‘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
Reviews
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
‘The Line’ review: Interesting ideas are quickly hazed in Ethan Berger’s run-of-the-mill cautionary tale about fraternity life | Tribeca
Fraternities exist to offer people a sense of community, but they can also take much more than they give. Well-documented cases of hazing and truly... Read More
From ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’ to ‘Beautiful Thing,’ Six British Gay Films to Watch for Pride Month
As people look for films to watch on Pride Month, classics like Brokeback Mountain and Moonlight will rightfully make their way to people’s watchlists. But... Read More
‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ review: Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback breathe new life into the robot-loving franchise
The Transformers live-action franchise has an interesting place in the current mix of over-saturated sequels, reboots and superhero films in that it predates the Marvel... Read More
‘The Flash’ review: Michael Keaton’s Batman shines in a bland and disconnected multiverse
We’re in our multiverse era and it is fitting that The Flash, a film dealing in divergent paths and multiverses would have its own long-winding... Read More
‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ review: The shape-shifting sequel pulls you into its wondrous web
Let’s do things differently this time. It’s a line spoken by the punk little drummer girl of a Spider-Woman, Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld), who opens... 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