The End Run

Critical Focus

  • Critical Focus
  • Jeremy Smith
  • 9 Min Read

The Tragedy of Images

Guns, Hollywood, and the mystique of violence
  • Critical Focus
  • Mike D’Angelo
  • 7 Min Read

How Not to Break Into Writing About Film

First, build yourself a time machine
  • Critical Focus
  • Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
  • 8 Min Read

Myths of Gender and Screen Culture: Part 5

The Myth of Equality
  • Critical Focus
  • Mark Freado, Jr.
  • 9 Min Read

Abel Ferrara’s New York

From the gutter to the stars, a filmmaker stays true to his roots
  • Critical Focus
  • Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
  • 8 Min Read

Myths of Gender and Screen Culture: Part 4

The Myth of Collaboration II
  • Critical Focus
  • Jeremy Smith
  • 5 Min Read

How I Write About Film

A series about film criticism: Jeremy Smith (Birth Movies Death) on finding the dialogue, Béla Tarr, and...
  • Critical Focus
  • Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
  • 8 Min Read

Myths of Gender and Screen Culture: Part 3

The Myth of Collaboration
  • Critical Focus
  • Tirhakah Love
  • 14 Min Read

Visualizing Black Love

Love comes in all colors — but the darkest ones are the hardest to see
  • Critical Focus
  • Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
  • 8 Min Read

Myths of Gender and Screen Culture: Part 2

The Myth of the F-word
  • Critical Focus
  • Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
  • 7 Min Read

Myths of Gender and Screen Culture: Part 1

The myth of gender as a genre
  • Critical Focus
  • Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
  • 8 Min Read

Myths of Gender and Screen Culture: An Introduction

What does it mean to be an exception to the rule?