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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 7h

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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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 14d

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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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 22d

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...

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

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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 26d

That’s right mutt-benny

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Sean Fennessey @seanfennessey.bsky.social · Jul 18

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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Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ Is a Mirror. Like What You See?

The Big Picture · Episode

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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thanks for taking the time for all that, I did read it. I will say that only one of these three movies that feels like art to me— which is open and risky enough to "give myself over to" as you put it, and which is dealing with reality as I recognize it, albeit in a funny, stylized way— is TRAP.

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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · Jul 11

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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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · Jul 11

OK, I'll bite: what are SUPERMAN's terms? And what are TRAP's terms? Which parts of these reviews (newrepublic.com/article/1844...); www.theringer.com/2024/02/29/d... do you disagree with? You tagged me, soI'm asking with genuine interest.

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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · Jun 20

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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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · Jun 19

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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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · Jun 12

fantastic piece. Parts of Materialists bothered me in ways that reminded me of one of my least favourite movies ever (Up in the Air).

Sam Bodrojan @helmetgirl.bsky.social · Jun 12

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

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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · May 26

On THE REHEARSAL season 2, for @thewalrus.ca

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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · May 4

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.

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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · Apr 29

For @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy on THE STUDIO, which nibbles the hand that feeds

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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · Apr 3

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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Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · Apr 3

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...

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.

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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · Mar 28

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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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · Feb 15

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.

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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · Jan 17

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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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · Jan 7

i wish

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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · Jan 7

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...

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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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · Jan 2

Never at length but it’s really good, I agree.

Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · Dec 30

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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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · Dec 30

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

Dominic Lash @domlash.bsky.social · Nov 9

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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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · Dec 29

Chuck Palahniuk getting paid by the word

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