Andy Crump

Contributing Writer

Bostonian culture journalist Andy Crump covers the movies, beer, music, and being a dad for way too many outlets, perhaps even yours: Paste Magazine, The Playlist, Mic, The Week, Hop Culture, and Inverse, plus others. You can follow him on Twitter and find his collected writing at his personal blog. He is composed of roughly 65 percent craft beer.

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Opinion

Petite Maman makes the arthouse film accessible to everyone

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Analysis

Is Daniel Radcliffe trying to make us hate him?

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Analysis

First Cow is a necessary portrait of platonic male affection

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Feature

Portrait Of A Lady On Fire is about truly being seen by another

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Opinion

All good things must end, even The Good Place

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Analysis

The best horror film of 2019 is secretly about toxic masculinity

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Analysis

Mister America is a mockumentary that feels unsettlingly real

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Analysis

The Day Shall Come and the myth of the black nationalist terrorist

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Feature

Paolo Sorrentino's Loro is the perfect film for our lying times

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Analysis

What Ad Astra reveals about Brad Pitt's relationship with his dad

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Opinion

The cruelty of indifference

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Analysis

Nightmare Cinema shows off the true range of the horror genre

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Analysis

Godzilla: King of the Monsters is an unlikely climate change movie

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Analysis

Chris Pine and a banner year for male nudity

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Analysis

How Dan Stevens got weird

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Analysis

Robert Redford's last role is a dazzling film with a simple message: Do what makes you happy

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Opinion

The empty rage of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 11/9

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Analysis

Let the Corpses Tan is an exhausting movie. That's what makes it great.

Director Spike Lee talks to John David Washington, who stars as Detective Ron Stallworth BlacKkKlansman

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Analysis

Only Spike Lee could have made BlacKkKlansman

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Analysis

In Damsel, it's the men who are in distress

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Analysis

How Ocean's 8 succeeded where Ghostbusters went wrong

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Analysis

The world-burning of Michael B. Jordan

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Analysis

Why Iron Man was the most pivotal movie of the last decade

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Analysis

Andy Crump

Petite Maman makes the arthouse film accessible to everyone

Is Daniel Radcliffe trying to make us hate him?

First Cow is a necessary portrait of platonic male affection

Portrait Of A Lady On Fire is about truly being seen by another

All good things must end, even The Good Place

The best horror film of 2019 is secretly about toxic masculinity

Mister America is a mockumentary that feels unsettlingly real

The Day Shall Come and the myth of the black nationalist terrorist

Paolo Sorrentino's Loro is the perfect film for our lying times

What Ad Astra reveals about Brad Pitt's relationship with his dad

The cruelty of indifference

Nightmare Cinema shows off the true range of the horror genre

Godzilla: King of the Monsters is an unlikely climate change movie

Chris Pine and a banner year for male nudity

How Dan Stevens got weird

Robert Redford's last role is a dazzling film with a simple message: Do what makes you happy

The empty rage of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 11/9

Let the Corpses Tan is an exhausting movie. That's what makes it great.

Only Spike Lee could have made BlacKkKlansman

In Damsel, it's the men who are in distress

How Ocean's 8 succeeded where Ghostbusters went wrong

The world-burning of Michael B. Jordan

Why Iron Man was the most pivotal movie of the last decade

How Wes Anderson sneaks stop-motion animation into every film he makes