Kimber Myers
@kimbermyers.bsky.social
Film critic with bylines in Mashable, Crooked Marquee, the L.A. Times, The Playlist, and Bustle.
“With its varying perspectives, 'Atonement' is an intensely thoughtful, humanist drama that is somehow even more emotionally resonant than one might expect," @kimbermyers.bsky.social writes. buff.ly/DRBEYoj
Review: Atonement — Crooked Marquee
This complex, compassionate drama features a trio of strong performances from Boyd Holbrook, Kenneth Branagh, and Hiam Abbass.
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“With its varying perspectives, 'Atonement' is an intensely thoughtful, humanist drama that is somehow even more emotionally resonant than one might expect," @kimbermyers.bsky.social writes. buff.ly/DRBEYoj
Review: Atonement — Crooked Marquee
This complex, compassionate drama features a trio of strong performances from Boyd Holbrook, Kenneth Branagh, and Hiam Abbass.
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“‘Primetime’ is a darkly hilarious satire that somehow never loses sight of all the horrors it’s depicting,” @kimbermyers.bsky.social writes. buff.ly/8kYm432
Review: Primetime — Crooked Marquee
Robert Pattinson is monstrously funny in Lance Oppenheim’s blackly comic media satire.
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The 64th New York Film Festival has begun, and we’ve got some recommendations, including “Fjord,” “NAZA,” “Making Marie Antoinette,” “Tender Loving Care,” and the restored “The Devils”: buff.ly/J4yRq20
“‘Primetime’ is a darkly hilarious satire that somehow never loses sight of all the horrors it’s depicting,” @kimbermyers.bsky.social writes. buff.ly/8kYm432
Review: Primetime — Crooked Marquee
Robert Pattinson is monstrously funny in Lance Oppenheim’s blackly comic media satire.
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Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
“‘The History of Concrete’ is a marvelous experience, fascinating and funny, strange and strangely moving,” @kimbermyers.bsky.social writes. buff.ly/JPP4pw9
Review: The History of Concrete — Crooked Marquee
John Wilson again mines the mundane for this hilarious documentary.
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“What are its Oscar chances” I don’t know but a good way to enjoy movies is not spending five months treating them like the stock market
None of us can top E.B. White on this argument
Gremliny Nussboo@emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 2w agoI truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel
Our mini-reviews of “Wild Horse Nine,” “Club Kid,” “The Face of Horror,” “The Stunt Driver,” “Stuffed,” and more of his year’s buzziest titles from TIFF. buff.ly/0xSlUHd
“‘The History of Concrete’ is a marvelous experience, fascinating and funny, strange and strangely moving,” @kimbermyers.bsky.social writes. buff.ly/JPP4pw9
‘The Uprising’ “feels like the same tired approach to classic characters where a writer takes a beloved hero and simply makes it dark,” @kimbermyers.bsky.social writes. buff.ly/2S9ojOC
Review: The Uprising — Crooked Marquee
Paul Greengrass brings his shaky-cam style to a 14th-century story that may or may not be about Robin Hood.
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“Stop Making Sense” turns 42 today. Of his performance, David Byrne said: “You see this person in the beginning [of the film] who's kind of angsty, stumbling around .. And then, by the end, he's surrendered to the music and is fairly joyful .. He’s found a kind of community." 🙏🏼 “Slippery People”
‘The Uprising’ “feels like the same tired approach to classic characters where a writer takes a beloved hero and simply makes it dark,” @kimbermyers.bsky.social writes. buff.ly/2S9ojOC
Review: The Uprising — Crooked Marquee
Paul Greengrass brings his shaky-cam style to a 14th-century story that may or may not be about Robin Hood.
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“Onslaught” is “a nasty piece of work that seems content to wreak havoc and create carnage while only fitfully managing to entertain,” @kimbermyers.bsky.social writes. crookedmarquee.com/review-onsla...
Review: Onslaught — Crooked Marquee
Adam Wingard’s grim grindhouse throwback has few pleasures for genre fans.
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It is extremely thrilling to see Coyote vs. ACME holding so well at the box office this weekend after years of cynical reporting basically suggesting the movie never had a chance at making a buck. Particularly looking at the annoying slew of box office "experts" who seem geared towards cynicism
Jesus Christ, famously stingy about giving fish to people
John Fugelsang@johnfugelsang.bsky.social · last mo.
“Onslaught” is “a nasty piece of work that seems content to wreak havoc and create carnage while only fitfully managing to entertain,” @kimbermyers.bsky.social writes. crookedmarquee.com/review-onsla...
https://crookedmarquee.com/review-onslaught/
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My new book "Yippee Ki‐Yay:“Die Hard,” Bruce Willis, and the Reinvention of the Action Movie" is available for pre-order wherever you get your books! bookshop.org/p/books/yipp...
Yippee Ki-Yay: Die Hard," Bruce Willis, and the Reinvention of the Action Movie
A sprightly, incisive, and definitive account of Die Hard--the greatest action movie of all time--and its sequels, combining Hollywood history, behind-the-scenes drama, and criticism, and drawing on e...
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K.C. Clyburn, Author@kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · last mo.AHHH, BLUESKY! DON'T YOU DARE BE SOUR! CLAP FOR YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORS! AND FEEL THE POWER!!! #Booksky It's BUY A BOOK FRIDAY, yes it is! The rules are simple, you see a book by myself or one Bluesky's talented artists, YOU BUY THAT BOOK! Help support us and enrich yourself! 🧵 BELOW, LET'S GO!!!
Ryan Reynolds is the worst leading man in the movies nowadays, and my dude @scotttobias.bsky.social nails what makes him so vexing (h/t @kimbermyers.bsky.social for bring this to my attention). thereveal.film/in-review-on...
The work of New York City native and street poet @7SoulsDeep is nothing if not polarizing. It cleaves its audience into two camps: People who have clapped when their plane landed, and everyone else. We know where we stand. hellgatenyc.com/7soulsdeep-s...
pulled the video so you don't have to go to X we stan a towering queen who does not care for the antics of mediocre men
Valerie Valkyrie@beezygrey.bsky.social · last mo.CAM BRINK TRANS ALLY fxtwitter.com/zavanchy/sta...
Good morning! For @nytimes.com I spoke to the makers of COYOTE VS ACME (and a WB spokesperson!) about the movie's long, tortured journey from its 2019 greenlight to its 2023 near-deletion to its arrival in theaters this week. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/m...
How the Anvil Was Nearly Dropped on ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ (Gift Article)
The live action-animation hybrid comedy fought a real-life studio battle to win its theatrical release.
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“It is said, to date, to have distributed 300 million books and is now in five English-speaking countries after launching in the Sevier County, Tennessee, where she was raised,” @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social continues. “Three hundred million is a lot of books and a lot of kids.”
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · last mo.“… I created the Imagination Library as a tribute to my Daddy,” Dolly once said. “He was the smartest man I have ever known but I know in my heart his inability to read probably kept him from fulfilling all of his dreams. Inspiring kids to love to read became my mission."
The Dolly Parton and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
“‘It Ends’ engages with big ideas that are likely to resonate with anyone who has had moments of feeling out of control and unsure of where the road is taking them,” @kimbermyers.bsky.social writes, “a more realistic fear than the ghosts, demons, and zombies of most horror movies.” buff.ly/QefOL17
Review: It Ends — Crooked Marquee
A remote road goes on forever for the foursome in this philosophical thriller.
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“‘It Ends’ engages with big ideas that are likely to resonate with anyone who has had moments of feeling out of control and unsure of where the road is taking them,” @kimbermyers.bsky.social writes, “a more realistic fear than the ghosts, demons, and zombies of most horror movies.” buff.ly/QefOL17
https://crookedmarquee.com/review-it-ends/
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