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Jason Adams, Lead Film Critic: Jason writes about movies, thinks about movies, movies movies movies. He lives in New York City because he saw the Bette Midler Lily Tomlin vehicle Big Business at a formative age. Besides Pajiba his work appears regularly at Mashable, AwardsWatch, The Film Experience, and on his long-suffering personal site My New Plaid Pants. He’s a member of the Critics Choice Association and GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics. |
- Review: Sebastian Stan Presses the New Flesh In the Fantastic 'A Different Man'
- Pick Yourself the Pink Punk Dystopia of 'La Pietà'
- Gay Sex, Red Pills, and Video Games Are the Sweet Stuff of 'Eat the Night'
- Review: Mike Leigh And Marianne Jean-Baptiste Deliver Hard-Hitting 'Hard Truths'
- Barry Keoghan & Franz Rogowski Make Magic In Andrea Arnold's 'Bird'
- The 10 Hottest Queerest Scenes of 2024
- Review: 'The Brutalist' Proves Size Does Matter
- Pajiba 10 For Your Consideration: Josh O'Connor
- Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon Sing Us A Song Of Armageddon in 'The End'
- Review: 'Speak No Evil' 2024 Is Toxic Masculinity 101
- 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' Is a Straight-Up Goofball Paradise
- Robert Eggers' 'Nosferatu' Is a Dark and Delicious Feast
- Daniel Craig Gives Love a 'Queer' Name In Luca Guadagnino's New Classic
- Review: 'Twisters' Needs To Throw Some More Caution To Its Wind
- Saoirse Ronan Fights Off The Bombs In Steve McQueen's WWII Drama 'Blitz'
- Review: Masturbating Zombies & Cate Blanchett Storm The G7 Summit In 'Rumours'
- Review: The Haunting 'Nickel Boys' Turns Us All Into Ghosts
- 'Terrifier 3' and Horror's Shift from Elevated to Extreme
- Review: 'Oddity' Is An Entire Cursed Object Shoppe's Worth Of Fright
- Review: Samara Weaving Kicks Unholy Ass In 'Azrael'
- 'Challengers' Is Pleasure Incarnate: Sexy, Funny, Throbbing
- It Takes All 'Kinds of Kindness' In Yorgos Lanthimos' Latest Delicious Grotesquierie Of The Human Condition
- Review: Sweet Sticky 'Strange Darling' Is Rom-Com For Psychopaths
- Review: 'Alien: Romulus' Falls Into A Black Hole Of Fan Service
- Review: 'Steppenwolf' Tells The 'John Wick' Movies To Eff Off
- Review: 'Self Driver' Drags Our Dystopian Gig Economy To Hell & Back
- Review: 'Bookworm' Is Family Film Done Right With A Never Better Elijah Wood
- Review: 'Haze' Is A Sexy Slow-Burn Psychological Trip With Teeth
- Review: Home Is Where The Surreal Vampire Puppet Horror Is In 'The Vourdalak'
- Review: Carrie Coon & Shea Whigham Make Neo-Noir Magic In 'Lake George'
- Review: A Black Family's Home Invasion Twists 'The Knife' Into Unbearable Tension
- Review: Michael Cera & Michael Angarano Road-Trip Their Frayed Friendship Out In The Lovely Little 'Sacramento'
- Review: 'Griffin In Summer' Is Brutally Funny Theater Kid Coming-Of-Age Brilliance
- Review: 'The Weekend' Is 'Meet The Parents' In Hell
- Review: The Smashing 'Godzilla Minus One' Is Here To Make You ... Cry?
- The Oscar-Nominated 'Robot Dreams' Is A Magical, Melancholy Animated Masterpiece
- Review: The Slasher Is Reborn In The Terrifying 'In A Violent Nature'
- Can 'Furiosa' Live Up to the Perfection of 'Mad Max: Fury Road'?
- Review: 'I Saw the TV Glow' Is A Great And Terrible Fantasia
- Review: Alex Garland's 'Civil War' Is A Scary Minefield of Apolitical Provocations
- Review: Dirty Beautiful Josh O'Connor Digs Up The Past In 'La Chimera'
- Review: 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' Is a Cold Day In Hail
- Manifest Destiny Made Flesh: 'Ravenous' Turns 25
- Weirdo Mia Wasikowska Is Back And Weirder Than Ever In The Wellness Satire 'Club Zero'
- Review: Kristen Stewart's 'Love Lies Bleeding' Is Gonna Kick Your Ass And Make You Beg For More
- Review: 'Drive-Away Dolls' Is Lesbian 'Raising Arizona' Lite
- Review: 'Bottoms' Is Tops!
- Review: 'Out of Darkness' Unleashes Prehistoric Hell
- Review: 'Veni Vidi Vici' Is A Sociopath's Paradise
- Review: Put 'Argylle' Out With The Kitty Litter
- Review: Get Ghosted By Steven Soderbergh's 'Presence'
- Review: 'Killers of the Flower Moon' Is Top Tier Scorsese, Again
- Review: Dan Levy's 'Good Grief' Is A Lotta Grief, Only Some Of It Good
- The 11 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of 2023
- George Clooney Embraces Full Cornball With His Depression-Era Sports Flick 'The Boys In The Boat'
- Review: Bradley Cooper's Vapid 'Maestro' Is an Empty, Craven Affront
- Review: 'The Zone of Interest' Is The Most Important Movie Of The Year
- Review: Julia Roberts Wants To 'Leave The World Behind' With Mixed Results
- Pajiba 10 FYC: Sad Boy King Paul Mescal
- Review: Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore Unravel True Crime With 'May December'
- Review: 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes' Is The Best Film In The Franchise
- Review: 'Saltburn' Is An Acidic Class Satire Of Righteous Queer Fury
- David Fincher's 'The Killer' Is An Unblinking Sociopathic Master-Class Of Fun
- Review: 'Priscilla' Puts 'Elvis' On Blast
- Review: 'Suitable Flesh' Is Here To Penetrate Yours With Lovecraftian Lunacy
- Review: Emma Stone Is The Lightning That Animates 'Poor Things'
- Review: 'All Of Us Strangers' Is An Astonishment
- Netflix's 'El Conde' Is a Magnificently Black-Hearted Little Wonder of a Thing
- With 'A Haunting in Venice' Kenneth Branagh Finally Gets His Hercules Poirot Right
- 'The Eight Mountains' Is Manufactured for Maximum Middle-Aged Man Tears
- Lizzy Caplan's 'Cobweb' May Be the Best Halloween Movie of the Year
- Review: 'Meg 2: The Trench' Is Meggier, Messier
- Review: The Heat Generated In Ira Sachs' 'Passages' Will Scorch Your Soul
- Review: Nicolas Cage Burns It Down, Again, In 'Sympathy For the Devil'
- Review: 'Barbie' Becomes Death, Destroyer of Worlds
- Review: Christian Petzold's Emotional Apocalypse Will Set Your Summer 'Afire'
- 'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny' Rewinds the Clock For One More Grand Adventure
- Review: 'Asteroid City' Is One of Wes Anderson's Very Best Movies
- Laura Galán Snatches The Scream Queen Crown Via 'One Night With Adela"
- Ari Aster's 'Beau is Afraid' Is Truly Madly Deeply Not for Everybody, Thank God
- Review: 'Clueless' Goes To Hell In 'Perpetrator'
- Nicole Holofcener Tackles a Writer's Worst Nightmare in 'You Hurt My Feelings'
- And The Waters Receded: 'Deep Impact' Turns 25
- Review: Is 'Guy Ritchie's The Covenant' Based on a True Story?
- Review: It's Weird that Toni Collette's 'Mafia Mamma' Got Made in 2023
- Review: Steven Yeun And Ali Wong Give Us A 'Beef' Well Done
- The New 'Children Of The Corn' Is an A-maize-ing Garbage Fire
- Review: Ghostface Takes Manhattan In Uneven But Fun 'Scream VI'
- Review: 'Champions' Sure Is A Sports Movie Starring Woody Harrelson
- Review: The Mustache Unmakes The Man In The Unsettlingly Sparse 'The Integrity Of Joseph Chambers'
- Review: Carter Smith's 'Swallowed' Digs Deep Into The Dark Nooks Of Queer-Horror
- 'Magic Mike's Last Dance' Refuses to Drop Its Damn Pants
- Is the Found-Footage Horror 'The Outwaters' a Good and Proper Brain-Break?
- Review: Jonathan Majors Is A Muscle-Bound Powerhouse In 'Magazine Dreams'
- Review: 'Skinamarink' Is Gonna Scare You Right Back To The Dark Ages
- Review: 'Rotting In The Sun' Is Breathlessly Funny and Mean-Spirited
- Review: Alexander Skarsgrd And Mia Goth Are Unnaturally Born Killers In 'Infinity Pool'
- Review: Toxic Masculinity For Tweens Too 'Close' For Comfort
- 'Searching' Sequel 'Missing' Finds Our Moment Amid Tech Mayhem
- Adam Driver And Greta Gerwig Face Down The Apocalypse In Noah Baumbach's Incomparable 'White Noise'
- Review: Ashes, Ashes, The Tower of 'Babylon' Falls Down
- Review: Just Let Me Look At Olivia Colman, 'Empire of Light'!
- 'The Whale' Is the Most Miserable Entry in Darren Aronofsky's Self-Martyrdom Canon
- Review: Tilda Swinton in Joanna Hogg's Perfect Ghost Story 'The Eternal Daughter'
- Review: Mythic WTF Weirdness Abounds In The Surreal Freak-Out 'A Wounded Fawn'
- Review: Spielberg Wrestles Spielberg in 'The Fabelmans'
- Review: 'Devotion' One, 'Top Gun' Nothing
- Jeremy Pope and Gabrielle Union Wow In Elegance Britton's 'The Inspection'
- Review: Cate Blanchett Is Maestra Of Us All In The Career-Defining 'Tár'
- Timothee Chalamet and Taylor Russell Find Love In a Hopeless Place In 'Bones And All'
- Review: 'Beast' Is A Tenacious Blast of Old-School Savagery
- Review: 'Bros' Is A Good Top In Search Of A Decent Bottom
- Review: 'Goodnight Mommy' (2022) Starring Naomi Watts on Prime Video
- Review: Franois Ozon's Goofy 'Peter Von Kant' Is Solid Food For Us Fassbinder Nerds
- George Miller's 'Three Thousand Years Of Longing' Is a Weird Little Miracle
- The Family Superhero Flick 'Secret Headquarters' Is Surprisingly Old-Fashioned Sweet Fun
- Review: Gen Z Takes A Beating From The Whodunit Hands of A24's 'Bodies Bodies Bodies'
- Review: Alice Krige's Incandescent Face Lights Up The Folk Horror Woods With 'She Will'
- Review: Lesley Manville Sparkles As A Cinderella Senior In 'Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris'
- Review: 'Flux Gourmet' Turns an Extended Fart Joke into an Empathetic Treatise on Loneliness
- Review: 'PEN15' Star Anna Konkle Puts The Boom In Baby Boom With The Dark Comedy 'The Drop'
- Review: Irish Horror Gains Another Unsettling Classic with 'You Are Not My Mother'
- Review: Penelope Cruz And Antonio Banderas Devour The Art-House In The Frantically Funny 'Official Competition'
- Review: How Hungry We Are For Horror, And Here's 'Family Dinner' To Fill Us Up
- Review: 'Jurassic World: Dominion' Is Like a Raptor Claw Across the Belly
- Review: 'Fire Island''s Big Heart And Speedos Bulge With Rom-Com Magic
- Review: Maika Monroe And Karl Glusman Make For Gorgeous Things To Watch In 'Watcher'
- Review: Terence Davies' 'Benediction' Brings Us The Life, Loves, And Losses Of The Gay Poet Siegfried Sassoon
- Review: Samara Weaving and Eugenio Derbez Give Us A Surprise Winner With 'The Valet'
- Review: 'Downton Abbey' Might Have Found 'A New Era' But It's Blessedly Just More Of The Same Ol' Frothy Business
- Review: 'Hatching' Is A Finnish Fairy Tale Of Most Fowl Play
- Cry Valhalla: 'The Northman' Is Here To Whisper-Scream Us Tales Of Gore
- Netflix's Latest Horror 'Choose or Die' Is 'The Oregon Trail' For Sadists
- Sandra Bullock & Channing Tatum Coast Their Myriad Movie-Star Charms Across 'The Lost City'
- Review: A Terrific Sandra Oh Elevates 'Umma' To Almost 'Elevated Horror'
- Review: Ti West's 'X' Marks The Spot, Sweet And Sticky And Red, Oh So Red
- 'Pink Flamingos' At 50: John Waters' Cult Classic Celebrates Half A Century Of Unparalleled Filth
- Review: 'The Adam Project' Is All Sound And Atoms, Signifying Nothing
- F.W. Murnau's Silent Horror Classic 'Nosferatu' Turns 100
- Review: Franz Rogowski Puts The Great In The Gay Prison Drama 'Great Freedom'
- Review: Sebastian Stan and Daisy Edgar-Jones Put The 'Meat' In 'Meet Cute' With The Horror Rom-Com 'Fresh'
- Review: Werewolf Chiller 'The Cursed' Trades Its Soul For Fool's Gold
- Channing Tatum's a Good Boy With His Just-Shaggy-Enough Star Vehicle 'Dog'
- The Y.A. Adaptation 'The Sky Is Everywhere' Is A Lot Of Flower, Not Enough Power
- Review: Paul Thomas Anderson's Messy And Chaotic 'Licorice Pizza' Is The Stuff Of Life Itself
- Roland Emmerich's 'Moonfall' Is Soft-Cheese Gibberish Stew
- Review: Finnish Oscar Submission 'Compartment No 6' Takes Us On A Trip We Won't Soon Forget
- Review: 'You Won't Be Alone' Is A Fine Folk-Horror 'Orlando' Made For Poetry Majors And Gore-Hounds Alike
- Review: Pop The Champagne! Bill Nighy's Giving The Performance Of His Life in 'Living'
- Review: 'Brian and Charles' Is A Lo-Fi Franken-Comedy Bursting With Goofball Charm
- Review: Asghar Farhadi's Got Another Devastating Fable Of Human Failings For Us With His Latest Greatness, 'A Hero'
- Review: I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Fresh 'Scream'
- Review: The Ol' Blind-Girl-in-Jeopardy Genre Gets New Juice With The Atmospheric & Terrific 'See For Me'
- Review: Simon Rex Kicks Us Deep In The Crotch of Texas With Sean Baker's Fearless And Funny 'Red Rocket'
- Review: Paolo Sorrentino Scores An Almighty Goal With 'The Hand Of God'
- Review: Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story" Gives Me Something To Sing About
- Review: Every Moment Matters In Lin-Manuel Miranda's Triumphant "Tick, Tick... Boom!"
- Review: The Graceful 'Mothering Sunday' Gives Romance to the Ghosts
- 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' Review: Careless Sugar Slop
- Review: Kenneth Branagh's Autobiographical "Belfast" Is His Best Movie in Years
- Review: The Always-Welcome Barbara Hershey Helps Geriatric Horror 'The Manor' Feel Like a '70s TV Movie Flashback
- Review: 'The Many Saints of Newark' Reminds What a Good Show 'The Sopranos' Was
- Review: Jake Gyllenhaal is on Fire, Again, in 'The Guilty'
- Review: 'Dear Evan Hansen' Suffers Not Just from Ben Platt, But From Its Repulsive Story
- Review: The Vampire Tale 'Kicking Blood' Offers Fresh Life to Old Addiction Metaphors
- Review: Pablo Larraín's "Ema" Is An Aggressive Slap Of Cinema, Meant To Put Some Color In Our Cheeks
- Review: 'Dating & New York' Suffocates Both In Fairy Dust
- Review: Can 'No Man Of God' Make The Case For More Ted Bundy Movies?
- Rebecca Hall Lights Up 'The Night House,' Two Stories Tall With Scares
- Review: Here Lay Neill Blomkamp's 'Demonic,' D.O.A. Dumpster Fire
- Review: 'Don't Breathe 2' Had Me Gagging, But Not In The Good Way
- Review: 'Old' Is M. Night Shyamalan At His Best And Worst
- Nature's Cunning Ways: How 'Luca' & 'Call Me By Your Name' Are Healing Our Weakest Spots
- Review: 'Luca' Is Pixar's Best Film in Years
- Review: Patrick Fugit Anchors The Often Suffocatingly Sad Vampire Tale 'My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To'
- Review: 'Censor' Scores An R (For Rad) Rating
- Review: George A. Romero's Lost Film 'The Amusement Park' Is Here To Terrorize Us To Death, And After
- Review: "Plan B" Should Be Your Plan A For This Weekend
- Review: Toni Collette And Her 'Dream Horse' Deliver A Feel-Good Filly Tale
- Spoiler Review: 'Wild Mountain Thyme' Makes Us Wonder Are The Straights Okay?
- Review: Sebastian Stan In 'Monday' Makes Us Manic For The Fun Days
- Review: The Psychedelic Freak-Out Folk-Horror of Ben Wheatley's 'In the Earth'
- HBO's 'Exterminate All The Brutes' Looks Head-On At History's Scars
- Review: Gay Coming-of-Age Drama 'Moffie' Is An Epitaph, One Among Many, From The Tragedy Of Apartheid
- Review: 'Mapplethorpe' Bigger, Longer, and Director's Cut
- Review: 'Godzilla vs Kong' Made My Inner Child Feel Ten Stories Tall
- Review: Lions, Tigers, and Laughs Oh My -- 'Coming 2 America' Takes Us Back 2 Africa
- Review: Like A Mallet To The Forehead, These Are The 'Tom And Jerry' Of Our Times
- Review: Colin Firth & Stanley Tucci Light Up The Sky in 'Supernova'
- Review: 'Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar' Is A Goofy Pastel Paradise
- Review: 'Prisoners of the Ghostland' Makes Nicolas Cage (And Us) a Prisoner of His Schtick
- Review: 'A Glitch in the Matrix' Ponders The Really Real, Like Whoa
- Pajiba 10 For Your Consideration: Jonathan Majors
- In Defense Of Harper, The Apparent Monster of 'Happiest Season'
- Review: Netflix's 'Mank' Is The Shadow of a Shadow of Another's Person's Dream
- Review: 'Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square' May Be More Than The World Deserves