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.
TV Now Apocalypse Review: Gregg Araki Pens a Queer Love Letter To LA Gregg Araki's ten-episode sex comedy for Starz serves up a heaping helping of sex, twentysomething angst, and doomsday prophecies.
Knife + Heart Review: A Gay Porn Slasher for the Whole Family Bloody and queer in equal measure, Knife + Heart is a searingly intriguing gay porn slasher from Yann Gonzalez about horror, love and allyship.
Features With “Batman Returns”, Tim Burton Unleashed A Dark Superhero Circus Tim Burton's superhero sequel saw the endlessly strange auteur run away with big studio money to make the most relentlessly weird comic book film ever.
Interviews More of a Comment, Really…: The Umbrella Academy’s Justin Min on Playing a Superpowered Ghost The actor behind the most mysterious member of Netflix's Umbrella Academy talks about life as a superpowered ghost, and what might await him in season 2.
TV Brooklyn Nine-Nine Recap: “The Golden Boy” Deserves To Be Hung On The Stairs Lin-Manuel Miranda guest starts on a dull episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, as Amy's overachieving brother with whom she's irrationally angry.
TV The Orville Recap: Gordon Tries to Stop the “Blood of Patriots” from Spilling One of The Orville's most explicitly comedic characters gets his moment in the sun with a familiar, nuanced episode about the lingering animosity of war.
TV American Gods Season 2 Review: More Gods & Gore, But Something’s Missing The second season of Starz' hit Neil Gaiman adaptation is back with a new showrunner, a shaken-up cast, and a more aimless tone.
Birds of Passage Review: Balancing Tradition and the Modern World The Colombian crime thriller serves as an intriguing, culturally relevant twist on an age-old story, with an eye to highlighting Wayuu cultural traditions.
Captain Marvel Review: Marvel Takes the Origin Story Higher, Further, Faster Marvel's first female-led superhero film is a modest but meaningful success.
TV Good Girls Season 2 Review: Flipping The Game Just Isn’t Enough The second season of NBC's Breaking Bad-with-moms show disappointingly treads water, keeping its three leads running in place while feigning change.