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About
Paul is a self-described cinephile who couldn’t stop talking—and writing—about films. Inspired by the biting sarcasm of Pauline Kael and levelheaded worldview of Roger Ebert, Paul’s love for film criticism nonetheless got its jumpstart upon reading Peter Travers and Richard Roeper’s accessible, reader-friendly reviews. A self-styled critic who swears by the works of Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Kubrick, Paul also moonlights as ghostwriter and editor for a few memoirs. He currently resides in the Philippines.
My Posts
Movie Review: The Invite (2026)
It’s one thing to hear your upstairs neighbors having better sex than you. It’s another to invite them downstairs for ...
Movie Review: Supergirl (2026)
There are bad movies you resent because they never had a pulse, and there are disappointing movies you keep trying ...
Movie Review: Obsession (2026)
Cinema keeps circling back to a familiar male fantasy, probably because men keep finding new ways to pretend they invented ...
‘Disclosure Day’ (2026) Review
“History has no reset keys,” Noah Scanlon (Colin Firth) warns at one point in Disclosure Day. He says it to ...
‘Backrooms’ (2026) Review
One of the first things I thought while watching Backrooms had very little to do with horror, internet folklore, or ...
‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ (2026) Review
It is a strange thing to sit before a Star Wars movie and feel the galaxy getting smaller. Not visually, ...
‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ (2026) Review
Twenty years is a strange amount of time for a sequel (unless you’re Top Gun: Maverick, in which case you ...
Movie Review: Michael (2026)
There’s a moment about five seconds into Michael when the artist’s familiar “hee-hee” blares and the Michael Jackson Estate logo ...
Movie Review: Project Hail Mary (2026)
If you’ve seen Gravity, Interstellar, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and The Martian, you’ve seen Project Hail Mary. It’s that blatant ...
Movie Review: No Other Choice (2025)
There's a particular cruelty in doing everything right and still end up losing. You work hard, you climb the ladder, ...
Movie Review: One Battle After Another (2025)
Paul Thomas Anderson has spent the better part of three decades burrowing into the American soul—charting its boom-and-bust appetites, its ...
Movie Review: The Naked Gun (2025)
The Naked Gun is stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. It’s a film so dedicated to tripping over its own shoelaces that ...
Movie Review: Materialists (2025)
There’s an easy pitch to Celine Song’s latest film Materialists: imagine a contemporary New York screwball romance, part Working Girl ...
Movie Review: Superman (2025)
Throughout every onscreen incarnation of the Man of Steel, there’s a rhythm we’ve come to expect. Superman discovers his powers ...
Movie Review: Drop (2025)
Dating apps and wireless file sharing were supposed to make life easier. Instead, they’ve become perfect fuel for modern tech ...
