‘The Amateur’ Review: Rami Malek Joins the Dead Wives Club in Stodgy, Data-Driven Thriller [C]
Hollywood has long been obsessed with stories about ordinary men finding inner strength to do extraordinary things. Most often that strength comes from grief and... Read More
Film Reviews
‘The Encampments’ Review: A Powerful Picture of Resistance and the Repression of Fundamental Rights at Columbia University [A]
Some time from now — longer than it should be, but sooner than you think — people will look back at this period in history... Read More
‘A Minecraft Movie’ Review: The Best-Selling Video Game of All Time Becomes Generic Building Blocks in Uninspired Adaptation [C]
The troubled relationship between cinema and video games—namely, the former’s filmic interpretations of the latter—can often be distilled down to an attempt to translate an... Read More
Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture – ‘Dirty Love’ and ‘Crash’ (2005)
You know when someone smells the rotten milk and says “Oh god, this is horrible, smell this.” And then you smell it, knowing it will... Read More
‘Warfare’ Review: Alex Garland’s Band of Brothers is a Brutal Tale of Innocence Lost [B+]
It’s been said that war does not determine who is right, only who is left. Those with the moral high ground do not always win,... Read More
‘Hot Milk’ Review: Emma Mackey Blazes Through Choppy Mother-Daughter Portrait [C] | BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
There’s a moment in Hot Milk that looks like a dream: a young woman is floating in the cyan-blue sea under the Spanish sun. It’s... Read More
‘Snow White’ Review: Rachel Zegler IS the Fairest of Them All in Marc Webb’s Fairytale Remake [C+]
For the past decade, the Walt Disney Company has been pillaging its back catalog of animated films, turning them into gaudy, garish live-action spectacles that... Read More
‘The Alto Knights’ Review: But They’re Gangsters, Identical Gangsters All the Way [C]
Gangster films have been a staple of cinema since the earliest days and over the last fifty years, few actors are as synonymous with the genre... Read More
‘The Astronaut’ Review: In This Space, No One Cares If You Scream | SXSW
A familiar premise isn’t always a bad thing when it comes to horror and science fiction, so long as it’s presented through a new point... Read More
SXSW 2025 Reviews: ‘Fantasy Life,’ ‘Slanted,’ ‘Uvalde Mom’
For the third dispatch from the 2025 SXSW Film Festival, we take a look at three films centered around female-led stories, two films in the... Read More
‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Review: Amanda Seyfried is Mother (Ann) in Mona Fastvold’s Miraculous Musical Drama [A] 
With ‘Song Sung Blue,’ Craig Brewer Pays Tribute to Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman, Joy Amongst Sadness, and the Creation of Art [VIDEO INTERVIEW] 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 131 – ‘High Life’ (Claire Denis, 2019) 
Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ): ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Hamnet’ Lead