Support Smart, Local Journalism
Make a Small Monthly Donation
Dom Sinacola is a Portland-based writer and editor. He runs a blog about Werner Herzog movies, The Werner Herzblog, and he’s also on Letterboxd.
Also very beautiful: William H. Macy.
Dom Sinacola
Dom Sinacola
The most relatable moments in One Battle After Another, writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson’s 10th feature, are of Leonardo DiCaprio groaning. Wiping his eyes, ugh-ing dramatically, hungover literally but also spiritually—as “Bob Ferguson” (the name taken when he goes into hiding with his daughter), DiCaprio lugs his body around like an overstuffed suitcase. Granted, Bob is pretty […]
September A Big Bold Beautiful Journey: In the yawning aftermath of After Yang, writer/director Kogonada tries again with Colin Farrell, this time welcoming Margot Robbie to another potential wad of corn, giving it a horrific title, and going for the tearjerking jugular. I’m sorry, but it grows harder every year to cheer for the man who […]
A new documentary looks at the sometimes chasmlike gap between what Francis Ford Coppola wants and those desperately trying to give him that.
Fall 2025 is STACKED with films from the likes of Paul Thomas Anderson, Kelly Reichardt, Lynne Ramsey, Chloé Zhao, Kathryn Bigelow, Yorgos Lanthimos, and more!
I want to see a man’s [redacted] maimed by a [redacted]. That is the catharsis I deserve.
What about the other five “illusions?”
When Sincaola said “execrable” we knew it was on.
Chinese writer-director Jia Zhangke is one of cinema’s truly great Wife Guys.
Pavement has always been a band of uneven proportions. Forever on the precipice of the big time, the group never appeared to try hard enough, to want to be understood enough, and their creative output—off-kilter indie rock that sounded both revolutionary and unintentional—was always a little too much. They helped define a decade of independent […]
Sign up for our newsletter for news recaps, updates, and more!
