Reviews

‘Manodrome’ review: Jesse Eisenberg is phenomenal in John Trengove’s fascinating take on toxic masculinity | Berlinale

The Wound, the acclaimed debut by the South African director John Trengove, provides a good launchpad for his sophomore feature,… Read More

February 19, 2023

‘Reality’ review: Sydney Sweeney is a tour de force in intense U.S. election whistleblower thriller | Berlinale

Playwright Tina Satter makes her screen debut with Reality, a simmering investigative drama reconstructing the arrest of Reality Winner, an… Read More

February 19, 2023

‘The Adults’ review: Dustin Guy Defa misses the mark in this quirky family drama | Berlinale

American indie favorite Dustin Guy Defa returns to Berlinale with a feature almost a decade after his short film Person… Read More

February 18, 2023

‘BlackBerry’ review: 90s nostalgia yields little cinematic juice in what feels like mid-TV at best | Berlinale

BlackBerry, the follow-up to his 2016 docu-fiction Operation Avalanche, sees actor-director Matt Johnson put inventors, investors, and the internet to… Read More

February 17, 2023

‘She Came to Me’ review: Peter Dinklage, Marisa Tomei and Anne Hathaway stun in ace rom-com dramedy | Berlinale

The latest film from writer-director Rebecca Miller (Maggie’s Plan, Personal Velocity) starring Oscar winners Anne Hathaway and Marisa Tomei and… Read More

February 16, 2023

‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ review: Jonathan Majors conquers in ugly, lackluster entry of the MCU

Despite maintaining a firm position as the most financially successful film franchise of all time, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has… Read More

February 14, 2023

‘Titanic’ at 25: My heart still goes on for a masterpiece as magnificent and tragic as the ship itself

Titanic is the first film that I can remember watching. I was too young to see it during its first… Read More

February 13, 2023

‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’ review: We come to this place for Magic (Mike) and one final strip across the pond

Nicole Kidman's AMC ad is a new kind of national anthem for moviegoers and people who are generally savvy when… Read More

February 7, 2023

‘Knock at the Cabin’ review: M. Night Shyamalan’s claustrophobic thriller struggles to ground its deeper narrative

Perhaps no career of any filmmaker has been so fascinating to track than that of M. Night Shyamalan. While not… Read More

February 1, 2023

‘The 1619 Project’ review: A thought-provoking presentation of Nikole Hannah Jones’s important work in a new format

As a graduate student in a Public History program, it would be impossible for me to escape knowledge of “The… Read More

February 1, 2023

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