@JacobOller

Film Editor @TheAVClub // Video Game Movie Expert // Southerner in Chicago

 Chicago, IL
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Joined February 2011
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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-movie…

Spoiler Space: A Minecraft Movie hides its best, weirdest joke in a mid-credit scene

The most surreal aspect of the deeply strange A Minecraft Movie involves a pair of comedy icons, vehicular assault, and divorce.

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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-movie…

A Minecraft Movie jams surrealism and clichés into the crafting grid

A mix of blatant formula and complete oddity, A Minecraft Movie is a failed recipe with plenty of seasoning.

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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-movie…

A Minecraft Movie jams surrealism and clichés into the crafting grid

A mix of blatant formula and complete oddity, A Minecraft Movie is a failed recipe with plenty of seasoning.

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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-review

Rachel Zegler is the crown jewel of a tarnished Snow White

Snow White modernizes its fairy tale around its winning star, but the classic elements flop—from the dwarfs to the Evil Queen.

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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-review

Rachel Zegler is the crown jewel of a tarnished Snow White

Snow White modernizes its fairy tale around its winning star, but the classic elements flop—from the dwarfs to the Evil Queen.

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

Audacious sci-fi musical O’Dessa proves audacity isn’t everything

A song can save the world in the ridiculous sci-fi musical O'Dessa. Just not these songs, and definitely not this world.

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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-vi…

Karyn Kusama talks about that visceral Jennifer’s Body vomit scene in exclusive Cinema Her Way book...

Karyn Kusama talks about that visceral Jennifer’s Body vomit scene in exclusive Cinema Her Way book excerpt

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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-review

Wacky, angry, shaggy sci-fi Mickey 17 works its underclass to the clone

Bong Joon Ho follows up his Best Picture win by combining his pet themes into the messy, hilarious sci-fi Mickey 17.

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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-review

Wacky, angry, shaggy sci-fi Mickey 17 works its underclass to the clone

Bong Joon Ho follows up his Best Picture win by combining his pet themes into the messy, hilarious sci-fi Mickey 17.

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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-predictions…

Who will win and who should win at the 2025 Oscars

The A.V. Club runs down the categories for its Oscar 2025 predictions, balancing cynicism and passion in equal measure.

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to be fair some of my selections that year were avant-garde
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Back on my Stephen King beat writing about Oz Perkins, The Monkey, and the personal ways we greet death avclub.com/the-monkey-page-t…

Oz Perkins returns Stephen King to the cornball grindhouse with The Monkey

Stephen King's grim short story The Monkey becomes Oz Perkins' gonzo midnighter where death is just another punch line.

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

Oz Perkins returns Stephen King to the cornball grindhouse with The Monkey

Stephen King's grim short story The Monkey becomes Oz Perkins' gonzo midnighter where death is just another punch line.

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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
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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-cinematic-…

The MCU's simplified Presidents reflect its simplified heroes

Marvel doesn’t know what to do with presidents, because Marvel doesn’t know what to do with power.

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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-criterion…

Cult Of Criterion: King Lear

Of course Jean-Luc Godard was never going to make a straightforward King Lear. His preposterous take dismantles both Shakespeare and cinema.

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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-criterion…

Cult Of Criterion: King Lear

Of course Jean-Luc Godard was never going to make a straightforward King Lear. His preposterous take dismantles both Shakespeare and cinema.

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

A warm Universal Language persists through this comedy's bland, absurd tundra

Winnipeg and Iran merge in Matthew Rankin's oddball comedy Universal Language, which finds heartfelt moments amid the dry jokes.

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

Everything but the thought counts in the endearingly cheesy Love Hurts

The Valentine's Day-themed action romp Love Hurts has its heart in the wrong place, but it makes up for it with lots of silliness.

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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-sundan…

The best films of Sundance 2025

The best films of Sundance 2025 include Train Dreams; Sorry, Baby; GEN_; and The Things You Kill, among others.

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