Godzilla: King of the Monsters Review: Young, Dumb, and Full of Kaiju Michael Dougherty's entry in the Americanized kaiju franchise is frightfully brain-dead, even for a summer blockbuster.
Features How “Game of Thrones” Dropped the Ball Hard In Its Final Season Looking back on the final season of HBO's hit show, it's impossible not to see the many ways the showrunners let down their story and the characters in it.
Features The Simple Pleasures of “Ponyo” One of Hayao Miyazaki's lighter, sentimental films is a celebration of ordinary life & parental love as seen through the eyes of a child.
TV “Deadwood: The Movie” Lets HBO’s Epic Western Ride Into the Sunset David Milch's long-awaited conclusion to his dark Western series hugs fans like a warm blanket, but be careful - it might be covered in smallpox.
Cannes 2019 Cannes Review: “Little Joe” Offers Modest “Black Mirror” Vibes Jessica Hausner's sci-fi yarn about plants that emit happy drugs doesn't branch out as widely as one would like.
Cannes 2019 Cannes Review: “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” Paints a Picture of Incredible Passion Céline Sciamma's queer period romance is an intimate visual feast, filled with uncanny empathy and admirable aesthetics.
Cannes 2019 Cannes Review: Pedro Almodóvar Interrogates the “Pain and Glory” of His Own Career As self-reflective as it is starkly modernist, Pedro Almodóvar’s latest is navel gazing at its finest.
Features “The Day After Tomorrow” and Disaster Flicks as Political Polemic Fifteen years after its release, Roland Emmerich's environmental disaster film is no less corny, but its warnings about climate change ring depressingly more urgent.
The Ingenious Implications of A24’s “The Souvenir” Joanna Hogg tells the story of a young artists' maturity with an airtight structure and incredible performances.
The Tomorrow Man Review: A Blandly Quirky Festival-Caliber Romance Noble Jones vies for the title of treacly Sundance-y auteur with his gimmicky romantic drama about a lovelorn doomsday prepper.
Cannes 2019 Cannes Review: “The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil” Delivers Blood-Soaked Korean Action Lee Won-Tae piles on the cheese in this pulpy gangster thriller that rewards mightily, if you're in the right mood.
Cannes 2019 Cannes Review: “Once in Trubchevsk” Uses Domestic Conflict as Cultural Wallpaper Larisa Sadilova's probing drama highlights small-town Russian culture through an opaque lens.
Cannes 2019 Cannes Review: “All About Yves” Takes Its Crazy Premise To Banal Limits It takes some doing to make a movie about a talking fridge boring, but by gum, Benoît Forgeard's messy comedy manages to pull it off.
Interviews Composer Kurt Farquhar on “American Soul”, “Black Lightning”, and Scoring Thirty Years of Television On this week's podcast, we speak with composer Kurt Farquhar, "the musical voice of the BET," about his work on American Soul and Black Lightning.
Booksmart Review: Girls Rule the World – And the Party Olivia Wilde's debut is a gut-busting comedy that celebrates the power of female friendships.
CCFF 2019 The Perfection Review: Classically Camp Netflix's newest in horror is a twisty gorefest that only misses a few notes.
Cannes 2019 Cannes Review: “Atlantics” Is Grippingly Dense Afrofuturist Romance Mati Diop's expansion of her documentary short is a scifi-tinged genre experiment that admirably swings for the fences, even if it doesn't land with complete success.
Cannes 2019 Cannes Review: Ken Loach Dips Back Into the Misery Porn Well With “Sorry We Missed You” Following up I, Daniel Blake with another grim drama about English poverty, Ken Loach spits venom about the dark side of capitalism to mixed results.
Cannes 2019 Cannes Review: “Oh Mercy!” Fumbles Its Arthouse Murder Mystery Arnaud Desplechin shifts gears with an all-too-straightforward cop drama mired in cliche.
Cannes 2019 Cannes Review: Xavier Dolan Returns with the Idiosyncratic “Matthias and Maxime” The off-kilter French-Canadian auteur returns with a resonant if overlong drama that ends just a bit too messily.
TV “All in the Family/The Jeffersons Live”: You Can’t Go Home Again Despite its intent, racism with a laugh track falls flat in the current political climate.