Charlie Says Review: The Ultimate Bad Trip, Man Mary Harron's take on the Manson Family features strong performances, but brings little else to the true crime table.
Tolkien Review: There and Back Again (and Again) Middle-earth or middle-of-the-road? Dome Karukoski's take on the Lord of the Rings author's early life doesn't even try to break the biopic mold.
Pokémon Detective Pikachu Review: The Maltese Talonflame The Pokémon franchise takes some crazy swings with a noir adventure that admirably commits to its universe, but might only be for hardcore Poke-fans.
Meeting Gorbachev Review: Herzog Makes the Political Too Personal Werner Herzog's look at the Soviet Union's last leader is fascinatingly apolitical, but lacks insight as a result.
TV Game of Thrones Recap: “The Last of the Starks” Backpedals As It Moves to the Show’s End Westeros finds itself divided on who should lead it, in a frustrating feature-length episode that walks back vital character development.
Features Years Before Studio Ghibli, “The Castle of Cagliostro” Set the Foundation for Hayao Miyazaki’s Work Before Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki honed his craft on one of the liveliest anime action-adventures of all time.
Features Sixteen Candles at 35: A Bittersweet Birthday Full of racist jokes & sexual assault subplots, John Hughes' teen rom-com classic has aged like bad cheese. But is there anything worth saving about it?
TV State of the Union Review: Fast-Talking Through a Marriage on the Brink Chris O'Dowd and Rosamund Pike exchange hyper-articulate, rapid-fire dialogue in an intimate, occasionally dry series from Stephen Frears.
UglyDolls Review: Cute, Cuddly, and Full of Fluff While this animated kid's film carries its titular dolls' message of loving your imperfections, the end result is still a little too safe.
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile Review: the Dreamiest Serial Killer in All the Land A surprisingly solid performance by Zac Efron is wasted on an uneven drama about why chicks dig Ted Bundy.
The Intruder Review: A Crazy, Potential So-Bad-It’s-Good Classic A bat-crap crazy home invasion thriller, The Intruder spices up its hokey script and brain-dead characters with a bug-eyed turn from Dennis Quaid.
Ask Dr. Ruth Review: Won’t You Be My Consenting Sexual Partner? Hulu's new documentary on the life of pioneering sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer balances lifelong tragedies with her undying sense of joy.
Long Shot Review: Rogen and Theron Spin the Stoner Rom-Com Into Gold Against all odds, Jonathan Levine manages to transform a stoner comedy with Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron into a charmingly sweet political romance.
TV Game of Thrones Recap: “The Long Night” Is Dark – Very Dark – And Full of Terrors The war between the living and the dead reaches its apex in the long-awaited, but fairly boilerplate, climax of Game of Thrones.
Features Love, Lust & Memory in “Eve’s Bayou” Kasi Lemmons' wistful, eerie, criminally underrated directorial debut features complex characters & asks unsettling questions about memory & perspective.
Features Five Years Later, Ava DuVernay’s “Selma” Remains a Powerful Document of the Civil Rights Movement Five years on, Ava DuVernay's gripping account of the march from Selma to Washington stresses that MLK's fight is far from over today.
Podcasts Director Patrick Wang on Art, Inspiration, and the Community of “A Bread Factory, Pts. 1 & 2” The Houston-born filmmaker talks about his latest opus, the value of arts in small communities, and the joys/challenges of self-distributing your films.
TV Brooklyn Nine-Nine Recap: Time Is Of The Essence in “Ticking Clocks” The Nine-Nine deals with an impending threat in an ambitious, 24-like real-time episode featuring guest star Sean Astin
TV The Orville Season Finale Recap: Seth Goes Full Star Wars in “The Road Not Taken” Seth MacFarlane takes his love letter to Star Trek in a decidedly Star Wars direction, as The Orville closes out season 2 with an alternate dark timeline.
TV Chambers Review: Netflix’s Latest Offers Striking Visual Imagery and Familiar Tropes Chambers, the latest supernatural drama from Netflix, is gorgeously shot, but its tale of a haunted heart transplant loses the script pretty quickly.
Features “Under the Silver Lake” Hates Its Target Audience, and That’s Why I Love It David Robert Mitchell's latest might just be reviled precisely because it prods at the solipsism of the film bros who tend to identify with it.