TV Marvel’s “Runaways” Moves a Lot in Season 3, But Goes Almost Nowhere The third season of the Marvel series has some high points, but mostly feels like it's running in place.
Grand Isle Review: Our Sex Games Have Become Too Elaborate Nicolas Cage stars in a Southern fried psychological thriller that’s both too much, and not enough.
TV The Expanse Season 4 Review: Here Comes the Juice The cult-hit space opera heads to Amazon for a bigger budget, wider scope, and renewed sense of purpose.
“A Christmas Prince 3: The Royal Baby” Delivers More Holiday Absurdity Netflix's flagship feel-good Christmas series kicks off with another comfortably cheesy romp.
In Fabric Review: Say Yes to the Dress… or Die Peter Strickland's frigid, Freudian fever dream looks at fetishism and consumerism with a killer sense of style.
TV Watchmen Episode 7 Recap: “An Almost Religious Awe” Memory and history collide in a startling episode that offers yet more interrogation of the show's source material.
TV His Dark Materials Recap: “The Lost Boy” Things take a bleak turn as Lyra goes on a side trip & discovers the fate of one of the missing children.
TV Truth Be Told Review: Mining Drama From the True Crime Podcast Apple TV+'s new drama sends Octavia Spencer and Aaron Paul on a racially-charged search for justice.
The Aeronauts Review: Going to Heaven in a Handbasket Tom Harper's ascent to the stratosphere has moments of tension, but they're undercut by a choppy narrative and a shallow approach to its true story.
Features Hot Wheels: A Look at the Brief But Glorious Trend of Roller Disco Movies Roller skating as a pastime for the rich & famous lasted barely a year, but resulted in some of the best in 70s kitsch cinema.
Filmmaker of the Month Queerness and the Small Subversions of “Big Business” The Bette Midler/Lily Tomlin mistaken-identity comedy played a curiously strong role in one writer's journey to queerness and leftism.
Queen & Slim Review: Black Love Matters Melina Matsoukas' vivid debut makes a Bonnie & Clyde story out of the dangers of being black in America.
TV Review: “Servant” Serves Up Atmosphere, But Not Much Else Apple TV+ adds another just okay series to its lineup, psychological horror produced by M. Night Shyamalan.
Filmmaker of the Month Desire, Use, Repeat: Patterns of Grace in “Her Smell” Alex Ross Perry's punk-rock elegy isn't just a bittersweet portrait of rock stardom, it's a beautiful model of the long, hard road to sobriety.
Columns Criterion Corner: “Now, Voyager” Bette Davis' 1942 melodrama masterpiece Now, Voyager, directed by Irving Rapper, gets a pristine rerelease courtesy of The Criterion Collection.
Filmmaker of the Month “You’ve Got Mail” and the Fight for a Vulnerable Life Nora Ephron's charming Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan comedy also makes the case for letting yourself be vulnerable and brave.
TV His Dark Materials Episode Recap: “Armour” Lyra & the Gyptians get some formidable muscle, both human and otherwise, in a dazzling, emotionally moving fourth episode.
Little Women Review: Gerwig’s Girls March to Their Own Drum Greta Gerwig's adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott book is sensitive, challenging, and earnestly engages with the source material.
TV Watchmen Episode 6 Recap: “This Extraordinary Being” Six episodes in, the show does its deepest, most formally daring look at historical prejudice, policing and American mythology.
Klaus Review: Putting an Animated Spin on Santa Netflix's Christmas offerings get an animated upgrade in this familiar but handsomely hand-drawn take on the Santa story.
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Review: Mr. Rogers’ Radical Kindness Tom Hanks fills the loafers of childhood's kindest saint in Marielle Heller's case study of Mr. Rogers' impact.