Sophia Ciminello

‘Nickel Boys’ Review: RaMell Ross’ Audacious Colson Whitehead Adaptation is a New American Masterpiece | Telluride

Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Nickel Boys,” begins with an arresting line: “Even in death, the boys were trouble.”… Read More

September 2, 2024

Interview: Jon Hamm on What it Means to Be “Minnesota Nice” and Dismantling the American Western in ‘Fargo’

It’s difficult to think of American iconography without recalling one of Jon Hamm’s signature projects, Mad Men. Over seven seasons,… Read More

August 20, 2024

‘Alien: Romulus’ Review: Fede Álvarez’s ‘Alien’ Sequel is a Sometimes Thrilling, Yet Synthetic Greatest Hits Album

Forty-five years ago, Ridley Scott’s Alien completely changed the game for science fiction filmmaking. It combined aspects of the B-movies… Read More

August 14, 2024

‘Industry’ Season 3 Review:  It’s Time to Buy Stock in HBO’s Sexy, Live Wire Finance Drama

When HBO's Industry premiered in late 2020, it felt like Gen Z’s Succession with a little Skins in the game.… Read More

August 2, 2024

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Invention and Deconstruction of the Femme Fatale in ‘Double Indemnity’ (1944) and ‘Chinatown’ (1974) [Retrospective]

 I. My Sister/My Daughter When I reflect on the films that truly shaped my taste, it’s impossible not to think… Read More

June 24, 2024

Interview: Julianne Nicholson and Zoe Ziegler on Annie Baker’s Magical Mother-Daughter Directorial Debut, ‘Janet Planet’

Summer movies often bring to mind images from big, loud action blockbusters or zippy and bright family films. But what… Read More

June 21, 2024

‘Back to Black’ Review: You Know That This Amy Winehouse Biopic is No Good

It’s hard to forget the first time you hear a voice like Amy Winehouse's, especially as a teenage girl in… Read More

April 15, 2024

‘Drive-Away Dolls’ Review: Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan Hit the Road in Ethan Coen’s Raunchy and Rowdy B-Movie

When two acclaimed artists in a partnership split creatively, their first solo projects are often indicative of their individual input… Read More

February 21, 2024

‘Lisa Frankenstein’ Review: Chivalry is Undead in Zelda Williams and Diablo Cody’s ‘80s-Set Coming-of-Age Horror Comedy

It’s a thought that has plagued anyone who has ever been interested in a man: “I can fix him.” Whether… Read More

February 7, 2024

Interview: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor on Collaborating with Ava DuVernay, Meeting the Moment, and Playing a Journalistic Indiana Jones

Early in Ava DuVernay’s remarkable new film Origin, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson (a transcendent Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) listens to a… Read More

January 12, 2024

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