Tom Joudrey
@tomjoudrey.bsky.social
Writer. Journalist. Culture + Film critic.🏳️🌈🎬
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I grew up on an apple orchard in rural Ohio, and most of the people who came to pick apples were lovely. Some weren’t.
Naturally, I wrote about the ones who weren’t.
slate.com/life/2025/09...
Naturally, I wrote about the ones who weren’t.
slate.com/life/2025/09...
I Grew Up on an Apple Orchard. Oh, the Horrors I’ve Seen During You-Pick Season.
Oh, the horrors I've seen.
slate.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I grew up on an apple orchard in rural Ohio, and most of the people who came to pick apples were lovely. Some weren’t.
Naturally, I wrote about the ones who weren’t.
slate.com/life/2025/09...
Naturally, I wrote about the ones who weren’t.
slate.com/life/2025/09...
For the BBC, I wrote about the divisive legacy of Requiem for a Dream, 25 years on.
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
'Slumming in a vision of hell': Why Requiem for a Dream is still so divisive, 25 years after its release
Darren Aronofsky's radical drug-addiction drama was highly acclaimed and angrily slated when it came out in 2000. Today, this Hubert Selby Jr adaptation is no less contentious.
www.bbc.com
June 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
For the BBC, I wrote about the divisive legacy of Requiem for a Dream, 25 years on.
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
🏊♂️ the 4️⃣0️⃣ ft 🍀
May 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
🏊♂️ the 4️⃣0️⃣ ft 🍀
81° today 🥵 and new ✂️
April 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
81° today 🥵 and new ✂️
30 years ago, a film adaptation of a bestselling Stephen King novel was released, and it featured what was then a genuinely shocking twist: being a bitch isn’t a crime.
I wrote about DOLORES CLAIBORNE for its 30th anniversary. ⬇️
I wrote about DOLORES CLAIBORNE for its 30th anniversary. ⬇️
March 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
30 years ago, a film adaptation of a bestselling Stephen King novel was released, and it featured what was then a genuinely shocking twist: being a bitch isn’t a crime.
I wrote about DOLORES CLAIBORNE for its 30th anniversary. ⬇️
I wrote about DOLORES CLAIBORNE for its 30th anniversary. ⬇️
Me, Kate, and Bette.
March 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Me, Kate, and Bette.
Democracy dies in darkness.
We just didn’t know Jeff Bezos would be the one turning off the f-ing lights.
We just didn’t know Jeff Bezos would be the one turning off the f-ing lights.
February 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Democracy dies in darkness.
We just didn’t know Jeff Bezos would be the one turning off the f-ing lights.
We just didn’t know Jeff Bezos would be the one turning off the f-ing lights.
Can this hellish month be the nail in the coffin of the idea that the billionaire class will “save” us—that, against all evidence, arsonists make the best firefighters?
February 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Can this hellish month be the nail in the coffin of the idea that the billionaire class will “save” us—that, against all evidence, arsonists make the best firefighters?
Seinfeld was wrong. THE ENGLISH PATIENT is a masterpiece.
And you betcha it deserved that Oscar over Fargo.
www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/11/o...
And you betcha it deserved that Oscar over Fargo.
www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/11/o...
In defense of ‘The English Patient,’ a masterpiece of anti-imperialism - The Boston Globe
First hailed, later mocked, the Oscar-winning epic deserves credit for subverting its own genre.
www.bostonglobe.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Seinfeld was wrong. THE ENGLISH PATIENT is a masterpiece.
And you betcha it deserved that Oscar over Fargo.
www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/11/o...
And you betcha it deserved that Oscar over Fargo.
www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/11/o...
Sam and I hit it off
February 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Sam and I hit it off
This weekend’s sequence of events
February 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This weekend’s sequence of events
Just arrived from The Other Place—looking forward to checking this 🆕 place out!
January 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Just arrived from The Other Place—looking forward to checking this 🆕 place out!