Working, learning, and starting something new later in life, including the technology gap that shuts capable people out.
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
Judy (2019) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Renee Zellweger won Best Actress for a technically accomplished transformation inside a film that exists to contain it, covering Judy Garland's five-week London run five months before her death.
1990sSeptember 10, 2026
The Straight Story (1999) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. David Lynch made a G-rated film about a seventy-three-year-old man driving a lawnmower three hundred miles to see his dying brother, and it is the least ironic…
2020sSeptember 10, 2026
Nomadland (2020) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Frances McDormand lives in a van among real people playing themselves, and the film is at its best whenever she is listening. What it will not do is name…
2000sSeptember 10, 2026
Sideways (2004) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two middle-aged men drive north for a week of wine tasting before one of them gets married, and both of them are worse people than the film initially lets…
1930sSeptember 10, 2026
The Natural (1984) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Levinson took a bleak 1952 novel about a man who takes the bribe and inverted its ending completely, which is either the film's great betrayal or the reason…
1940sSeptember 10, 2026
The Notebook (2004) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The young romance is a competent, conventional and occasionally irritating class melodrama. The framing story, an old man reading to a woman with dementia who does not know…
1960sSeptember 10, 2026
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) rates 1 out of 10 on the rewatch scale, and that is generous. Three hundred and eighty-seven million dollars, a loss of a hundred and thirty-four million, and trash from the first…
1990sSeptember 10, 2026
Out to Sea (1997) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Lemmon and Matthau as dance hosts on a cruise ship, in the last decent film the pair made together. Slight, warm, and carried entirely by forty years…
AgingSeptember 7, 2026
Petrow started this book as a list of what his parents were doing wrong. Then they died while he was writing it, and the whole thing changed, the tone, the point, everything. By the end, he's writing instructions to himself…
AgingAugust 31, 2026
I have interviewed a great many people past retirement for books. Almost all of them apologized for not being interesting enough. They were wrong every single time.
1990sJune 6, 2026
Guillermo del Toro reroutes the vampire myth through a clockwork device in his startling 1993 debut. The fascination with antique machinery.
1980sJune 6, 2026
The film looks extraordinary. The Hunger earns its 6.5 the way a fashion shoot earns a magazine cover.
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