Reviews

‘Only Murders in the Building’ Season 4 Review: All That Sazz

Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez are in trouble.  That is, their New York sleuthy counterparts Charles, Oliver and… Read More

August 27, 2024

Make It a Double Feature: ‘Beach Rats’ and ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’

As we make our way through August, we still feel the muggy summer heat. For this month’s column, I’ve gone… Read More

August 26, 2024

‘English Teacher’ Review: The Schoolhouse Rocks in Brian Jordan Alvarez’s Hilarious Scholastic Comedy

FX enters the arena of educator comedies with English Teacher, a Brian Jordan Alvarez original that follows Evan Marquez as… Read More

August 26, 2024

‘Black Dog’ Review: Poetic Rehabilitation Drama Has Compassion For Man and Man’s Best Friend  Led By an Extraordinary Eddie Peng

Major controversies surrounded the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games while they occurred, but it was only after they came to a… Read More

August 16, 2024

‘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… Read More

August 14, 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

‘Borderlands’ Review: Lock This Disaster in a Vault and Throw Away the Key

Was Madame Web just the warm-up for a bigger blockbuster disaster on the horizon? Lionsgate’s adaptation of the video game… Read More

August 8, 2024

‘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… Read More

August 7, 2024

‘Duchess’ Review: Neil Marshall’s Charmless Guy Ritchie Rip-Off is a Female Empowerment Forgery

In 1998, Guy Ritchie erupted onto the British cinema scene with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The gangster movie,… Read More

August 5, 2024

How ‘Sing Sing’ and ‘Ghostlight’ Highlight the Power of Theater as Venues of Survival

Theater and cinema have always had a strange symbiotic relationship. While cinema has, over the decades, become more accessible to… Read More

August 2, 2024

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