‘Descendent’ Review: A Moving and Reflective Tale of Fatherhood, Male Loneliness, and Aliens [B+] | SXSW
What do you get when you mix fatherhood anxiety with male loneliness and a touch of aliens? The result is Descendent, a thoughtful piece of... Read More
Reviews
‘The Baltimorons’ Review: Jay Duplass Returns with an Endearing, Bittersweet Christmas Eve Romance [B] | SXSW
The Baltimorons is Jay Duplass’ first original feature film in 14 years. One half of the American independent cinema duo heavyweights of the aughts and... Read More
SXSW 2025 Reviews: ‘Another Simple Favor,’ Death of a Unicorn,’ ‘The Accountant 2’
In my first dispatch for the 2025 SXSW Film Festival, I take a look at three of the headliners from the festival line-up that features... Read More
‘Together’ Review: Dave Franco and Alison Brie Dare and Delight in a Blood-Soaked Flesh for Fantasy [A-] | SXSW
I’ve always been scared my eventual life partner would kill me. Perhaps not in the traditional sense of being murdered, but the loss of life... Read More
‘Government Cheese’ TV Review: David Oyelowo (Barely) Rises Above in 1960s American Dream Comedy That Can’t Decide What It Wants to Be [C-]
Have you ever almost drowned, then subsequently been released from prison only to start looking towards the life you lost while in there? It might... Read More
‘The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick’ Review: Maybe the Real Treasure Was the Parasites We Made Along the Way [B+] | SXSW
The blinding darkness of a forest hides the blood-suckers. Trees shoot from the ground and extend themselves towards the sky, the tops a canopy for... Read More
‘Novocaine’ Review: A Winning Jack Quaid is Comfortably Numb in Painless Action-Comedy [C+]
It’s a pretty sad commentary on the state of Hollywood filmmaking that the only types of comedies being produced with consistency are hyphenated. Comedy-dramas, horror-comedies,... Read More
‘The Studio’ TV Review: Seth Rogen’s Scathing and Hilarious Look at Hollywood From the Inside Gets the Green Light [B+]
“Is it weird that all of the live-action characters are white and all of the non-white actors are CG?” Crafting a Kool-Aid adaptation should feel... Read More
‘Black Bag’ Review: Sex, Spies, and Videotape [B+]
Early in Black Bag, Steven Soderbergh’s taut new espionage thriller doubling as a domestic and workplace romance, intelligence officer George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) finds a... Read More
‘What Does That Nature Say to You’ Review: Hong Sang-soo’s Latest Remains Disarmingly Observational Yet a Touch Out of Focus [B] – Berlinale
South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo is losing his sight as he ages into an old man. For many directors, this would cement their retirement, but... Read More
‘Jay Kelly,’ ‘Hamnet,’ ‘Pluribus,’ ‘Task’ and More on AFI’s Top 10 Films and Television of 2025 Lists 
‘Frankenstein’ to Receive Visionary Honor from Palm Springs International Film Awards 
Robert Yeoman to be Honored with American Society of Cinematographers’ Lifetime Achievement Award 
National Board of Review: ‘One Battle After Another’ Tops in Film, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor; Netflix Lands Four in Top 10