Columns Box Office Report: “Spider-Man: Far From Home” Breaks the Summer-Season Doldrums The box office performance of Spider-Man: Far From Home helps drag a slower movie summer out of its funk, while Toy Story 4 keeps chugging along.
Features “Reservoir Dogs” is Quentin Tarantino’s Bloody Rosetta Stone Quentin Tarantino's breakout debut feature is a bloody distillation of his best and worst instincts.
Ophelia Review: Retelling the Hamlet Story from a Female Lens Frailty, thy name definitely ain’t “woman” in this feminist retelling of Hamlet.
TV Stranger Things 3 Review: Mall Madness in Hawkins Netflix's acclaimed horror-nostalgia series returns for a third season of high-stakes blockbuster television.
Review: “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am” Chronicles One of America’s Greatest Writers Timothy Greenfield-Sanders lets Morrison’s genius speak for itself.
Features July’s Filmmaker of the Month: Quentin Tarantino With his ninth film coming out this month, we look back on the indie titan and his deeply metatextual approach to cinema.
News “Annabelle Comes Home” Fails to Scare Up Big Box Office Returns Last weekend saw poor performance for the latest Conjuring flick, in a summer of diminishing returns for franchise sequels.
Features Amor Vincit Omnia: The Radical Sentimentality of “Sense8” The Wachowskis took their high-concept empathy to TV with a gloriously ambitious Netflix show that was gone far too soon.
Features “Jupiter Ascending” Is the Wachowskis’ Big, Silly Cinematic Swan Song The Wachowskis' last theatrical film to date -- a space opera with Channing Tatum as a roller-skating wolf man -- is one of their most ambitiously corny efforts yet.
Wild Rose Review: A Star Is Born (But Not Much Else) Jessie Buckley rocks the stage in a country-fied music drama that treads too-familiar territory outside its Scottish stage.
TV Younger Recap: “The Unusual Suspect” Sends Up True Crime With Daggers And Drama There's plenty of backstabbing as the board is set for a Kelsey vs. Charles showdown.
Features Countdown to Goodbye: An Unofficial Modern Queer Trilogy A look at three unforgettable portrayals of love & heartbreak to suit all your tearjerker needs.
Spider-Man Far From Home Review: Peter Parker’s European Vacation It doesn't reach the swinging heights of Homecoming, but Jon Watts' follow-up gets Marvel's Phase Four off to a charming enough start.
Features Getting Lost in the Inscrutable “Cloud Atlas” The Wachowskis’ most polarizing film offers an emotional payoff -- if you’re willing to invest the time & attention.
Features I Think About You, Too: “Killing Eve” & Bisexual Representation The quirky BBC drama fills a need for bisexual characters on TV, while still remaining coy on the subject.
Midsommar Review: Death and Grief in the Summer Sun Ari Aster's followup to Hereditary is a sun-dappled nightmare that finds liberation amongst the flames.
Yesterday Review: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Dumb Richard Curtis envisions a world without The Beatles, then promptly ignores it in favor of yet another treacly love story.
Annabelle Comes Home Review: Conjuring Sequel Serves Up Lazy Scares The ostensibly classy Conjuring series turns into a predictable haunted-house spookfest.
Features Remembering the Candy-Coated Spectacle of “Speed Racer” The Wachowskis' kaleidoscopic 2008 adaptation of the clasic '60s anime is as bright, bold and weird as the rest of their late-period output.
Podcasts Jim Gaffigan and Miranda Bailey on “Being Frank”‘s 90s Humor and Messy Moral Questions We speak to the star and director of the new indie comedy Being Frank about the difficulties in generating empathy within adultery.
“Pasolini” Is an Iconoclastic Biopic for an Iconoclastic Director Abel Ferrara eulogizes fellow scandalizer Pier Paolo Pasolini in a suitably grimy tone poem featuring Willem Dafoe.