Reviews

‘The Last of Us’ review: Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey survive and thrive in Neil Druckmann’s faithful yet expansive adaptation

There has been a disconnect between video games and their adaptations in the last decade, an issue that stems from… Read More

January 10, 2023

‘M3GAN’ review: Blumhouse’s malignant Barbie is bulletproof and has nothing to lose

It’s January. Time to watch a terrible horror movie again… for the nth time. At least it seemed that way… Read More

January 6, 2023

20 years ago ‘Chicago’ promised a new era of razzle dazzle movie musicals but Hollywood had… artistic differences [Retrospective]

It remains one of the most effective stylistic gambits in cinema history: Over the course of five cuts in about… Read More

December 21, 2022

30 years later, does the ‘hoo-ah’ of Al Pacino’s Oscar win for ‘Scent of a Woman’ still smell as sweet? [Retrospective]

I fell in love with Oscarwatching in the 90s - which was a magical time for me in regard to… Read More

December 21, 2022

‘Babylon’ review: Here’s to the fools who dream; Damien Chazelle’s epitaph for cinema is the evil b-side to ‘La La Land’

When Mia begrudgingly attends a party at the start of Damien Chazelle's magical, much-discussed film La La Land, she stares… Read More

December 16, 2022

‘Gangs of New York’ at 20: All the beauty and the bloodshed of Martin Scorsese’s 1860s New York City immigrant mobster tale still holds [Retrospective]

I can still remember walking out of the AMC theater in Framingham, Massachusetts after hearing U2’s powerful song The Hands… Read More

December 15, 2022

‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ review: James Cameron returns to Pandora and it’s bigger and better than ever

It seems as if for the past thirteen years, James Cameron’s technical marvel only found its way back into the… Read More

December 13, 2022

‘Tootsie’ at 40: Something’s telling me it might (still) be you – Retrospective

It may be the ultimate personification of the current zeitgeist, but discussion and consideration of gender roles, identification and fluidity… Read More

December 8, 2022

‘The Star’ retrospective: Bette Davis put the camp in Oscar campaign in the zenith of meta awards movies

“C’mon, Oscar,” says Bette Davis in The Star (1952), clutching one of her own golden statuettes from the 1930s. “Let’s… Read More

December 5, 2022

‘Violent Night’ review: Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good fight

One of my favorite Christmas poems growing up goes, “‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not… Read More

November 30, 2022

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