“Dirty Dancing,” Slate, December 29, 2010 (on Black Swan and camp)
“It’s What She Knows: The Luxe Life,” The New York Times, December 12, 2010 (on Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere)
“Letting His Role Do the Talking,” The New York Times, December 5, 2010 (on Christian Bale in The Fighter)
“Doing Time, a Kiss Is Still a Kiss,” The New York Times, November 28, 2010 (on Glenn Ficarra and John Requa’s I Love You Phillip Morris)
“Viennese Action,” Artforum.com, November 15, 2010 (on the 2010 Viennale)
“When ‘Poison’ Was a Cinematic Antidote,” The New York Times, November 7, 2010 (on Todd Haynes’s Poison)
“Sound of Music,” Artforum.com, November 3, 2010 (on Pedro Costa’s Ne change rien)
“The Gang That Couldn’t Bomb Straight,” The New York Times, October 24, 2010 (on Chris Morris’s Four Lions)
“Another Dimension of Idiocy,” The New York Times, October 10, 2010 (on Jackass 3-D as performance art)
“It’s All About a Dishonest Day’s Work,” The New York Times, October 1, 2010 (on heist movies)
“Unspeakable Desire,” Artforum, September 2010 (on João Pedro Rodrigues)
“It’s Actual Life. No, It’s Drama. No, It’s Both,” The New York Times, August 22, 2010 (on hybrid films)
“Parting Twin Curtains of Repression,” The New York Times, August 1, 2010 (on Lou Ye’s Spring Fever)
“Quality Time,” Artforum.com, July 14, 2010 (on Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio’s Alamar)
“Fleshing Out the Lives of Others,” The New York Times, July 11, 2010 (on anti-biopics)
“Critical Mass,” Artforum.com, May 27, 2010 (on the 2010 Cannes Film Festival)
“Growing Up With Dad, Distilled with Bite,” The New York Times, May 16, 2010 (on Josh and Benny Safdie’s Daddy Longlegs)
“An Eye on America Is Also Under Watch,” The New York Times, May 9, 2010 (on Laura Poitras’s The Oath)
“A Bold Vision, Still Ahead of Its Time,” The New York Times, April 4, 2010 (on R.W. Fassbinder’s World on a Wire)
“Both Ends Burning,” Artforum.com, March 31, 2010 (on The Sun Behind the Clouds and City of Life and Death)
“Restricted but Not Deterred,” The New York Times, March 28, 2010 (on films about North Korea)
“Mortification Man,” The New York Times, March 14, 2010 (on Ben Stiller in Greenberg)
“Up in the Air,” Slate, March 5, 2010 (on the politics of Jason Reitman)
“Beyond Reason,” Artforum.com, February 26, 2010 (on the Forum Expanded section of the 2010 Berlinale)
“Berlin Takes Film Fest, and Fringe, in Stride,” The International Herald Tribune, February 18, 2010 (on the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival)
“Polanski’s Visions of Victimhood,” The New York Times, February 14, 2010 (on Roman Polanski)
“Oscars Try to Navigate Through Babel,” The New York Times, January 31, 2010 (on the Academy Awards’ foreign-language category)
“Gay Identity Refracted in Multiple Voices,” The New York Times, January 24, 2010 (on gay cinema, post gay-liberation)
