Reviews

Film Review: ‘Chaos Walking’ is a bit more coherent than its title suggests

The YA film has no intention of dying anytime soon. It may have slowed its roll in recent years, but… Read More

March 4, 2021

Berlin Review: Céline Sciamma’s ‘Petite Maman’ starts a tender new chapter in a life cycle of girlhood

Céline Sciamma has a tradition with names. Water Lilies' Marie, Girlhood's Marieme, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire's Marianne… Read More

March 3, 2021

Berlin Review: Things left unsaid makes Hong Sangsoo’s minimal ‘Introduction’ sing

The Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo shook up last year’s Berlinale competition with the unexpected comedic notes of the otherwise pensive… Read More

March 3, 2021

Berlin Review: Dan Stevens is a perfectly dreamy robot in Maria Schrader’s delightful sci-fi romance of ‘I’m Your Man’

It’s a widely held belief that the earliest composed texts by mankind were of administrative nature. Tablets in Cuneiform scripts… Read More

March 3, 2021

Film Review: ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ is a personal, pulse-pounding adventure

Kumandra, the setting of Raya and the Last Dragon, is fictional, but it is also not. It is not on… Read More

March 1, 2021

Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture – ‘Swept Away’ and ‘Chicago’ (2002)

“More than any other example in recent memory, Chicago shows how much the element of surprise is missing from today's… Read More

February 28, 2021

Film Review: ‘Tom & Jerry’ somehow makes New York less interesting with animated characters

There's maybe one scene in all of Tom & Jerry that at least partly measures up to the catchy formula… Read More

February 26, 2021

Film Review: Keith Thomas’ debut ‘The Vigil’ is a visceral, shomer scare

You can't run away from your past. Your past is always there, over your shoulder, like the monster in a… Read More

February 25, 2021

Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture – Freddy Got Fingered and A Beautiful Mind (2001)

“This film not only left me with an incredible sense of dread for the 80 minutes of my life wasted… Read More

February 22, 2021

TV Review: ‘Behind Her Eyes’ is Netflix at its best, worst, and most WTF

The mad, chaotic energy of Behind Her Eyes feels almost like a practical joke, the kind of prank you'd expect… Read More

February 22, 2021

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