‘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
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
‘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
‘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
Producers Guild (PGA) and Screen Actors Actors Guild (SAG) Awards Predictions: More ‘One Battle’ vs ‘Sinners’ Provide the Final Showdowns Before Oscar 
‘Mint’ Review: Ambition Outpaces Impact in ‘Snapper’ Director Charlotte Regan’s Stylish BBC Crime Drama Series [C+] Berlinale 
‘17’ Review: Kosara Mitić’s Devastating Debut Exposes the Cost of Silence and Complicity [B] Berlinale 
Vancouver Film Critics Circle (VFCC) Winners: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners’ Take Top Awards