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THE WASHINGTON POST

  • Five roommates. One fridge. Much drama., March 2023
i-D

Family Style

  • At a Distance (Profile of Katarina Zhu), April 2026
Slant Magazine 

  • ‘Mad Bills to Pay’ Review: A Visceral Portrait of a Dominican Family’s Life in the Bronx, April 2026
  • ‘Mermaid’ Review: A Shaggy Creature Feature About the Male Loneliness Epidemic, April 2026
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CHICAGO READER

Selected Film Criticism:
  • In Eddington, the real virus is what corrodes our common ground, July 2025, Film Review, Print 
  • Materialists autopsies the rom-com genre, June 2025, Film Review, Print
  • MaXXXine is an electrifying return to form, July 2024, Film Review, Print
  • In Chicago's “top five,” High Fidelity is a chart-topper, September 2023, Film Review, Print
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Selected Book Reviews:
  • Writing as an act, not an artifact, October 2023, Q&A Profile
  • Born inside a vulnerable brutalism,  June 2023, Book Review

Selected Reporting:
  • This year’s Doc10 Film Festival comes with a call to action, April 2026, Feature
  • The 61st Chicago International Film Festival meets the moment, October 2025, Feature, Print
  • A parade of memories, August 2024, Feature, Print (Front Page)Sundance finds new horizons in Chicago, June 2024, Feature, Print
  • A new home for experimental lit, September 2023, Profile, Print
  • Forging new architectures, May 2023, Art Review
  • Reupholstered and reimagined, May 2023, Art Review
  • Specters of material, May 2023, Art Review
  • At a loss for words, May 2023, Theater Review, Print
  • Promise the Moon, May 2023, Theater Review, Print
  • Dinner and A Petit Show, May 2023, Feature, Print
  • 'Inform, Energize, and Engage,' April 2023, Feature
  • Tounge Tied, April 2023, Art Review, Print
  • Temporary in Nature, April 2023, Art Review, Print
  • Celebrating a decade of critically acclaimed film, March 2023, Feature, Print
  • Cycles of Grief, March 2023, Art Review, Print
  • An art gallery for the living room, March 2023, Art Review
  • Right To Be Forgotten questions how much the Internet should remember, February 2023, Theater Review
  • FIRSTHAND: Life After Prison illuminates the challenges of reentry for five Chicagoans, February 2023, Feature
  • Boozy tiki drinks, Cantonese cuisine, and Elvis Live!,  February 2023, Feature, Print
  • One of a kind, November 2022, Profile, Print
  • WorldScene Film Festival proves that incarcerated people are More Than a Uniform, September 2022, Feature
  • Festival au Cinéma to usher in the ‘modern golden age’ of film, August 2023, Feature
  • Ghost of Drive-Ins Past?, June 2022, News, Print

SCREENANARCHY
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Reviews:
  • SONG SUNG BLUE Review: Loving Impersonation Misses the Real Thing, December 2025
  • ETERNITY Review: Shockingly Charming Afterlife Love Story That Shouldn't Work, But Does, November 2025
  • THE RED SPECTACLES Review: Mamoru Oshii's Absurdist Take on Authoritarianism Gets a Second Life, November 2025
  • NOW YOU SEE ME: NOW YOU DON'T Review: The Magic's Gone in This Third Act, November 2025
  • CAMP Review: Avalon Fast's Dreamy, Spellbound-by-Grief Sophomore Feature, October 2025
  • URCHIN Review: Harris Dickinson's Unflinching Debut Shows How Addiction Devours the Vulnerable, October 2025
Playback:
  • Playback: Park Chan-wook, Pushed to the Limit, from JOINT SECURITY AREA to NO OTHER CHOICE, December 2025
  • Playback: Rian Johnson, Twists and Turns, from BRICK to WAKE UP DEAD MAN, December 2025
  • Playback: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Civic Tremors, from NEIGHBORING SOUNDS to THE SECRET AGENT, November 2025
  • Playback: Lee Sang-il, Ruptures and Reckonings, from CHONG to KOKUHO, November 2025
  • Playback: Guillermo del Toro, Monstrous Beauty from CRONOS to FRANKENSTEIN, November 2025
  • Playback: Lynne Ramsay, Emotional Ruptures from RATCATCHER to DIE MY LOVE, November 2025
  • Playback: Yorgos Lanthimos, Disorder and Discomfort, from KINETTA to BUGONIA, October 2025
  • Playback: Kelly Reichardt's Small Gestures, from RIVER OF GRASS to THE MASTERMIND, October 2025
  • Playback: Jafar Panahi, Cinema Under Pressure, from THE WHITE BALLOON to IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, October 2025
  • Playback: Bill Condon, Spectacle and Secrets from GODS AND MONSTERS to KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, October 2025
NUMERO PERIODICAL

  • “Heartache Millionaire": The Enduring Melody of Country Girl Kay, August 2023, Print
HEAVY FEATHER REVIEW

  • 'Frenzy of material, frenzy of discharge!': Review of Zoe Darsee’s Bell Logic, April 2023, Heavy Feather Review
  • On Joke Architecture in Elise Houcek's Tractatus, March 2023, Heavy Feather Review
SIBYL GALLERY

  • In the Garden, We Unearth Ourselves: On Erica Westenberger’s “a murmur at foredawn,” November 2023, Print
OTHER ARTICLES

  • Book Review: Power On, March 2022, FNewsmagazine
  • The Rust Belt Dispatch, November 2021, FNewsmagazine
  • Book Review: Glyph: Graphic Poetry = Trans. Sensory, December 2021, FNewsmagazine
  • On Hannah Weiner, April 2019, The Operating System
GIDDY

  • Robots on the Silver Screen are Sentient, Sexy and Scary as Hell, May 2023
  • Different Levels of Arousal: Spontaneous and Responsive Desire, November 2022
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