Make it a Double Feature: ‘Plainclothes’ and ‘A Nice Indian Boy’
While Russell Tovey was making the press rounds for Plainclothes, in an interview with IndieWire, he commented on the legacy of the HBO series Looking... Read More
Reviews
‘The Housemaid’ Review: Going From Booktok to Big Screen Saps Thriller of Sexiness and Fun [D]
There was a time when mid-budget, mid-grade thrillers kept movie theaters in business, before the multiplexes were taken over by an uneven mix of big... Read More
‘Fallout’ Season Two Review: Bring Back My Ghouls [A-]
Back in April, the new season of an acclaimed television show based on a popular video game series released its second batch of episodes for... Read More
‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Review: Feliz Na’vi Dads [B+]
Three years ago, we left the Sully family at a devastating low point. In an attempt to protect his family, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) brought... Read More
Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture – ‘Basic Instinct 2’ and ‘The Departed’ (2006)
“By the way, Stone left five minutes before the movie began and people in the theater began throwing things at the screen during a particularly... Read More
‘Ella McCay’ Review: James L. Brooks Aims to Mine a Nostalgic Relic but Comes Up With Something Mildly Dated [B-]
Very quickly into its runtime, Ella McCay establishes itself as a fantasy. After the narrator (Julie Kavner) introduces herself with “I’m the narrator” (there’s no... Read More
‘Marty Supreme’ Review: It’s One Paddle After Another For Timothée Chalamet in Josh Safdie’s Instant New York Classic [A-]
It’s 1952 in New York City, and Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet) is stuck on the Lower East Side, fitting a customer for shoes. Being promoted... Read More
‘Stranger Things 5 – Volume 1’ TV Review: I Said Upside Down You’re Turning Me [A]
It’s hard to believe it was almost 10 years ago that we first saw Will Byers kidnapped from a lonely road in Hawkins, Indiana and... Read More
‘Wake Up Dead Man’ Review: Rian Johnson’s Latest Puzzlebox Takes Benoit Blanc to Church on an Unholy Whodunit [A-]
The latest whodunit from writer-director Rian Johnson, Wake Up Dead Man, starts with a confession; not one of guilt or sin, but of absolute truth. Written... Read More
‘The Secret Agent’ Review: Kleber Mendonça Filho Returns with a Timely Tale of Brazilian Corruption and Persecution [A-]
One year after over-performing at the Oscars with the sleeper hit I’m Still Here, Brazil is poised to potentially do it again with another film analyzing... Read More
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