‘The Last of Us’ Season 2 Review: Love in the Time of Cordyceps [A-]
“Swear to me that everything about the Fireflies is true.” When we last saw Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), they were standing on... Read More
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‘Black Mirror’ Season 7 Review: The Techno Series’ Take on AI Goes to Infinity but Not Far Beyond [B-]
There aren’t souls in machines; there isn’t empathy inside a computer. The screens looking back at us will never give us anything more than a... Read More
‘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
‘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
American Film Institute (AFI) Announces 2027 Date for AFI AWARDS Honorees-Only Event 
SXSW 2026 Reviews: ‘Family Movie,’ ‘Crash Land,’ ‘Kill Me’ 
San Quentin Film Festival (SQFF) to Hold Event at Central California Women’s Facility 
‘Never After Dark’ Review: Dave Boyle’s Ghostly Spooker Will Keep You Guessing [B] SXSW