‘Hacks’ Season 4 Review: The LA-Set Late Night Season Finds Deborah and Ava in a War of the Words [B+]
A good rivalry features two opponents so intent on causing damage to the others’ life that the only reasonable outcome would be for one of... Read More
Reviews
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 6 Review: The Revolutionary and Prescient Series Comes to a Thrilling Close [A]
It’s been three years since the fifth season finale of The Handmaid’s Tale in which June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) and her baby daughter Nicole boarded... 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
‘Dying for Sex’ TV Review: Michelle Williams Comes Into Her Own in Devastating, and Devastatingly Funny Rumination on Death and Desire [A]
Orgasms are crucial. In a contemporary world where its inhabitants are easily disengaged from their lives with the screens they stare at daily that create... Read More
‘Mid-Century Modern’ TV Review: Nathan Lane, Matt Bomer and Nathan Lee Graham are a Golden Team of Spiritual Sisters [B]
Funerals are great fodder for comedies. From Curb Your Enthusiasm to The Wonder Years to, of course, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, death on a... 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
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