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.
Review: “Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love” Is Hardly A Thousand Kisses Deep The one and only Leonard Cohen turns flat in Nick Broomfield’s latest, and it brings down his better half as a result.
Fantasia 2019 Fantasia 2019: “Little Monsters” Is The Perfect Blend of Laughs, Gore and Taylor Swift Abe Forsythe's Aussie horror comedy strands a school field trip in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, to delightful results.
Fantasia 2019 Fantasia 2019: “Sons of Denmark” Haunts With Timely Political Violence Ulaa Salim's tense, complex political thriller shines a light on the very modern terrors of far-right nationalism, and the radical violence that rises in response.
“The Farewell” is A Poignantly Funny Goodbye Culture clash and end-of-life issues collide in Lulu Wang's scintillatingly heartfelt drama "based on an actual lie."
Fantasia 2019 The Art of Self-Defense Review: Black Belt or Red Pill? Jesse Eisenberg is a twerp falling down the toxic-masculinity rabbit hole in Riley Stearns' insightful black comedy.
TV Younger Recap: “An Inside Glob” Delivers Milk, Garlic And Matron Lit The truth about Mercury is out as Kelsey catches Charles and Zane in the act.
Björk’s Acting Debut “The Juniper Tree” Is a Beautifully Grimm Fairy Tale Nietzchka Keene's adaptation of the Grimm fairy tale is a haunting black-and-white showcase for Björk.
Fantasia 2019 Fantasia 2019: “Sadako” is a Middling Return to the Ring Franchise Fantasia kicks off its opening night with an atmospheric, if slightly subdued, entry in the Ringu series.
Features “From Dusk Till Dawn” and Tarantino the Actor Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's grindhouse vampire thriller is a fascinating but flawed glimpse into their collaboration.
The Lion King Review: This Pride Is a Sin Never has something looked so photorealistic and felt so fake.
Features “Nocturama”, Or How Watching A Movie In 2019 is Hell Streaming services grant unprecedented access to films normally outside the reach of most moviegoers. But can the technical experience of watching them do them a disservice?
Features “Midsommar” and the Horror of Human Empathy In Ari Aster's latest, sharing each other's emotions is scarier than being alone.
Features With “Pulp Fiction,” Tarantino Resisted the Mundane Quentin Tarantino's classic 1994 new-cool drama set the stage for a new era of independent film, and saw the end of his own sense of mercy.
Stuber Review: Uber Cop Comedy Won’t Earn Five Stars Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista are their typical superlative selves, which just barely saves an otherwise tedious high-concept cop comedy
Features Tarantino’s Worst Excesses Come Out In Tony Scott’s “True Romance” One of the few Tarantino scripts not directed by the man himself, Tony Scott's "True Romance" is a tragically too-cool crime thriller that doesn't age well.