Recap Ray Stevenson elevates Ahsoka’s fourth episode Everyone chases a map to the end of the galaxy, but it is the actor's performance that proves the real prize.
Reviews Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is sincere and heartfelt By: Lisa Laman Though familiar, Aith Alberto’s adaptation of the acclaimed novel will satisfy fans and newcomers alike.
Recap Star Trek: Lower Decks visits Voyager, but finds something better than nostalgia in its season 4 premiere A greatest hits of Voyager’s lesser lights and most infamous moments shows how much our humble lower deckers have grown over the past three years.
Features Navigating the personal and political cinema of Natalia Almada A new set from Icarus Films invites us to explore the Mexican filmmaker's twenty-year-plus body of work.
Features Meg 2: The Trench is a soggy sequel that remembers to be fun too late By: Tim Stevens Wheatley’s latest ends on a gratifyingly silly monster movie third act, but viewers need to suffer through the rest of the film to get there.
Reviews The Wheel of Time Season 2 spins on By: Beau North Prime Video's fantasy series grows darker and more complex in its second go-round.
Features Ranking Criterion’s High School Horror collection The Criterion Channel dives into the unique hell of being a teenager & we’ll tell you which films not to miss.
Recap The New Republic clings to denialism in the face of mounting evidence in Ahsoka’s third episode "Time to Fly" keeps things moving, but might be failing to makes its case to viewers, not just Senators.
Reviews Who Is Erin Carter? Someone delightfully bad at her job By: Tim Stevens The Netflix thriller dares to give viewers a killing machine who isn’t frighteningly competent.
Features Interview: Park Chan-wook on the lingering colors of ‘Stoker’ The renowned director looks back at his unsettling yet stylish coming-of-age tale 10 years later.
Anniversaries Strange Brew is still potent at 40 By: Peter Sobczynski The good-natured 80s comedy celebrating beer & friendship has managed to survive the test of time.
Reviews You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah finds stardom in the Sandler family By: Michael Frank A specific, worthwhile entry into the middle school movie canon.
Features Rebecca proves a pale imitator of its predecessor and the source material By: Shannon Campe Wheatley's adaptation of the classic gothic novel frequently looks lush, but can't back up its visuals
Features Dascha Dauenhauer premieres her exclusive title track from “Golda”: Listen Listen to the ominous, haunting title track from the upcoming Helen Mirren-starring biopic.
Columns What’s New on DVD/Blu-ray in August Asteroid City, Metalocalypse, Impulse, Jon Moritsugu and More!
Anniversaries The World’s End at 10: a look back at Edgar Wright’s most poignant work The final movie in the Cornetto Trilogy successfully merged comedy, sci-fi horror & Gen X pathos.
Recap Ahsoka episodes 1 & 2 start the show off on a lore-heavy but well-paced note By: Megan Sunday Anakin Skywalker's former apprentice and fan favorite Ahsoka gets her own shot at a TV series.
Features A movie breaks out during a firearm stunt reel in Free Fire By: Tim Stevens Wheatley flirts with Tarantino-esque “cool” crime with decidedly different results.
Features High-Rise explores stories of the class system in chaos By: Jon Paul Roberts Wheatley's first encounter with a movie star, Tom Hiddleston, dives deep into humanity's social climbing dark side.
Reviews Landscape with Invisible Hand has lots of ideas, little follow-through By: Scout Tafoya A unique take on alien invasion gets too distracted to say much about any of its preoccupations.
Reviews Strays isn’t fit for human nor beast By: Shannon Campe Homeward Bound but raunchy squanders the writer and the director's talents.