Features Criterion does it again with a celebration of 90s horror An often-overlooked decade for horror gets the spotlight, & we’ll tell you what to watch & what to skip.
Features Ranking Criterion’s High School Horror collection The Criterion Channel dives into the unique hell of being a teenager & we’ll tell you which films not to miss.
Anniversaries Singles at 30: a sweet & sadly forgotten look at Gen X romance A look back at Cameron Crowe’s charming ensemble comedy about love in the grunge era.
Anniversaries America wasn’t ready for “The Cable Guy” Audiences didn’t know what to make of a new & deeply unsettling Jim Carrey in Ben Stiller’s dark comedy.
Columns P.S.H. I Love You: “My New Gun” & a leap of faith Even in his early screen appearances, Philip Seymour Hoffman knew exactly what he was doing.
Reviews “Kid 90” shows us the highs and lows of child stardom By: Megan Sunday Soleil Moon Frye directs this bittersweet albeit breezy look back at the Hollywood teen stars of the '90s, and their difficult road to now.
Columns P.S.H. I Love You: “Patch Adams” is dead on arrival Robin Williams smarms his way through his misguided, treacly 1998 medical dramedy.
Festivals Reeling 2020: “Ahead of the Curve” has all the queer joy that’s fit to print By: B.L. Panther Jen Rainin's documentary about famed lesbian magazine Curve is a welcome snapshot of queer lit history, in all the publication's ups and downs.
Fantasia 2020 Fantasia 2020: “Free Country” is “True Detective” in the Eastern Bloc By: Clint Worthington Christian Alvart's remake of a 2014 Spanish thriller turns post-Wall German backwoods into a tense stage for murder and grit.
Anniversaries “Look, it’s the gentleman guppy”: “Waterworld” at 25 Say what you will about Kevin Costner's disasterpiece, but it's a reminder of the time when studios were willing to wade into uncharted seas.
Anniversaries 25 Years of “The Net,” and the new age of techno-thrillers A look back at a time when "the internet" was portrayed as a mysterious boogeyman that could destroy your life.
Columns “Scent of a Woman” proves a putrid example of early ’90s Oscar bait 1991's Scent of a Woman remains one of the most baffling recipients of Oscar gold, a prep-school drama lifted only by an early Philip Seymour Hoffman turn.
Joygasm! “Batman Forever” celebrates its 25th birthday Love it or hate it, Joel Schumacher's first take on the Caped Crusader was a neon-lit spectacle. Two of our writers debate its flaws & merits.
Features May’s Filmmaker of the Month: The Friday the 13th Series For the first film's 40th anniversary, we hack and slash our way through the long, bloody saga of Jason Voorhees and his journeys from hell to Manhattan to space.
Features Clint Eastwood: The Man, The Glare, The Movie Star A tribute to one of the greatest icons in movie history.
Features December’s Filmmaker of the Month: Sam Mendes As his WWI war epic 1917 comes out in time for the holidays, we spend December looking back on the eclectic modes of Sam Mendes.
Filmmaker of the Month “Die Hard With a Vengeance” Gave Me My Best Friend One writer's childhood bond with his best friend was sealed by a fateful late-night screening of Die Hard with a Vengeance.
Fantastic Fest 2019 Fantastic Fest: Christopher Winterbauer on Youth, Grief, and “Wyrm” Wyrm writer/director Christopher Winterbauer sits down at Fantastic Fest to talk about the analog appeal of '80s kitsch and adapting shorts to features.
Hall of Faces Hall of Faces: Who’s the Greatest Character on “Friends”? For the classic sitcom's 25th anniversary, we hash out which of TV's favorite pals make our list of the greatest TV characters of all time.
Filmmaker of the Month The Daring Ambiguity of the “Before” Trilogy Linklater's Before Trilogy - Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight - is an eye-catching crystallization of how relationships change over time.
TV Review: “Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling” Goes Post-Modern Netflix brings back the classic Nick cartoon twenty years later for a one-off special filled with heart and surprisingly complicated musings on the passage of time.