Jeffrey Overstreet
Good Letters
Throwing the First Stone
Early in director John Curran’s film Stone, parole officer Jack Mabry (Robert DeNiro) sits behind his desk and listens to…
Winter’s Bone: A More Human Hero
When was the last time you saw a big-screen hero kill, gut, and cook a squirrel? Be prepared for that…
Revealing The Secret of Kells, Part 2
Part One of my Conversation with film critic Steven Greydanus about the film The Secret of Kells was published in…
Revealing The Secret of Kells, Part 1
Have you ever seen The Book of Kells? I mean, really seen it with your own eyes? I’m not sure…
Jarmusch 101
One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don’t know what’s going to happen next. Do you?…
Journal
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+ “A World Equal to Our Hopes”
+ “Being Charlie Kaufman”
+ “Worth Something” (June 2009)
+ “Neil Gaiman’s Girls, Part 1” (March 2009)
+ Neil Gaimans’s Girls, Part 2” (March 2009)
+ “Blood, Sweat, and Tears in Munyurangabo” (June 2009)
+ “Learning to Fly With Karl Frederickson” (July 2009)
+ “What Lies Beneath Lorna’s Silence” (August 2009)
+ “Séraphine: Standing Ajar” (September 2009)
+ “The Inglourious Dilemma, Volume One” (October 2009)
+ “The Inglourious Dilemma, Volume Two” (October 2009)
+ “Why the Wild Things Are” (November 2009)
+ “More Nightmares Before Christmas“ (December 2009)
+ “Dumping Out the Toybox” (December 2009)
+ “Strongest Impressions: Memorable Movies of 2009”—Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 (January 2010)
+ “Jarmusch 102: The Limits of Control” (April 2010)
+ “For the Love of Lost Dogs” (May 2010)
+ “Stalking the Maker of Stalker, Part 1” (May 2010)
+ “Stalking the Maker of Stalker, Part 2” (May 2010)
+ “Inception, Part 1: Mind Over What Matters” (July 2010)
+ “Inception, Part 2: The Long Road Home” (July 2010)
+ “A Week (of Movies) Can Change a Life” (August 2010)
+ “Inception, Part 1: Mind Over What Matters” (July 2010)
+ “Inception, Part 2: The Long Road Home” (July 2010)
+ “The Actor in Question” (September 2010)
+ “Maladjusted” (March 2011)
+ “Jane Eyre and the Beast” (March 2011)
+ “The Hobbit on Steroids” (2012)
+ “Learning to Read a Dance (in 3D!)“ (February 2012)
+ “All of It Was Music—Pete Horner’s World of Sound, Part 2” (March 2012)
+ “First Position and the Competition Crucible” (June 2012)
+ “Moonrise Kingdom and the Divine Symphony” (July 2012)
+ “Why I Abandoned Compliance” (September 2012)
+ “Holy Motors’ Motor Skills” (November 2012)
+ “A Tale of Two Rivers” (October 2012)
+ “Wrestling the Master” (October 2012)
+ “The Boy Who Believed in Airplanes” (January 2013)