Combining two of America’s most beloved pastimes: baseball and failed political assassinations.

I was interested by the idea of this from the brief pitch I’d read a few weeks beforehand, and in execution it was genuinely fascinating! You have these three only-loosely-connected streams of information constantly competing for your attention so that, by design, you’ll never be able to absorb everything the film is. It’s disorienting and bold and demanding of your focus. Or maybe your focus isn’t critical and…

Dating apps are OUT

Responding to a newspaper ad for a modern girl wishing to correspond on cultural subjects anonymously with an intelligent and sympathetic young man is IN

This movie is very heartfelt and the kind of funny that I often forget could’ve existed over eight decades ago. (The music box gag and the running bit of Pirovitch escaping any time Matuschek asked for an opinion just got funnier with every go.) It shows the eternal desire to be…