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Jon Frosch
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Senior Editor, Reviews, at The Hollywood Reporter. Member of @lafilmcritics.bsky.social. Alum @france24.com + International Herald Tribune.
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... in which @thefienprint.bsky.social and @ajhan.bsky.social admit to loving ALL'S FAIR. I kid! A handful of good recs and many more great insights here, as usual.
Critics’ Conversation: Heavyweights (and Horny Puppets) Pull Fall TV Back From the Brink
In a lackluster stretch for the small screen, the few home runs came mostly from established voices like Vince Gilligan ('Pluribus'), Sterlin Harjo ('The Lowdown') and Raphael Bob-Waksberg ('Long Stor...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Never would have guessed I'd have so much fun with a
Ryan Murphy assignment, but my sage THR editor,
@jon-frosch.bsky.social, knows me better than I know myself. BRB, just going to get salmon sperm facial-filler shots.
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Say What?! The 20 Most Jaw-Dropping Lines From ‘All’s Fair,’ Ranked
The first three episodes of Hulu’s pilloried legal soap from Ryan Murphy and Kris Jenner Productions have already served up a bonanza of truly bonkers dialogue (and a truckload of Birkin bags).
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November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Editing this was a truly joyful way to start the week. Thank you, @david-rooney.bsky.social!
Say What?! The 20 Most Jaw-Dropping Lines From ‘All’s Fair,’ Ranked
The first three episodes of Hulu’s pilloried legal soap from Ryan Murphy and Kris Jenner Productions have already served up a bonanza of truly bonkers dialogue (and a truckload of Birkin bags).
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November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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So much fun to be on the Original and Adapted Screenplays committee for the Gothams this year with ace fellow critics @timgrierson.bsky.social @ezwrites.bsky.social @carlosfilm.bsky.social @mcastimovies.bsky.social. Proud of our choices and excited for these films.
Gotham Film Awards Nominations: ‘One Battle After Another’ Leads With a Record Six Nods
'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' scored the second most nominations with four, followed by three-time nominees 'It Was Just an Accident,' 'No Other Choice' and 'My Father's Shadow.'
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October 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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For the first time ever, the Gothams are giving out awards for adapted and original screenplay. Very happy to be on that inaugural committee, alongside @jon-frosch.bsky.social, @mcastimovies.bsky.social, @carlosfilm.bsky.social and @ezwrites.bsky.social. Here are our nominees.
Best Adapted Screenplay nominees for the Gothams: No Other Choice, Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-Mi, Jahye Lee, Don McKellar (NEON) One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson (Warner Bros. Pictures) Pillion, Harry Lighton (A24) Preparation for the Next Life, Martyna Majok (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios) Train Dreams, Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar (Netflix) Best Original Screenplay nominees for the Gothams: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Mary Bronstein (A24) It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi (NEON) The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho (NEON) Sorry, Baby, Eva Victor (A24) Sound of Falling, Louise Peter, Mascha Schilinski (MUBI)
October 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Excited to be recognized alongside my fantastic critic colleagues @david-rooney.bsky.social @thefienprint.bsky.social @ajhan.bsky.social and proud of all the Hollywood Reporter nominees @thr.com!
The Hollywood Reporter Scores Record Number of Noms at National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, Including Best Publication
THR was nominated in 85 categories, including best investigative reporting, best podcast, best critic and print journalist of the year.
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October 28, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Congrats to all! Honored.
October 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Our 2026 Career Achievement Award recipient is Philip Kaufman
Photo of Philip Kaufman wearing a white shirt and looking to the left, standing behind a camera. “Intrepid doesn’t even begin to describe a director who, among his many considerable achievements, gave Indiana Jones his first assignment and inspired the NC-17 rating,” said LAFCA President Robert Abele. “A criminally underappreciated director, Philip Kaufman could never be pigeonholed, from his early days absorbing the independent spirit of homegrown DIY-ers and the European New Wave, to his cool, vivid command of genre in the ’70s, followed by a handful of uncompromising historical epics, including The Right Stuff and The Unbearable Lightness of Being, that belied anybody’s notion that American filmmakers couldn’t be versatile, intelligent and entertaining about big ideas. The L.A. Film Critics Association is immensely proud to be honoring this dyed-in-the-wool iconoclast.”
October 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Yikes yikes yikes yikes
‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ Review: Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie Go on a Generic Road Trip of the Soul in Kogonada’s Cloying Misfire
The 'Columbus' and 'After Yang' helmer directs a Black List screenplay in this film also featuring Lily Rabe, Hamish Linklater, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Kevin Kline.
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September 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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The Hollywood Reporter critics team rounds up 15 favorites from Venice, Telluride and Toronto, including new films from Guillermo del Toro, Kathryn Bigelow, Chloé Zhao, Jim Jarmusch, Laura Poitras and more.
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Best of the Fall Fests: THR’s Critics Picks
A cathartic tearjerker about Shakespeare’s family, Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear threat thriller and a wrenching Gaza docudrama are among THR reviewers’ 15 faves out of Venice, Telluride and Toronto.
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September 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Really liked THE CURRENTS, a lush & hypnotic Argentinian drama about a designer who unravels very stoically after a work trip gone awry. TIFF and NYFF slots should give writer-director Milagros Mumenthaler a much-deserved bump in recognition.

My review:
‘The Currents’ Review: A Woman Who Has Everything Comes Undone in a Lusciously Crafted Argentinian Spellbinder
Writer-director Milagros Mumenthaler's film revolves around a successful young Buenos Aires fashion designer whose world is upended after a work trip gone awry.
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September 9, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Shocker: I liked a movie in which Callum Turner is hot
‘Eternity’ Review: Elizabeth Olsen Navigates a Post-Mortem Love Triangle in Pensive, Charming A24 Comedy
Miles Teller and Callum Turner also star in this glossy, mass-appeal rom-com, which premiered in Toronto before its planned November release.
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September 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Another TIFF review! My Hollywood Reporter debut and already the word “hunk” is in the headline. I cannot be stopped
‘Fuze’ Review: Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Theo James Headline David Mackenzie’s Savvy, Hunk-Filled Heist Thriller
Sam Worthington and Gugu Mbatha-Raw costar in the latest film from the ‘Hell or High Water’ director to premiere in Toronto.
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September 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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TWINLESS deserves so much better than whatever dog-days dump release it's getting. Dylan O'Brien gives one of the year's best, most surprising performances, & the film is twisted, funny & perceptive, w/shades of Almodovar. Super promising for writer/director/costar James Sweeney.
September 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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It's eight years since Kathryn Bigelow's last film & she hasn't missed a beat. A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE is a crackling thriller, precision-tooled, viscerally immersive, very much of a piece with THE HURT LOCKER and ZERO DARK THIRTY. Great stuff. #Venezia2025
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‘A House of Dynamite’ Review: Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson in Kathryn Bigelow’s Precision-Tooled, Viscerally Unsettling Nail-Biter
The Netflix thriller captures from multiple perspectives the White House response to an unattributed missile launch headed for a major U.S. city in the harrowing 20 minutes until projected impact.
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September 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Jim Jarmusch is working in a PATERSON vein in his funny, tender, minor-key triptych FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER, a beautifully realized ensemble piece with not a single forced note of humor or poignancy. One of the #Venezia2025 competition standouts.
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‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Review: Cate Blanchett and Adam Driver in Jim Jarmusch’s Funny, Tender, Astutely Observed Jewel of a Family Triptych
Tom Waits, Indya Moore and Charlotte Rampling are also part of the ensemble in three minor-key stories about adult siblings and their parents, set in the Northeast U.S., Dublin and Paris.
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August 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Not all of us are sports fanatics, but we all love sports movies. So we @thr.com critics ranked and wrote about our faves. Let the Monday-morning quarterbacking begin!
cc @thefienprint.bsky.social @ajhan.bsky.social @david-rooney.bsky.social Leslie Felperin & Jordan Mintzer
The 25 Greatest Sports Movies of All Time, Ranked
From 'Hoop Dreams' to 'Bring It On,' 'Raging Bull' to 'Bull Durham' and beyond, THR's critics pick their all-time champs.
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August 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Anxious times can yield exceptional horror movies and the 21st century has had plenty of both. Here’s 25 bone-chilling favorites that messed with my dreams, ranked. Feel free to respond with your own picks.
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The 25 Best Horror Movies of the 21st Century, Ranked
From razor-edged satires to dark fairy tales, inspired haunted house riffs and nerve-shredding accounts of supernatural possession, the 2000s have been a goldmine for fright freaks.
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July 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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You don't have to love every single thing he's ever said to be excited about the idea of this guy as mayor of NYC.
Opinion | Plenty of Jews Love Zohran Mamdani
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June 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Eva Victor's sharp, touching debut SORRY, BABY is out in theaters today, marking the arrival of an exciting triple threat.

My review out of Sundance back in January:
‘Sorry, Baby’ Review: Eva Victor’s Feature Debut Is a Frank, Funny and Tender Spin on the Female ‘Traumedy’
Victor also wrote and stars — alongside Naomi Ackie and Lucas Hedges — in this Sundance-premiering film about a young New England academic gradually recovering from a sexual assault.
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June 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Happy 50th birthday, JAWS. A few thoughts on my undimmed obsession with Steven Spielberg’s ageless shark shocker. Might have something to do with growing up on Australian beaches in the years before sonar systems & air surveillance changed shark detection.
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‘Jaws’: The Prototype Summer Blockbuster Turns 50, Losing None of Its Bite
Half a century ago, on June 20, 1975, Steven Spielberg’s classic shark thriller hit U.S. theaters and became an instant sensation. A day at the beach was never the same again.
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June 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 10 Best Films of 2025 So Far
Faves from the first half of the year include a bracing take on the New York rom-com, an intimate John Lennon doc and a Steven Soderbergh-helmed ghost story.
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June 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Jonathan Millet's GHOST TRAIL — a riveting thriller about Syrian refugees in France — is out today. Don't miss it. Adam Bessa has the soulful magnetism of a real star, and Tawfeek Barhom gives a chilling supporting turn. My review from last year's Cannes.
‘Ghost Trail’ Review: A Tense, Terrifically Acted Thriller About Syrian Exiles in France
Premiering in Cannes' Critics' Week sidebar, Jonathan Millet's film stars Adam Bessa as a Syrian refugee tasked with tracking down his former torturer.
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May 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Panahi for the Palme! And other exciting picks from Binoche's Cannes jury, including Best Actress for the absolutely amazing Nadia Melliti from Hafsia Herzi's THE LITTLE SISTER. I sang her praises in my review.
‘The Little Sister’ Review: Coming-of-Age Drama About a French Muslim’s Lesbian Awakening Is a Low-Key Stunner
In Hafsia Herzi's Cannes competition entry, newcomer Nadia Melliti plays a teenager struggling to reconcile her religious convictions with her burgeoning sexuality.
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May 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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The @thr.com critics saw some good movies, n'est-ce pas @david-rooney.bsky.social?

Here were the 20 Best of Cannes 2025:
Gay Kink, Godard (Via Linklater) and German Girlhood: THR’s Critics Pick the 20 Best Films of Cannes 2025
The new Spike Lee joint, an inventive Brazilian political thriller and a Scandinavian family drama spiked with humor were among other standouts from the world's pre-eminent film festival.
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May 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM