“Citizen Welles as Myth in the Making,” The New York Times, November 22, 2009 (on Orson Welles on screen)
“Taking a Man, then Removing His Myth,” The New York Times, November 15, 2009 (on Alexander Sokurov’s dictator series)
“Here, There, Everywhere,” Artforum.com, November 12, 2009 (on the 2009 Viennale)
“‘Fight Club’ Fight Goes On,” The New York Times, November 8, 2009 (on the cult of David Fincher’s Fight Club)
“Eternal Role: A-List Character Actor,” The New York Times, November 1, 2009 (on Matt Damon in The Informant)
“The Real Life of Snowflakes and Swans,” The New York Times, October 25, 2009 (on Frederick Wiseman’s La Danse)
“Looking at an Inmate, Seeing an Artist,” The New York Times, October 4, 2009 (on Nicolas Winding Refn’s Bronson)
“Finding Rhythms Within Rhythms in Parisians’ Lives,” The New York Times, September 6, 2009 (on Claire Denis’s 35 Shots of Rum)
“Trash Humpers,” Cinema Scope, Fall 2011
“Men at Work: Finding Humor in Missteps,” The New York Times, August 30, 2009 (on Mike Judge and labor in Hollywood movies)
“Death Lives a Fourth Time to Ply His Trade,” The New York Times, August 23, 2009 (on the Final Destination series)
“Quentin Tarantino,” Slate, August 20, 2009 (on Quentin Tarantino’s post-Jackie Brown career)
“‘Inglourious’ Actor Tastes the Glory,” The New York Times, August 16, 2009 (on Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds)
“Sex on the Desert,” Slate, July 14, 2009 (on Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point)
“On the Offensive,” Slate, July 9, 2009 (on Sacha Baron Cohen, Bruno, and gay stereotypes)
“Class Consciousness,” Artforum.com, July 2, 2009 (on the 2009 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar)
“Something Changed,” Artforum.com, May 19, 2009 (on a Jarvis Cocker gallery residency in Paris)
“A German Wave, Focused on Today,” The New York Times, May 10, 2009 (on Christian Petzold and the Berlin School)
“In Familial Bric-a-Brac, Finding Himself,” The New York Times, May 3, 2009 (on Olivier Assayas’s Summer Hours)
“The Insect Woman: Learning to Crawl,” DVD essay, The Criterion Collection, May 2009
“A Director Content to Wander On,” The New York Times, April 26, 2009 (on Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control)
“Independently Intimate Directors,” The New York Times, April 19, 2009 (on Bradley Rust Gray and So Yong Kim)
“Negative Thinking,” Artforum.com, April 8, 2009 (on Erased James Franco at the Museum of Modern Art)
“Andy Warhol’s screen-test factory,” The Los Angeles Times, April 5, 2009
“History Through an Unblinking Lens,” The New York Times, March 8, 2009 (on Steve McQueen’s Hunger)
“Strangers in Japan’s Neon Wonderland,” The New York Times, March 1, 2009 (on film depictions of Tokyo)
“Thinkers in Transit, Philosophy in Motion,” The New York Times, February 22, 2009 (on Astra Taylor’s Examined Life)
“Multinational Forces at the Berlin Film Festival,” The International Herald Tribune, February 14, 2009 (on the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival)
“Naked Truth on a Movie Screen and in the Aisles,” The New York Times, January 25, 2009 (on Brillante Mendoza’s Serbis)
“Examining Race and a Future Beyond It,” The New York Times, January 25, 2009, (on Barry Jenkins’s Medicine for Melancholy)
“Then as Now, the Terrors of the Routine,” The New York Times, January 18, 2009 (on Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman)
“Remembrance of Liverpool Past,” The New York Times, January 11, 2009 (on Terence Davies’s Of Time and the City)
“Screenwriting Drafts of History,” The New York Times, January 4, 2009 (on political biopics)
