No Time to Die shakes up the Bond franchise but fails to stir
Even as it makes bold steps toward the future, Daniel Craig’s swan song as 007 feels like a frustrating hodgepodge of the films that came before it.
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Losing the thread among Death and Other Details
Hulu’s entry in the massive cast mystery trend starts with sexy confidence before collapsing under its own weight.
Glass Onion recaptures the charm & magic of the original
Benoit Blanc returns to solve another crime in Rian Johnson’s cluttered but funny mystery.
Jurassic World Dominion is a failure on a global scale
Colin Trevorrow injects plenty of dinos and nostalgia to the series, but not much else.
Ted Lasso “Carol of The Bells” Recap: (Sexy) Christmas in August
The snow’s coming down, but no one can seem to get their Christmas plans right.
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is little without its two leads
The 2011 adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s hit novel does right by its investigators but drags out the story around them.
“Spectre” Loses Itself in the Ghosts of Franchise Past
While Skyfall was a rousing success, Mendes’ return to the Bond franchise, bogs itself down in tiresome lore and continuity.
The Secrets Of Great Ladies: Mendes and the Theatricality of “Skyfall”
Sam Mendes powers his leading ladies to metatextual heights in his first Bond outing.
“Road To Perdition” Is Not A Subtle Film
Sam Mendes’ Depresson-era gangster fable is as effective as it is in-your-face with its aesthetics.
The Top 25 Movies of 2019
From Ad Astra to Us, we celebrate the cream of the cinematic crop in 2019.
Box Office Report: “Doctor Sleep” Loses the War to “Midway”
The Stephen King sequel checks out with a disappointing opener, but Roland Emmerich’s WWII epic flies high.
CIFF 10/23: “Wild Sparrow”, “And Then We Danced”, “Knives Out” & More
Our penultimate CIFF dispatch breaks down Rian Johnson’s star-studded caper Knives Out, the Georgian queer drama And Then We Danced…, and more.
High Flying Bird Review: Soderbergh Games the System With a Searing Capitalist Critique
The Tarell Alvin McRaney-penned basketball drama highlights the commodification of young black men both on and off the court.
The Girl in the Spider’s Web Review: Lisbeth Slander gets an action hero makeover
Lisbeth Salander returns, this time played by Claire Foy, in a slick but shallow sequel that trades in the series’ nuance for Bond-ian action. This piece was originally posted on Alcohollywood Pre-screening chatter before The Girl in the Spider’s Web all seemed to center on the same questions: “What happened in the last movie?” “Is … The Girl in the Spider’s Web Review: Lisbeth Slander gets an action hero makeover
Our Next Top 10 Films of 2017
This piece was originally posted on Alcohollywood Now that awards season is around the corner, everyone’s talking about their top ten films of this past year. With so many smart, insightful critics putting out lists that look very similar to mine, I thought I’d do something different. Enough people have rightly piled on the praise … Our Next Top 10 Films of 2017
What’s New on DVD/Blu-ray in July
Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, Shin Ultraman, The Watermelon Woman, and More
The best movie of 2021 was any you got to see in a theater
On a year that let us come back to the theaters, and what that meant for the movies we saw.
“Da Bears” gags are the height of comedy compared to Chicago Party Aunt’s crummy jokes
Chicago Party Aunt, Netflix’s new animated comedy, undercuts the strengths of its medium and its cast through sloppy, tired craft and writing.
“Sherman’s Showcase Spectacular” celebrates a belated Black History Month
IFC’s irreverently absurd Soul Train pastiche returns for a one-off special as inventive as it is occasionally overlong.
Brexit Review: The Big (Ben) Short
HBO’s latest is a didactic lecture of a Brexit primer whose handsome performances hide a smug political nihilism.