‘Barbie’ Review: Greta Gerwig’s Comedic Candy-Coated Fantasia Doubles as an Existential Epic About Being Alive
There is always an age when children wonder whether or not they’re a little too old to play with Barbies. For me, it came on... Read More
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‘The Miracle Club’ Review: Time Heals All Wounds in a Charming, Clunky Tale of Grief and Forgiveness
‘The Miracle Club’ Review: Time Heals All Wounds in a Charming, Clunky Tale of Grief and Forgiveness
A certain sense of joy comes from watching veteran actresses play characters who embark on a journey to a bucket list destination in hopes of... Read More
‘What We Do in the Shadows’ Season 5 Review: Writing Remains Bloody Sharp with Talking Dolls, Pride, and Guillermo’s Fate
Have you ever had a talking doll that accompanied you at all times, or is Nadja – in FX’s What We Do in the Shadows... Read More
‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ Review: Tom Cruise is Back to Save Summer Once Again and Rage Against the (AI) Machine
For close to thirty years, audiences have watched as IMF agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has accepted the most dangerous, complicated missions in order to... Read More
No Snakes Allowed: Ranking the Indiana Jones Films from ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ to ‘The Dial of Destiny’
Few film franchises have had as much cultural staying power as Indiana Jones. The adventures of Harrison Ford’s whip-wielding, snake-phobic archeologist have found new generations... Read More
‘40 Carats’ Retrospective: 50 Years Ago Liv Ullman Shined Bright Like a Diamond
It was the casting decision that baffled Hollywood. In the film adaptation of the frothy Broadway comedy 40 Carats, 33-year-old Liv Ullmann, star of numerous... Read More
Everything in its right place: Ranking the films of Wes Anderson from ‘Bottle Rocket’ to ‘Asteroid City’
Few modern filmmakers have established an aesthetic as distinctive as Wes Anderson. Scroll through social media on any given day and you’ll see fan-created artwork... Read More
‘Extraction 2’ review: Chris Chris Bang Bang
Somewhere in between the balletic symphony of violence that is the John Wick franchise and the grounded brute force of Paul Greengrass’ work on the... Read More
‘Playland’ review: A transfixing genre-bender about Boston’s oldest gay bar where the style is the substance | Tribeca
It might just be the time of day that I’ve gone to my local gay bar, but it feels almost like a ghost town when... Read More
‘Secret Invasion’ review: Despite a delicious turn by Olivia Colman, the latest MCU series frustrates instead of flourishes
Marvel joined the television game in January 2021 with WandaVision, bringing the MCU into a new era that exists across the big and small screen.... Read More
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