Features Once Upon a Time In Hollywood Review: Tarantino’s Lullaby For ’60s Tinseltown Quentin Tarantino's ninth film is a sun-soaked return to his roots, an energetic elegy for Old Hollywood that plays fast and loose with its history.
Fantasia 2019 Fantasia 2019: “Satanic Panic” Serves Up a Hot Slice of Evil Chelsea Stardust directs Grady Hendrix’s gruesomely funny take on devil-worshiping suburbanites.
Fantasia 2019 Fantasia 2019: “Ode to Nothing” Is a Grim Poem on Loneliness Dwein Ruedas Baltazar's third feature is a morbidly beautiful tale filled with unexpectedly rich textures.
News Trailer: Tom Hanks slips on Mr. Rogers’ cardigan in “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” Tom Hanks charms as Fred Rogers in the trailer for Marielle Heller's A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, out in theaters this Thanksgiving.
Fantasia 2019 Fantasia 2019: “Sator” Offers Big Chills on No Budget Jordan Graham's minimalist supernatural horror will get under your skin in ways you won't see coming.
TV The Boys Review: Amazon’s Superhero Series Struggles to Grow Up Karl Urban and crew strike back at asshole superheroes in Amazon's grimly atonal series.
Columns Criterion Corner: “Do the Right Thing”, “1984”, “Klute”, “The BRD Trilogy” Race, control, and patriarchy reign in July's offerings from Criterion.
Fantasia 2019 Fantasia 2019: In “We Are Little Zombies” Grief is the Final Boss Makoto Nagahisa's wild video game flavored comedy about a group of jaded orphans is like nothing you've ever seen.
Fantasia 2019 Fantasia 2019: “Shadow” is Zhang Yimou’s Monochrome Wuxia Epic The director of House of Flying Daggers and Hero drains the color from a Shakespearean take of double identities to crisply symbolic effect.
Review: “Leaving Home, Coming Home” Shines a Light on Robert Frank Gerald Fox’s 2005 documentary on the acclaimed documentarian finally sees the light of day.
TV Younger Recap: No One Wins With “Stiff Competition” It's Charles vs Liza as the rivalry between upstart publishers turns anything but fun.
Fantasia 2019 Fantasia 2019: “SHe” Cobbles Together Patriarchal Hell on Heels Zhou Shengwei turns shoes into symbols for the systemic oppression of women in capitalist systems in this dizzying, expressionistic experiment.
Fantasia 2019 Fantasia 2019: “The Wonderland” Is a Sweet Ghibli-Esque Fantasy Keiichi Hara's candy-colored fairy tale is certainly a feast for the eyes, even if its story is skin deep.
Sword of Trust Review: Mumblecore Meets Civil War The South rises again thanks to the effortless comic charms of Lynn Shelton and Marc Maron.
Fantasia 2019 Fantasia 2019: “Porno” Goes For The Crotch The horror comedy tackles sexual repression amidst plenty of penis gore.
Fantasia 2019 Fantasia 2019: “Critters Attack!” Pretty Much Bites The latest in the horror-comedy franchise is a cynical, half-hearted dud.
Features Are You Not Scared Enough?: “The Blair Witch Project” Turns 20 The no budget fake documentary that ushered in the "found footage" craze still holds up, like it or not.
Features The Tarantino-Heavy “Four Rooms” Needs a ‘Do Not Disturb’ Sign Even with segments by 90s indie luminaries like Robert Rodriguez, Allison Anders and Quentin Tarantino, Four Rooms is too herky-jerk to work.
TV “Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein” Review: It’s (Barely) Alive David Harbour & a game cast try their best, but can't save this rush job of a Netflix mockumentary.
Columns “True Lies” is a Messy Deconstruction of the Alpha-Male Action Hero 2019 is a year chock-full of James Cameron film anniversaries, and we start with one of his more flawed, but deconstructionist action flicks.
Fantasia 2019 Fantasia 2019: “Come To Daddy” Mixes Genres To Thrilling Effect Elijah Wood has a rough few days in Ant Timpson's directorial feature debut.