“A Director Continues His Quest,” The New York Times, December 30, 2012 (on Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master)
“Grace Notes, Far From Hollywood,” The New York Times, December 30, 2012 (on 2012’s overlooked films)
“What’s Up DOX?” Artforum.com, December 29, 2012 (on the 2012 CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival)
“Pasolini’s Legacy: A Sprawl of Brutality,” The New York Times, December 27, 2012 (on the Museum of Modern Art’s Pier Paolo Pasolini retrospective)
“Past Is Present Yet Irretrievable,” The New York Times, December 23, 2012 (on Miguel Gomes’s Tabu)
“Summoning Halcyon Days of Failed Ideals,” The New York Times, December 9, 2012 (on Christian Petzold’s Barbara)
“Rome If You Want To,” Artforum.com, December 3, 2012 (on the 2012 Rome Film Festival)
“Gold Standard,” Artforum.com, November 19, 2012 (on the 2012 Viennale)
“A Farewell to Celluloid With a Tribute,” The New York Times, October 12, 2012 (on Leos Carax’s Holy Motors)
“Dreams of Utopia, Dreams of Solitude,” The New York Times, October 7, 2012 (on Ben Rivers’s Two Years at Sea)
“Time Has Been Kind to ‘Heaven’s Gate,’” The New York Times, September 23, 2012 (on Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate)
“A Star Swerves a Bit; He’s Fine With That,” The New York Times, September 5, 2012 (on Joaquin Phoenix in The Master)
“The Merger of Academia and Art House,” The New York Times, September 2, 2012 (on Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s Leviathan and Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab)
“The World Behind the Tinted Window,” The New York Times, August 5, 2012 (on David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis)
“Weekend: The Space Between Two People,” DVD essay, The Criterion Collection, August 2012
‘Chris Marker, Pioneer of the Essay Film, Dies at 91,” The New York Times, July 31, 2012
“The Rake’s Progress: A Midcareer Leap for McConaughey,” The New York Times, July 8, 2012 (on Matthew McConaughey in Killer Joe and Magic Mike)
“RIP ‘Promises,’ It Was Nice Knowing You,” The New York Times, June 10, 2012 (on Vincent Gallo’s Promises Written in Water)
“Holy Motors,” Cinema Scope, Summer 2012
“Under the Influence,” Artforum, Summer 2012 (on Antonio Reis and Margarida Cordeiro)
“Elephant in the Room,” Artforum.com, May 30, 2012 (on the 2012 Cannes Film Festival)
“They’ll Always Have Cannes,” The International Herald Tribune, May 16, 2012 (on the 2012 Cannes Film Festival)
“Literary Influences, Personal Pathologies,” The New York Times, May 13, 2012 (on Alex Ross Perry’s The Color Wheel)
“Giving Chase to Young Love on the Run,” The New York Times, May 13, 2012 (on Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom)
“Comic Guerrilla Tries Sticking With the Script,” The New York Times, May 6, 2012 (on Sacha Baron Cohen and The Dictator)
“A Winding Trip Reverberates in Cinema,” The New York Times, April 29, 2012 (on Jacques Rivette’s Celine and Julie Go Boating)
“Clear and Present,” Artforum.com, April 15, 2012 (on Robert Bresson’s The Devil, Probably)
“Three Stooges, Two Farrellys? Soitainly” The New York Times, April 8, 2012 (on the Farrelly Brothers and the history of The Three Stooges)
“Birds Do It, Bees Do It (Fill Screens),” The New York Times, April 1, 2012 (on animals on film)
“Sleepwalking in Fantasy World Like This One,” The New York Times, March 18, 2012 (on Anthology Film Archives’ Sara Driver retrospective)
“Post-Traumatic Filmmaking in Japan,” The New York Times, March 18, 2012 (on post-Fukushima films)
“Born of 1,000 Influences, an Original Look at Love,” The New York Times, March 4, 2012 (on Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Attenberg)
“A Japanese Director’s Path to Revolution,” The International Herald Tribune, February 29, 2012 (on Masao Adachi, Philippe Grandrieux, and Eric Baudelaire)
“A Cinematic Sorceress of the Self,” The New York Times, February 19, 2012 (on Anthology Film Archives’ Nina Menkes retrospective)
“At Berlinale, Something for Everyone,” The International Herald Tribune, February 17, 2012 (on the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival)
“Eye of the Tiger,” Artforum.com, February 11, 2012 (on the 2012 Rotterdam International Film Festival)
“Don’t-Miss Movies You Probably Missed,” The New York Times, January 1, 2012 (on 2011’s overlooked films)
