Paddleton Review: Duplass & Romano Make Up Games to Defy Death Mumblecore moves into middle-age with a delightfully understated Netflix sleeper about two neighbors, a cancer diagnosis, and a made-up game.
Review: “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” Sends the Series Off on a High Note Closing out Dreamworks' trilogy of high-flying Viking adventures, The Hidden World offers a satisfying cap to the trials of Hiccup and Toothless.
Awards And The Oscar Goes To: A Drinking Guide for Oscar 2019 If you're planning on watching this year's highly controversial Oscars ceremony, we'll help you drink your way through the proceedings.
Features Reality Bites at 25: Generation X Deserved Better A quarter of a century later, Reality Bites offers a frustratingly incomplete portrait of the MTV generation.
Alita Battle Angel Review: A Wild, Ambitious Sci-Fi Adventure Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron adapt the 90s anime to full, Uncanny Valley effect, and if you're into that sort of thing it excels.
TV The Orville Recap: Stigma and Murder Turn “Deflectors” Into a Darker Valentine’s Episode Old flames, bad breakups, and a murder mystery fills up a serviceable Orville that deals with the limits of cultural pluralism.
TV Brooklyn Nine-Nine Recap: Hair (And Mommy Issues) Dominate “The Crime Scene” Jake and Rosa go on their own to solve a single case in that rare Brooklyn Nine-Nine two-hander that showcases Stephanie Beatriz's comedic talents.
Interviews More of a Comment, Really…: Interview with Director Shawn Convey (Among Wolves) Clint sits down with the documentary filmmaker to talk about his observations of post-war Bosnia and the fascinating subjects of his story.
Among Wolves Review: Overcoming Communal Trauma With Harleys and Hope Shawn Convey's doc about a Bosnian biker gang on a humanitarian mission is a meditative mood piece on war, trauma, and purpose.
Isn’t It Romantic Review: An Instant Postmodern Rom-Com Classic Rebel Wilson shines in a funny. insightful look at the rhythms of the rom-com.
TV Umbrella Academy Review: Gerard Way’s Comic Gets a Faithful, If Languid, Adaptation Netflix's latest original series follows a dysfunctional family of superheroes fighting the apocalypse - and each other.
Happy Death Day 2U Review: This Time, With Feeling Switching from slasher to sci-fi comedy, the sequel to the first Happy Death Day is a light, breezy delight.
Hall of Faces Hall of Faces: Who’s the Greatest Character on 30 Rock? In our first episode of Hall of Faces, we debate which 30 Rock character deserves a spot in our pantheon of great TV characters.
Columns What to Watch on Streaming: Week of February 15, 2018 Superheroes, loud women, and realistic space opera serve as your streaming recommendations this week.
TV Brooklyn Nine-Nine Recap: Diminishing Returns for “A Tale Of Two Bandits” Doug Judy returns for a less than stellar season six showcase for Jake's recurring foil.
High Flying Bird Review: Soderbergh Games the System With a Searing Capitalist Critique The Tarell Alvin McRaney-penned basketball drama highlights the commodification of young black men both on and off the court.
“The LEGO Movie 2” Review: Everything is About Half as Awesome While it maintains the same dazzling, frenetic charm of the original LEGO Movie, The Second Part doesn't manage to recapture the miracle of the first.
The Amityville Murders Review: A Low-Budget Game of Horror Film Mad Libs Diane Franklin and Paul Ben-Victor play the doomed DeFeos in yet another Amityville remake that's content to run (and scare) in place.
Festivals Sundance 2/3 Dispatch: The Souvenir, One Child Nation, Monos Our Sundance coverage wraps up with a triple feature of a 1980s art-school personal essay, a documentary from China, and a haunting child-soldier tale.
Features “I’m Not a Girl”: Janet, Nonbinary Representation and “The Good Place” D'arcy Carden's Janet continues to be one of The Good Place's best characters, but her status as unlikely nonbinary icon brings up a few narrative wrinkles.
Festivals Sundance 2/2 Dispatch: Apollo 11, Corporate Animals Day 6 of our Sundance coverage sees a wide gulf in quality, with a stunning doc about the Apollo 11 mission and a stunted dark corporate comedy.