Stop the Presses: “Run This Town” is a Snore Ricky Tollman's directorial debut has great ingredients, but they add up to a terrible stew.
TV “Dispatches From Elsewhere” Sends Viewers on a Wild Chase Jason Segel gives us an energetic journey with compelling characters to balance a campy premise.
“Scream, Queen!”: When Subtext is Just Text A touching, sensitive documentary traces actor Mark Patton’s journey from horror icon to self-imposed obscurity and back again.
Features March’s Filmmaker of the Month: Spike Lee For the month of March, we look back at the vibrant, confrontational, incisive work of one of American filmmaking's most iconic figures.
TV Review: “Ugly Delicious” Season 2 Is an Informative Belly Rub David Chang's look at the social, cultural, and financial sides of food goes down easily, even if it might be salty for some.
Box Office Report Box Office: Paradoxically, “The Invisible Man” Is Widely Seen A $29 million take spells success for the low-budget Universal horror film, proof that the Blumhouse model works.
TV “The Outsider” Recap: “Tigers and Bears” The team figures out where to center their attack, as the penultimate episode of the season continues to struggle with pacing.
Filmmaker of the Month The Neoliberal Time Capsule of “Ricki and the Flash” Jonathan Demme's final film is a flawed, fascinating time capsule into Obama-era politics.
“Wendy” Struggles to Get to Neverland Benh Zeitlin's follow up to "Beasts of the Southern Wild" loses its way in a muddle of fairy dust and magical realism.
TV “Star Trek: Picard” Uses a Blunt Instrument to Open “The Impossible Box” A sea of good ideas gets drowned in cliche as Picard and Soji face the truth.
TV Brooklyn Nine-Nine: We Need to Talk About “Debbie” Vanessa Bayer's rogue cop breaks bad in a middling misfire for the season.
Features The True Villain of “Candyman” Isn’t the Urban Legend Himself—It’s Helen After 28 years, two sequels, and now with a reboot coming this June, Bernard Rose's look at racial and economic disparity lingers the most in how it skewers the myth of the white savior.
“The Invisible Man” Turns Gaslighting Into Chilling Horror Leigh Whannell's follow-up to Upgrade is a chilling, Hitchcockian thriller about the ways trauma follows us around.
Strong Women Bond at the Feet of “Saint Frances” A sensitive, nuanced Chicago dramedy that dives into the emotional complexities of abortion.
TV Review: “Queen Sono” Season One Is a Flawed But Fresh Spy Thriller Netflix's new spy series is more than a little uneven, but it's an original thriller that blends cultural specificity and mainstream appeal.
Filmmaker of the Month Loco De Amor: The Yuppie Punk of “Something Wild” Demme's 1986 screwball comedy is one of his most joyful and unexpectedly rebellious films.
Emma. Review: More Merry Than Wise Autumn de Wilde's straightforward adaptation of Jane Austen's novel has its charming moments, but that doesn't make up for its missed opportunities.
Features “Rachel Getting Married” Is Harrowing, Messy, and Real With its lo-fi aesthetics and quietly chaotic presentation, Jonathan Demme's 2008 drama never goes for the easy conflicts at hand.
TV “The Outsider” Recap: In “Foxhead,” Time is Just About Up Claude takes a trip out of town & the team isn’t far behind him in an occasionally meandering episode that has a few nicely macabre touches.
TV Doctor Who: “Ascension of the Cybermen” Sets Up a High-Stakes Finale Season 12 ramps up the tension with a thrilling hour that threatens lore-shattering conclusions next week.
Features “The Manchurian Candidate”, A Study of Humanity Lost Jonathan Demme's remake of the 1962 classic is as notable for its look at political dehumanization as it is its modernization.