Reviews

‘Barbie’ Review: Greta Gerwig’s Comedic Candy-Coated Fantasia Doubles as an Existential Epic About Being Alive

There is always an age when children wonder whether or not they’re a little too old to play with Barbies.… Read More

July 18, 2023

‘The Miracle Club’ Review: Time Heals All Wounds in a Charming, Clunky Tale of Grief and Forgiveness

A certain sense of joy comes from watching veteran actresses play characters who embark on a journey to a bucket… Read More

July 10, 2023

‘What We Do in the Shadows’ Season 5 Review: Writing Remains Bloody Sharp with Talking Dolls, Pride, and Guillermo’s Fate

Have you ever had a talking doll that accompanied you at all times, or is Nadja - in FX's What… Read More

July 6, 2023

‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ Review: Tom Cruise is Back to Save Summer Once Again and Rage Against the (AI) Machine

For close to thirty years, audiences have watched as IMF agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has accepted the most dangerous,… Read More

July 5, 2023

No Snakes Allowed: Ranking the Indiana Jones Films from ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ to ‘The Dial of Destiny’

Few film franchises have had as much cultural staying power as Indiana Jones. The adventures of Harrison Ford’s whip-wielding, snake-phobic… Read More

June 30, 2023

‘40 Carats’ Retrospective: 50 Years Ago Liv Ullman Shined Bright Like a Diamond

It was the casting decision that baffled Hollywood. In the film adaptation of the frothy Broadway comedy 40 Carats, 33-year-old… Read More

June 29, 2023

Everything in its right place: Ranking the films of Wes Anderson from ‘Bottle Rocket’ to ‘Asteroid City’

Few modern filmmakers have established an aesthetic as distinctive as Wes Anderson. Scroll through social media on any given day… Read More

June 23, 2023

‘Extraction 2’ review: Chris Chris Bang Bang

Somewhere in between the balletic symphony of violence that is the John Wick franchise and the grounded brute force of… Read More

June 15, 2023

‘Playland’ review: A transfixing genre-bender about Boston’s oldest gay bar where the style is the substance | Tribeca

It might just be the time of day that I’ve gone to my local gay bar, but it feels almost… Read More

June 14, 2023

‘Secret Invasion’ review: Despite a delicious turn by Olivia Colman, the latest MCU series frustrates instead of flourishes

Marvel joined the television game in January 2021 with WandaVision, bringing the MCU into a new era that exists across… Read More

June 14, 2023

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