Features How Quirk Killed Tim Burton’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” Burton's dark, misguided adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic children's novel ages particularly poorly among the rest of his works.
The Aftermath Review: Sumptuous but Surface-Level Melodrama While Keira Knightley and cast give off some elegant looks, this post-WWII costume drama floats passively along the surface of its subject.
The Hummingbird Project Review: Tackling Low-Latency Trading at a Snail’s Pace Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgard try to make millions in milliseconds in this plodding critique of capitalism.
The Mustang Review: Finding Unbridled Freedom in Captivity Matthias Schoenaerts learns to tame the beast within in this sensitive Belgian drama about a prisoner and his horse.
The Dirt Review: Eat Your Heart Out, Bohemian Rhapsody Netflix's Motley Crue biopic falls along familiar music biopic tropes, but with all the band's warts unashamedly on display.
TV The Orville Recap: “Lasting Impressions” Doesn’t Leave Much of a Mark The Orville coasts through a Gordon-heavy episode that sees him falling in love with the simulated recreation of a 21st-century woman (Leighton Meester).
Us Review: Jordan Peele Forces Us To Look In the Mirror Jordan Peele's latest doesn't have the structural and subtextual heft of Get Out, but it's a chilling genre exercise anchored by a mesmerizing Lupita Nyong'o performance.
Relaxer Review: A Grimy, ’90s-Nostalgia Fueled Endurance Test Joel Potrykus' comically grim indie shows the grotesque end result of staying on your couch playing video games all day.
Features How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late-Period Tim Burton Tim Burton's recent films are dismissed as confused (dark) shadows of his career heights, but they contain brief glimmers of the filmmaker's return to form.
Features With “Big Fish,” Tim Burton Told His Last, Greatest Tall Tale Tim Burton's last great film was a mythic tall tale that anchored his dark whimsy in something more sentimental and moving.
Transit Review: A Haunting Journey Down a Road to Nowhere Christian Petzold's occupation drama is a fascinating, beguiling tale, with stark performances and an intriguing modernization of 1940s material to the modern day.
“Captive State” Succeeds As A Spy Thriller, But Fails Its Characters Rupert Wyatt's dark sci-fi allegory about a Chicago occupied by sinister alien forces features some smart, subversive sequences but lacks strong characters.
Triple Threat Review: East Asian Action Stars Team Up For High-Kicking Mayhem A cast of incredible action stars (Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Scott Adkins, Michael Jai White) team up for a fun, if overstuffed, ride.
Features “Sleepy Hollow” Is The Perfect Mid-Point Between Early and Late Tim Burton Situated halfway between Tim Burton's Gothic beginnings and contemporary epics, Sleepy Hollow is a forgotten, thoroughly enjoyable Hammer Horror homage.
TV Brooklyn Nine-Nine Recap: An Adoption GAP(E) in “Gintars” Ike Barinholtz guest stars in this episode that tests the limits of Boyle's parenting skills, but doesn't really mine enough jokes out of its premise.
Triple Frontier Review: Twice the Stars, Half the Impact JC Chandor's rogue-military actioner is dull as dishwater, and wastes its cast of rugged character actors.
Wonder Park Review: You Must Be This Bland to Enjoy This Ride Nickelodeon's latest family film is a boilerplate adventure that roller-coasts on its own basic competence.
TV Queer Eye Season 3 Moves Cities And Loses a Touch of Its Fierceness While the third season plays it a bit safer with its "heroes," the Fab Five still deliver the same uplifting, French-tucked energy to their makeovers.
Features Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” is All Sorts of Delightful and Scary Henry Selick's stop-motion holiday fable is a spooky classic, thanks to Tim Burton's macabre quirks and an array of catchy tunes.
Features “Ed Wood” is Tim Burton’s Deeply Personal Ode to Filmmaking Misfits Burton's most deeply personal film is his humanistic, black-and-white celebration of the Worst Filmmaker of All Time.
Film Review: Netflix’s “Girl” is an Obscene Cis Fantasy of Trans Suffering Netflix's latest festival darling dangerously fetishizes the trans experience and reduces it to a leering obsession with genitalia.