Reviews “The Nest” is hard to look away from and harder to argue with By: Matt Cipolla The latest from Sean Durkin is a quiet, searing look at a family falling into disarray featuring stellar work from Carrie Coon.
Festivals TIFF 2020: “Summer of 85” tells a wistful tale of young gay love By: Shane Slater François Ozon adds another touching romance to France’s queer cinema canon.
Reviews Lovecraft Country Episode 5 Recap: “Strange Case” By: Gena Radcliffe Ruby gets a taste of how the other side lives in an aimless, disappointing episode.
Reviews “We Are Who We Are” is an aching exploration of Gen-Z identity By: Marshall Estes Luca Guadagnino turns to TV to tell a lilting, meditative story about the uncertainties of adolescence.
Reviews “The Babysitter: Killer Queen” proves that 2020 won’t stop punishing us By: Jonah Koslofsky Add McG's execrable slasher sequel to the pile of tragedies 2020 has foisted upon us.
Festivals TIFF 2020: Rosamund Pike gloriously breaks bad in “I Care A Lot” By: Shane Slater Rosamund Pike is at her icy best in J Blakeson’s dark thriller about a corrupt legal guardian.
Festivals TIFF 2020: “Pieces of a Woman” struggles with the many faces of grief By: Shane Slater Vanessa Kirby shines in Kornél Mundruczó’s otherwise uneven drama about a couple cratering from the loss of their baby.
Columns Criterion Corner: Beau Travail, The Naked City, Brute Force Claire Denis' hypnotic masterpiece and two rough-and-ready Jules Dassin crime pics pepper this month's Criterion releases.
Festivals TIFF 2020: “One Night in Miami” eloquently speaks out for racial justice By: Shane Slater Regina King's directorial debut delivers a resonant message through a phenomenal cast and thought-provoking screenplay.
Reviews “I Am Woman” is a paper-thin biopic that can’t find its roar By: B.L. Panther The story behind one of the most powerful feminist anthems of the '70s gets a glossy treatment that ignores its grittier reality.
Reviews “Julie and the Phantoms” is as weightless as a guitar-playing ghost By: Lisa Laman Netflix creates a high-school musical about a ghostly boy band that plays all the wrong notes too obviously.
Columns P.S.H. I Love You: “25th Hour” grapples with our fragile lives Philip Seymour Hoffman lends remarkable texture to Spike Lee's 25th Hour, a film in mourning over New York and the fleeting nature of being.
Reviews “Woke” is a comedy that balances serious with silly By: Dorothy Green Keith Knight & Marshall Todd's new Hulu series is a sly mix of comedy and real-life issues that makes for a satisfying social comment.
Reviews Lovecraft Country Episode 4 Recap: “A History of Violence” By: Gena Radcliffe Atticus & the others return to Massachusetts in a shaky episode that swaps out horror for high adventure.
Reviews Spruce your space with “Get Organized with The Home Edit” By: Ashley Lara Netflix helps you scratch your decluttering itch, Kondo-style, with a bougie but buoyant reality series.
Reviews “Away” takes you to Mars with no small amount of heart By: Tim Stevens A treacly Lost pastiche about astronauts and the lives left behind on an interstellar mission gives way to surprisingly humanistic highs.
Reviews “One Night in Bangkok” can’t keep up with Mark Dacascos By: Justin Harrison Martial arts veteran Mark Dacascos shines in a killer-cab thriller; if only the movie around him was up to his level.
Reviews Star Trek Lower Decks Episode 5 Recap: “Cupid’s Errant Arrow” By: Clint Worthington Love bites like a parasite in a charming episode that finally locks in Lower Decks' more refreshing stakes.
Reviews “Mulan” brings honor to Disney’s original, but loses some heart By: Clint Worthington Niki Caro's remake of the animated classic slots nicely into the Chinese war epic formula, but a bit of Disney magic gets lost in the mix.
Reviews “Tenet” is thrilling if you can look past all the self-seriousness By: Oluwatayo Adewole Christopher Nolan's latest sci-fi thriller is often something to behold, but it's nowhere near the brilliant art it thinks it is.
Reviews “Raised by Wolves” blends sci-fi with the medieval grind of parenthood By: Jon Negroni Ridley Scott produces a heady, intellectual science fiction series with big, sumptuous ideas and occasionally shaggy presentation.