Turning Red delivers uniquely fun coming-of-age panda-monium
Turning Red, director Domee Shi’s first feature film, is excellent, creative, hilarious, thoughtful, and gloriously distinct.
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The Top 25 Films of 2020
From The Assistant to Wolfwalkers, we guide you through the cinema that survived a devastating 2020 and made it to our screens — and hearts.
“First Cow” Breezes Through the West with Peace and Patience
Kelly Reichardt’s latest is a kindhearted storybook of a film that gracefully balances the sights, sounds, and textures of pre-Gold Rush Oregon.
Star Trek Lower Decks’ season 4 finale proves who Mariner is and who she isn’t
By bringing in a rival with surface similarities, “Old Friends, New Planets” articulates the Ensign’s true self and how much she’s grown.
Star Trek: Lower Decks turns to the past to explain the present
“The Inner Fight” channels trouble-making ensigns and cadets from Star Trek’s ago to explain Mariner’s current struggle.
Star Trek: Lower Decks finds camaraderie in caves and triumph in its tropes
“Caves” is the gem of an already excellent season.
On Star Trek: Lower Decks, Tendi finds acceptance, even when it’s not easy bein’ green
A girls’ trip to the Orion homeworld raises some old insecurities while Boimler and Rutherford discover cosplay dispute resolution.
Star Trek’s Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks are blended to perfection in the franchise’s most ambitious crossover yet
Ensign Boimler meets Captain Pike in a time-traveling adventure with something profound on its mind. This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movie being covered here wouldn’t exist. NOW STREAMING: Powered by JustWatch “Those Old Scientists” may be the … Star Trek’s Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks are blended to perfection in the franchise’s most ambitious crossover yet
Star Trek: Lower Decks Pens a Joyous Love Letter to Deep Space Nine
A visit to the venerable station brings Captain Freeman, Tendi, and the audience in line with the seminal series.
Strange New Worlds uses Spock’s duality to explore the gender divide
A superb non-binary guest star helps prove the franchise’s old rhythms are still fit for modern times.
Star Trek: Discovery Teaches Lessons Old and New in “All Is Possible”
The latest episode clicks when it offers the kind of meat and potatoes Trek tropes fans love. NOW STREAMING: Powered by JustWatch I’m a sucker for when Discovery returns to solid meat-and-potatoes Star Trek concepts. The group of squabbling crewmen who find unity when it counts, despite their differences, is a franchise classic. (See: “The Galileo Seven” from The Original … Star Trek: Discovery Teaches Lessons Old and New in “All Is Possible”
Star Trek Discovery Season 3 Episode 6 Recap: You can’t go home again
Burnham and Georgiou track down another clue to the Burn, while the former reevaluates their true place on the Discovery.
“Star Trek: Discovery” Season 3 Episode 1: Finally charting its own course
Trek’s flagship series takes a dramatic leap forward, stumbling toward its true potential.
“Star Trek: Lower Decks” kicks off with an irreverent “Second Contact”
The Rick and Morty vibe takes a lot of getting used to, but there are glimmers of promise in the latest Star Trek adventure.
“Star Trek Picard” Tries to Roll Sevens in “Stardust City Rag”
Seven of Nine slings guns and runs a heist in an episode that’s tonally all over the map.
Box Office Report: “Bad Boys” Boom, “Gretel & Hansel” Grimm
Bad Boys for Life finds itself atop the charts yet again while Oz Perkins’ horror fairytale fails to crack the top three over the Super Bowl weekend.
“Mystery Train” is Jim Jarmusch’s Love Letter to the Ghosts of Memphis
Jim Jarmusch’s atmospheric ode to Elvis and the fleetingness of time holds up more than 30 years later as one of his best works.