Read It Backwards
Reviews, Writing, and Words from Myle Yan Tay.

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Sep
23
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Putting the Teenage in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
3 min read
Sep
04
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

Ray Nayler weaves together a trio of stories in this tale of twists, tentacles, and Turing tests.
4 min read
Aug
27
The Great Man Theory by Teddy Wayne

The Great Man Theory by Teddy Wayne

Teddy Wayne's fifth novel is a time capsule of American anxiety, that neatly bypasses the troubles that afflict most topical work.
3 min read
Aug
19
The Last Voyage of the Demeter

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

This is one seafaring movie that should never have left port.
3 min read
Aug
15
Barbie

Barbie

Gerwig trades in emotional specificity for a hilarious generality.
4 min read
Aug
04
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

Christopher Nolan injects new life (and death) into the biopic.
4 min read
Aug
02
Asteroid City

Asteroid City

Wes Anderson takes us to the studio, the theater, the outskirts of a nuclear test site in his multimedia follow-up to "The French Dispatch."
4 min read
Jul
26
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

One day, my written adulation of Tom Cruise will be used as evidence in my public flogging. But that day is not today.
4 min read
Jul
05
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

It's been four decades since Steven Spielberg and George Lucas introduced the world to Indiana Jones, America's first fictional fascist
3 min read
Jun
22
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

It almost makes you miss when the robots were racist. Almost.
2 min read