TV On Becoming a God in Central Florida Recap: Everybody Into the Pool in “A Positive Spin!” Krystal levels several playing fields in an uneven third episode.
TV Succession Recap: The Roys Meet Their Match in “Tern Haven” The Roys make their first moves toward securing Pierce in a tense family-on-family meeting.
Review: “Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles” Gets Lost in Tradition Max Lewkowicz directs a heartfelt but thin documentary about the creation of a timeless Broadway classic.
Monos Review: Flawed Guerilla Filmmaking Alejandro Landes' tense, probing portrait of child soldiers keeps its messages as muddy as its setting.
Haunt Review: “A Quiet Place” Writers Offer Empty Calorie Scares The new film from the writers of A Quiet Place fails to break from convention.
Filmmaker of the Month “Creepshow” Is Stephen King’s Love Letter to Horror Comics Stephen King and George Romero's ode to creepy comic anthologies is a schlocky, joyous riot.
Before You Know It Review: Judith Light Makes the Baby Go Blind Hannah Pearl Utt tackles the timeless theme of family with a solid directorial debut.
Festivals TIFF 2019: “Resin” Offers A Life Stored In Amber Danish director Daniel Joseph Borgman’s coming of age drama is an uncomfortable story of abuse, mental illness, and escape.
TV Younger Recap: Everything’s In Transition In “Forever” A busy finale ends in a matrimonial cliffhanger - minus the stakes.
Features Gender Treachery, or Where Are All the Trans People in “The Handmaid’s Tale”? Hulu's patriarchal sci-fi dystopia can't quite bring itself to explore what happens outside the cis experience.
TV Undone Review: Amazon’s Rotoscoped Drama Feels Revolutionary Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Kate Purdy poignantly swim through the recesses of time, animation and the mind in an ingenious new series.
Filmmaker of the Month IT Chapter Two Review: Flailing Like a Hapless Clown The second half of Andy Muschietti's Stephen King adaptation sinks under its mishmash of tones.
Features September’s Filmmaker of the Month: Stephen King With the upcoming release of IT: Chapter Two, we traverse the long, creepy road down the various filmic adaptations of Stephen King's work.
TV Unbelievable Review: A Complicated, Convoluted Search for Truth Netflix's new miniseries illustrates the painful, ugly road to justice after a sexual assault.
TV On Becoming a God Recap: Confronting “The Gloomy-Zoomies” Krystal finally understands the gravity of her situation in a bleak second episode.
25 Years of “Milk Money,” the Weirdest Romantic Comedy Ever Made What do you get when your meet cute involves horny tweens and questionable boundaries? This thing.
Love, Antosha Review: Portrait of an Actor Gone Too Soon Garret Price processes the untimely death of Anton Yelchin through an intimate look at the actor's mind, process, and struggles.
TV Review: “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance” Is a Sprawling High Fantasy Prequel The Jim Henson Company makes a stellar return to form in Netflix's epic, ten-episode prequel to the classic 1982 film.
TV Younger Recap: Hasty Decisions Hold Back “Holding Out For A SHero” The love triangle is firmly back on the table as Younger preps for its finale.
TV Carnival Row Review: Amazon Loses Itself in Faerie Tales Brilliant production design and strong lead performances get bogged down in too much worldbuilding in Amazon's high-budget fantasy series.
Falling Inn Love Review: Love, New Zealand Style There's cheese aplenty in Netflix's latest rom-com, but its Maori cast and Kiwi setting give it some unexpected charms.