Features Totally F***ed Up is more than just “another homo movie” By: Manish Mathur Gregg Araki's collection of vignettes takes the glossy, audience-friendly shine off queer love in the modern world.
Reviews Mad Heidi bores with attempted pre-fab cult filmmaking By: Peter Sobczynski It wants to be sleazy, violent, and fun. In practice, it's dull and exhausting.
Reviews The Flash wastes Michael Keaton, Sasha Calle, and the audience’s time By: Justin Harrison It's a shallow, sour, bizarrely mean cape flick that prioritizes tacky, hollow nostalgia-baiting over fine work from its co-stars.
Reviews Idris Elba & a gimmick can only elevate Hijack so high By: Tim Stevens The AppleTV+ thriller series plays like a rainy day TBS movie stretched over seven episodes.
Reviews The Innocent offers zany pleasures By: Scout Tafoya Louis Garrel's heist comedy is a treat—for its metacontext as much as its craft.
Features The Doom Generation plumbs the outsider consciousness to the bitter end Gregg Araki dissects how identity turns to apathy in his hyper-stylized second part of the Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy.
Reviews Stan Lee offers a surface-level but agreeable look at a comics legend By: Lisa Laman Leaning so hard on the man himself makes Stan Lee a fitting tribute, for better and for worse.
Reviews Blue Jean tells an important tale, clumsily By: Michael Snydel The film is unwilling to transcend its boundaries in its take on Thatcher era homophobia.
Festivals Tribeca 2023: Rather By: Peter Sobczynski Frank Marshall's documentary on the legendary newsman too often goes softer than the anchorman ever would.
Reviews Elemental finds Pixar soggy and without a spark By: Shannon Campe The latest offering suggests the company needs to break new ground if it wants to remain America's first name in innovative animation.
Reviews The Blackening can’t survive expansion By: Peter Sobczynski The feature-length adaptation of the satirical horror short falls short on scares and laughs.
Recap In its season premiere, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds affirms that Spock is no ordinary Vulcan By: Andrew Bloom Season 2’s debut sidelines the senior officers for a Spock-centered adventure that pays tribute to his Vulcan bearing but also his undeniable humanity.
Reviews Past Lives is a tender, subtle romance about what it means to be meant to be By: Gena Radcliffe Celine Song makes an unforgettable feature debut with a bittersweet drama in which a reunion between old friends brings unexpected emotions.
Reviews Cruel Summer Season 2 sees the series take things a little slower this year By: Tim Stevens Perhaps the heat is getting to the Freeform series as its second outing remains silly overblown fun, but at a lesser pace.
Reviews The Crowded Room echoes with unfulfilled promise By: Tim Stevens Tom Holland and Amanda Seyfried do the work but are hamstrung by cliché and overvaluing surprise over character development.
Reviews Based on a True Story is darkly funny look at true crime obsession By: Megan Sunday Peacock presents a bloody, clever satire about America's favorite documentary genre.
Recap None of us get a perfect end, not even Ted Lasso The series closes on a heartfelt episode that nonetheless reveals flaws and disappointments.
Reviews In Asteroid City, Wes Anderson reflects on his own actors and style By: Scout Tafoya Anderson's latest is maybe his most reflective and curious film yet, a reflection of the ways he keeps old Hollywood forms of storytelling and acting alive.
Reviews Transformers: Rise of the Beasts has little bite By: Leo Brady Though it's a slight improvement on its predecessors, the fightin' robot franchise still feels stale & tired.
Reviews Chile ’76 deftly mixes domestic drama and political thriller By: Matt Cipolla Manuela Martelli explores the ripple effects of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in her first film, a sly, evasive genre mashup.
Reviews Reality traps itself By: Soham Gadre The film's reliance on accuracy leaves little room for artistry.