‘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
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‘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
‘Kontinental ’25’ Review: Radu Jude’s Homage to Rossellini Finds the Director at his Most Humanistic if a Bit Expected [B-] – Berlinale
To call Romanian director Radu Jude a diagnostician of our times would not be an overestimation. Moreso, his rich body of work resonates with audiences... Read More
‘Blue Moon’ Review: Ethan Hawke and Andrew Scott Sizzle in Richard Linklater’s Tragicomic Valentine to Love and Broadway [A-] – Berlinale
On a cold, rainy November night in 1943, a disheveled man with a long overcoat and a bottle of booze fell to the ground unconscious,... Read More
‘Win or Lose’ TV Review: Pixar’s First Series Takes Some Bold Swings but Strikes Out with Trans Character Erasure [B]
You can’t discuss Pixar’s first original TV series, Win Or Lose, without bringing up what has been lost in the cutting room. Disney were hardly... Read More
‘Late Shift’ Review: Tense, Hospital-set Thriller Highlights a Hidden Crisis and a Powerful Performance from Leonie Benesch [B+] – Berlinale
Almost every healthcare system worldwide is in crisis, overwhelmed with record demand, underfunding and a lack of staff on shifts. Swiss writer-director Petra Volpe highlights... Read More
Kansas City Film Critics Circle (KCFCC) Awards: ‘One Battle After Another’ Named Best Film 
Utah Film Critics Association (UFCA) Nominations: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners’ Lead 
Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC) Winners: ‘Hamnet,’ ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ Lead 
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle (PFCC) Winners: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners’ Fight It Out