‘September 5’ Review: Tim Fehlbaum’s Take on the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre Fails in its Presentation of Palestinian People | Venice
In 1972, Munich hosted the Summer Olympic Games. At the time, Germany was separated into two factions; East Germany, under the influence of a communist... Read More
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‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Review: The Juice is Back But Will This Legacy Sequel Quench Anybody’s Thirst? | Venice
Thirty six years have passed since audiences were introduced to the weird and wonderful mind of filmmaker Tim Burton. His sophomore feature Beetlejuice – a... Read More
Wrong Place, Wrong Time: ‘The Third Man’ (1949), ‘Collateral’ (2004) and ‘Green Room’ (2016) [Retrospective]
For most of us, our tedious and boring lives are rarely interrupted with the amount of drama needed for a narrative film. But they could... Read More
‘Only Murders in the Building’ Season 4 Review: All That Sazz
Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez are in trouble. That is, their New York sleuthy counterparts Charles, Oliver and Mabel are. After the big... Read More
Make It a Double Feature: ‘Beach Rats’ and ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’
As we make our way through August, we still feel the muggy summer heat. For this month’s column, I’ve gone with two films for those... Read More
‘English Teacher’ Review: The Schoolhouse Rocks in Brian Jordan Alvarez’s Hilarious Scholastic Comedy
FX enters the arena of educator comedies with English Teacher, a Brian Jordan Alvarez original that follows Evan Marquez as he teaches English and literature... Read More
‘Black Dog’ Review: Poetic Rehabilitation Drama Has Compassion For Man and Man’s Best Friend Led By an Extraordinary Eddie Peng
Major controversies surrounded the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games while they occurred, but it was only after they came to a close that the organisers were... Read More
‘Blink Twice’ Review: Zoë Kravitz’s Feminist ‘Get Out’ is Righteously Angry and Frustratingly Derivative
To call Blink Twice an updated, feminist version of Get Out carries a lot of implications all at once—it’s a bit obvious, somewhat reductive, and... Read More
‘Alien: Romulus’ Review: Fede Álvarez’s ‘Alien’ Sequel is a Sometimes Thrilling, Yet Synthetic Greatest Hits Album
Forty-five years ago, Ridley Scott’s Alien completely changed the game for science fiction filmmaking. It combined aspects of the B-movies of the 1960s with the... Read More
‘Borderlands’ Review: Lock This Disaster in a Vault and Throw Away the Key
Was Madame Web just the warm-up for a bigger blockbuster disaster on the horizon? Lionsgate’s adaptation of the video game franchise Borderlands – credited to... 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