Jacob Oller

This is the hardest I've ever known someone didn't watch the thing they were writing about

Jennifer Coolidge hits a fleshy video game monster with her car, and that's not even the weirdest moment of A Minecraft Movie. avclub.com/a-minecraft-mo…

A Minecraft Movie is somehow both the most annoyingly generic version of a video game adaptation AND the most "anything goes" adaptation since Mario and Luigi went to Dinohattan avclub.com/a-minecraft-mo…

It's nice that Snow White actually tries some new things (even if they mostly fail)! Rachel Zegler is a movie star. Gal Gadot is terrible. The hard drives that store the dwarfs should be taken out back and beaten with bats, Office Space style avclub.com/snow-white-rev…

O'Dessa is Walk Hard meets Jupiter’s Ascending and my god I wish it was any good avclub.com/odessa-review

In this excerpt from my book CINEMA HER WAY, Karyn Kusama talks about JENNIFER’S BODY, DESTROYER, and JEANNE DIELMAN! avclub.com/cinema-her-way…

Mickey 17 is as shaggy as its furry little alien grubs but another hilarious little alien grub (Robert Pattinson) makes the whole wild, angry mess hang together: avclub.com/mickey-17-revi…

to be fair some of my selections that year were avant-garde

Want to win your Oscars pool? Maybe you'd like to read the "who will win, who should win" selections of a writer that Metacritic once noted "had the worst success rate (but also the greatest failure rate!)" of that year's predictors avclub.com/oscar-predicti…

Back on my Stephen King beat writing about Oz Perkins, The Monkey, and the personal ways we greet death avclub.com/the-monkey-pag…

The Monkey short story is so bleak in so many Stephen King ways (our hero would LOVE to smack his kid around, would LOVE to scream at his wife, would LOVE to fall to pieces) but with a ray of fantastical, heroic hope. The Monkey movie blows up some heads real good. Both are valid

I have been a hater of the completely incoherent governmental politics of superhero movies since minute one, and I am very happy @JacobOller gave me support to interrogate why for @TheAVClub. Mr President, you are a hulk. avclub.com/marvel-cinemat…

Now that it's on Criterion and not just available from rips of a decade-old Italian MGM DVD, I dug into Godard's King Lear for The A.V. Club: avclub.com/cult-of-criter…

Surrealism CAN remind you to care for yourself, your neighbor, your home. It's our Universal Language: avclub.com/universal-lang…

Love Hurts is a very dumb, very thin action-comedy but it sure does have some funny moments avclub.com/love-hurts-rev…

Not a super strong Sundance this year, but still a decent crop of films that I liked! Here are the best of the 43 I got to see: avclub.com/best-films-sun…