Wai Chee Dimock

Virtual Enemy at the MIT Museum
“The Enemy,” the MIT Museum's first virtual reality exhibition, had begun. For the next hour, everything I experienced would be designed expressly for me.
Wai Chee DimockJan 8, 2018
- Film
Animating the Ocean
Wai Chee Dimock on the oceans of "Moana" and Jack London.
Wai Chee DimockFeb 3, 2017
- Film
The Queen of the Night Sings Hamlet
Wai Chee Dimock Stephen Frears's "Florence Foster Jenkins."
Wai Chee DimockSep 14, 2016
- Film
Lobster in Purgatory
On the irresolutions of Yorgos Lanthimos's "The Lobster".
Wai Chee DimockJun 18, 2016
- Film
Half-and-Half: Iñárritu Remixes James Fenimore Cooper
"The Revenant" turns a derogatory term into an existential condition, yielding a new visual field.
Wai Chee DimockFeb 16, 2016
- Film
Pixar and the Brain Scientists
"Inside Out" is billed as a "major emotion picture," so it is not surprising that "thought" is pretty much a bad word throughout.
Wai Chee DimockJul 12, 2015
- Film
Books in Space: Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar”
“Interstellar” is bookish to a fault.
Wai Chee DimockDec 25, 2014
- Film
A Boyhood Epic
On Richard Linklater's 'Boyhood'
Wai Chee DimockAug 1, 2014
- Young Adult & Children’s Literature