‘The Monkey’ Review: Osgood Perkins’ Midnight Movie Bloodbath is Caught Between Gruesome Irony and Flat Melodrama [C]
Death looms like a specter in nearly all of Osgood Perkins’ films. Consider the chilly threat of the beyond in The Blackcoat’s Daughter, the dark... Read More
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‘Captain America: Brave New World’ Review: Marvel Continues to Self-Perpetuate Their Own Impending Irrelevance [D+]
It’s an accepted fact that at this point in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s lifecycle, keeping up with the extended lore and returning characters means slogging... Read More
‘Sonic the Hedgehog 3’ Review: Threequel Outshines Its Predecessors by Introducing a Shadow [B]
It’s funny what a series of competent, agreeable family movies have done for the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. Following a prolonged down period for the... Read More
‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ Review: If Lion Cubs Could Talk [D]
On December 5, 2024, film critic Matt Zoller Seitz published a profile feature for Vulture entitled “Moonlight in the Lion’s Den.” It traces filmmaker Barry... Read More
‘A Complete Unknown’ Review: Chalamet is Great, but Film Succumbs to Familiar Biopic Pitfalls of a Life Collapsed into Montage [C+]
It’s hard to ask for a more routinely workmanlike filmmaker than James Mangold. Whether working in the realm of mental health drama (Girl, Interrupted), big... Read More
The Parrot Isn’t Saying Anything: How the 2024 U.S. Election Has Proven ‘Under the Silver Lake’ to be Right All Along
Election fraud. A migrant crime wave. Immigrants eating pets. FEMA exploiting hurricane survivors. The Democrats controlling the weather. These are just a few of the... Read More
‘Shocker’ at 35: Wes Craven’s Beautifully Bonkers Thriller About an Electric Serial Killer Lives On As an Underrated Gem [Retrospective]
On November 9, 1984, Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street was released to critical and commercial acclaim, praised for how it leveraged the slasher... Read More
‘Smile 2’ Review: Light Up Your Face with Gladness; Parker Finn’s Horror Franchise Sequel is Overly Familiar but Boasts an Impressive Sense of Style
Smile 2, the sequel to 2022’s horror franchise breakout, opens with one of the boldest sequences you’ll find in mainstream cinema this year. We’re re-introduced... Read More
‘Blink Twice’ Review: Zoë Kravitz’s Feminist ‘Get Out’ is Righteously Angry and Frustratingly Derivative
To call Blink Twice an updated, feminist version of Get Out carries a lot of implications all at once—it’s a bit obvious, somewhat reductive, and... Read More
‘It Ends With Us’ Review: Maybe We Should Have Kept Colleen Hoover on BookTok
It was only a matter of time before author du jour Colleen Hoover received the film adaptation treatment of one of her novels. Hoover made... Read More
BAFTA Predictions: Will the Brits Ride Ocean Waves or Be in Love with Shakespeare? 
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‘At the Sea’ Review: Amy Adams Gasps for Air in Film Desperate to Drown Her Under the Weight of Water [C] Berlinale 
‘Take Me Home’ Review: Liz Sargent’s Intimate Caregiving Drama Confronts a System Built to Fail [B-] Berlinale