up by a bunch of Chicago ladies yelling at ICE??
So cool they gave him a twin brother in A Better Tomorrow II just there could be more of him!!
chow yun fat in A BETTER TOMORROW is the coolest a dude has ever looked on film
November 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
So cool they gave him a twin brother in A Better Tomorrow II just there could be more of him!!
if you have the inclination to read RFK’s sexts may I instead suggest going to your favorite blog and clicking on every ad until your computer explodes
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
if you have the inclination to read RFK’s sexts may I instead suggest going to your favorite blog and clicking on every ad until your computer explodes
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film criticism may be dying, but The A.V. Club let me write about Bazin’s ontology of the image, and that’s not for nothing
The closer Richard Linklater gets to remaking Breathless, the further he strays from Jean-Luc Godard
Nouvelle Vague betrays Godard, yet finds something all its own
Nouvelle Vague never becomes Breathless or finds the birth of the French New Wave. It's too deep in Richard Linklater's precise reality.
www.avclub.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
film criticism may be dying, but The A.V. Club let me write about Bazin’s ontology of the image, and that’s not for nothing
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A great piece
wrote a little "state of Paramount" piece because they just released a movie where someone Luigis the head of a Paramount-like entity www.avclub.com/the-running-...
It's pretty damn ironic that Paramount is behind The Running Man
The anti-monopoly message of The Running Man, aimed at a blacklist-happy Network, makes it hard not to see its own studio as its villain.
www.avclub.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
A great piece
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starting to dive into screeners in earnest this weekend, so what are films you love that I should make sure to check out?
My faves so far this year (yes some are fest movies that won't end up coming out in 2025):
My faves so far this year (yes some are fest movies that won't end up coming out in 2025):
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
starting to dive into screeners in earnest this weekend, so what are films you love that I should make sure to check out?
My faves so far this year (yes some are fest movies that won't end up coming out in 2025):
My faves so far this year (yes some are fest movies that won't end up coming out in 2025):
What Jacob and @davelevitan.bsky.social built with basically just sweat, expertise, and righteous indignation is so impressive, and I hate to see this
Some news: I was let go as EIC of Splinter as it's getting downsized and rolled into Jezebel. I'll still write there a couple times a week as Editor at Large.
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
What Jacob and @davelevitan.bsky.social built with basically just sweat, expertise, and righteous indignation is so impressive, and I hate to see this
wrote a little "state of Paramount" piece because they just released a movie where someone Luigis the head of a Paramount-like entity www.avclub.com/the-running-...
It's pretty damn ironic that Paramount is behind The Running Man
The anti-monopoly message of The Running Man, aimed at a blacklist-happy Network, makes it hard not to see its own studio as its villain.
www.avclub.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
wrote a little "state of Paramount" piece because they just released a movie where someone Luigis the head of a Paramount-like entity www.avclub.com/the-running-...