Reviews

‘Training Day’ at 20: Welcome back to the jungle [Retrospective]

Twenty years since it first hit theaters, Training Day (2001) is likely best remembered as the film that netted Denzel… Read More

September 28, 2021

NYFF Review: ‘Belle’ (竜とそばかすの姫) will make your heart sing [Grade: A-]

The virtual world in Belle is called “U,” as in it specializes in “you” and what makes each and every… Read More

September 27, 2021

‘Bound’ at 25: The mold-breaker of queer cinema still has us tied up after all these years [Retrospective]

As the world awaits the return of the groundbreaking Matrix film franchise in December, it’s worth taking a moment to… Read More

September 27, 2021

NYFF Review: Cinema just took a huge dose of adrenaline with ‘Titane’ and gasped for air [Grade: A]

It’s probably better for you as a moviegoer to just take my word for it and go see Titane as… Read More

September 27, 2021

‘The Starling’ review: Theodore Melfi’s breakup dramedy flies on a broken wing [Grade: C-]

Melissa McCarthy and Theodore Melfi have shared similarities in their bodies of work. Both getting their names and work known… Read More

September 27, 2021

NYFF Review: Engrossing ‘Prism’ doc examines how photographic technologies favor white skin, questions the “neutral camera” [Grade: A]

Eléonore Yameogo, An van Dienderen, Rosine Mbakam’s Prism may spark an entirely new conversation about racial bias in filmmaking, namely the “problem”… Read More

September 25, 2021

‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ NYFF review: A beautiful film, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing [Grade: B]

Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth premiered at the New York Film Festival with little fanfare—a morning screening, a press… Read More

September 24, 2021

‘My Own Private Idaho’ at 30: Revisiting the seminal arthouse indie through the eyes of a lonely, horny teenager [Retrospective]

To this day, I still feel a close kinship with the disenfranchised, strung-out, narcoleptic gay hustler of Gus Van Sant’s… Read More

September 24, 2021

TV Review: With ‘Foundation,’ AppleTV finds its ‘Game of Thrones’ [Grade: A]

A trilogy first published in the 1950s, Isaac Asimov’s sprawling narrative spans millennia, follows tyrannical galactic dynasties, imagines opaque and… Read More

September 23, 2021

Previously on…”Survivor” recap: S41 E1 – “Come on in, folx”

It’s been 16 months since the last episode of U.S. Survivor, and Jeff Probst and company aren’t pretending otherwise. From… Read More

September 22, 2021

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