‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 Review: Mike White’s Ugly Americans Invade Thailand in Bracingly Funny New Installment [A-]
Wanderlust can take control when a vacation begins, an insatiable need to explore and desire to find new experiences. The feeling claws its way in... Read More
TV Reviews
‘Severance’ Season 2 Review: It’s Time to Clock Back with the Innies and Outies of Lumon [A]
You can be anyone you want to be at your job. It’s a complete break from regular life: when the time-clock is punched, the edges... Read More
‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Review: It’s Big Bucks, All Whammies in Failed Follow Up to One of TV’s Best First Seasons [C-]
It’s been over three years since the first season of the Emmy-winning global blockbuster that was the Netflix original series Squid Game. Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk’s... Read More
‘Somebody Somewhere’ TV Review: HBO’s Underrated Heartland Comedy Closes as Hilarious as Ever
Maybe a cunt pillow is the last thing you’d expect to get shipped out of Manhattan, Kansas, but Somebody Somewhere has proven through its first... Read More
‘A Very Royal Scandal’ TV Review: Dutiful and Boring, There’s Simply No Scoop Here
Can a movie about an interview reveal more about its subject than the interview itself? With the recent, Emmy-nominated Netflix movie Scoop – adapted from... Read More
‘American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez’ Review: A Clichéd, Lurid Afterschool Special Despite an Excellent Performance from Josh Rivera
After dramatizing some of our time’s most sensational collisions of news, entertainment and culture stories, it’s not surprising that it would be executive producers Ryan... Read More
‘The Penguin’ TV Review: Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti Compete For Crime MVP of Gotham in the Best DCEU Series Ever
Gotham City is easily the first metropolis that comes to mind when thinking of the most dangerous and unlivable fictional places to live. Fans of... Read More
‘How to Die Alone’ TV Review: Natasha Rothwell Steals the Show (and a Credit Card) as a Natural Born Lead
Near-death experiences famously create dissonance for those involved, a new outlook on life stemming from almost losing it. Natasha Rothwell (Insecure, The White Lotus) has... 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
‘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
Trailer Watch: ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps,’ ‘Thunderbolts*,’ ’28 Years Later,’ ‘The Roses,’ ‘The Life of Chuck’ 
Alice Rohrwacher Named President of the Caméra d’or Jury of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival 
85th Peabody Awards: ‘Hacks,’ ‘Ripley,’ ‘Say Nothing,’ Among Entertainment Nominees 
Sophie Hyde’s ‘Jimpa,’ starring Olivia Colman and John Lithgow, to Open Both NewFest and Frameline LGBTQ+ Film Festivals