‘Paradise’ Season 2 Review: There Goes the Neighborhood [B-]
As our world gets more chaotic, TV shows about post-apocalyptic survivors are sometimes strangely comforting and cathartic. There are zombie stories like The Walking Dead... Read More
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‘How to Make a Killing’ Review: The Latest Eat the Rich Satire is Starving to Death [C-]
When the director of an impressive film made on a shoestring budget gets to spread their wings a bit with access to more money and... Read More
Make it a Double Feature: ‘Daughters of the Dust’ and ‘Eve’s Bayou’
Black History Month is not only a month where we acknowledge pivotal Black figures throughout history, and a form of acknowledgment that should be year-round,... Read More
‘At the Sea’ Review: Amy Adams Gasps for Air in Film Desperate to Drown Her Under the Weight of Water [C] Berlinale
Amy Adams gazes just past the camera. Her expression is tired, hollow, as if any additional emotion would already be too much. In this extended... Read More
‘Take Me Home’ Review: Liz Sargent’s Intimate Caregiving Drama Confronts a System Built to Fail [B-] Berlinale
Over the past decade, Sundance has increasingly become a home for films that resist spectacle in favor of proximity. That sensibility now finds an extension... Read More
‘Rose’ Review: Sandra Hüller Commands the Screen in Gender-Bending Period Piece with a Towering, Career-High Performance [A-] Berlinale
Smoke hangs heavy over the scorched earth. In the distance, cannon fire rumbles like the aftershocks of a catastrophe that has long since occurred and... Read More
‘Mouse’ Review: Sophie Okonedo and Katherine Mallen Kupferer Shine in Tender Portrait of Grief and Growing Up [B+] Berlinale
It is the summer of 2002 in a suburban corner of Arkansas. Dust dances in golden light, toilet paper flutters from treetops after a teenage... Read More
‘Kokuho’ Review: The Vibrant World of Kabuki is Spectacularly Recreated in Lee Sang-il’s Resilient Character Study [B+]
There are plenty of films about artists. It’s seemingly one of the go-to professions for screenwriters to explore. How many films have we seen –... Read More
‘Crime 101’ Review: Chris Hemsworth Brings the Heat in Michael Man-Influenced Actioner as Good as its Title is Bad [B+]
Chaos and order. Shown but not told specifics of crime and law enforcement. A stoic protagonist with an underfurnished, beach-adjacent apartment. These are ideas central... Read More
“Wuthering Heights” Review: Emerald Fennell’s Stylish Spin on the Classic Novel is More Bodice Ripper Than Brontë Gripper [C+]
When Emily Brontë published her only novel, “Wuthering Heights,” in 1847, it was incredibly transgressive and disruptive. The violence and frank portrayal of obsession and... Read More
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‘I Love Boosters’ Review: Boots Riley’s Dressed to Excess Cartoon Revolution is Too Much and Not Enough [B-] SXSW 
‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ Season One Review: Elle Fanning and Michelle Pfeiffer Momedy Hits the Mark [B+]