Free Beacon Sonny Bunch

Sonny Bunch is culture editor at the Bulwark and a contributing columnist to the Washington Post. A cohost of the Sub-Beacon, he was formerly executive editor of, and film critic for, the Washington Free Beacon.


The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Movie Review.

‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ Review

Another trip through Middle Earth

The Place Beyond the Pines, Dallas Buyers Club, and the Incredible Now review

The Meaning of Masculinity

The Place Beyond the Pines, The Spectacular Now, and Dallas Buyers Club on what it means to be a man

The Hunger Games Catching Fire Movie Review by Sonny Bunch

‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Review

Second verse, same as the first

‘Dear Mr. Watterson’ Review

Joel Allen Schroeder’s mash note to Calvin and Hobbes

‘Thor: The Dark World’ Review

Too little comedy, too much talking

‘Ender’s Game’ Review

Adaptation trades fan service for coherent storytelling

‘The Counselor’ Review

Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy stare into the abyss

Review: ‘12 Years a Slave’

Intensity reigns in Oscar frontrunner

Captain Phillips, Tom Hanks, Movie Review

‘Captain Phillips’ Review

Tense docudrama tells story of survival at sea