Reviews Carnival Row Season 2 struggles to take flight By: Beau North The long-delayed fantasy series wanders itself into a bad end in Amazon’s alleyways.
Reviews Don’t bother calling Animal Control…yet By: Tim Stevens For now, FOX’s new ensemble sitcom is all promise, no delivery.
Recap Star Trek: Picard channels The Next Generation’s past, but strains to justify its future By: Andrew Bloom A reunion among the Enterprise-D faithful and a mysterious new threat set the stage for a nostalgia-heavy final season.
Reviews Hello Tomorrow! can’t stop working the con even when it gets ridiculous By: Tim Stevens Don’t fall for AppleTV+’s retro-futurist tale, no matter how good it looks.
Reviews Marlowe aims big but ends up sleepy By: Justin Harrison Neil Jordan and Liam Neeson's take on Raymond Chandler's PI occasionally offers a lovely spark, but never enough that bidding it farewell is a sad affair.
Reviews Sharper lacks some much-needed edge By: Gena Radcliffe Despite its solid performances & elegant look, the Apple TV+ thriller mostly falls flat.
Reviews Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania shrinks and shrugs through another Marvel adventure By: Clint Worthington Marvel's most fleet-footed subfranchise disintegrates in the face of more empty franchise-building, a committed Jonathan Majors aside.
Recap The Last of Us sees the best-laid plans fall to ruin once again By: Megan Sunday Ellie and Joel seek to flee Kansas City with the town’s Most Wanted as the city shakes up its own secrets in a sobering episode.
Reviews Sundance 2023: Divinity & The Accidental Getaway Driver By: Peter Sobczynski Divinity disappoints while The Accidental Getaway Driver surprises in this selection of genre offerings from the fest.
Reviews Sundance 2023: A Little Prayer & L’Immensita By: Peter Sobczynski A pair of films about family explore the ties that bind and tear apart.
Anniversaries The Wedding Singer at 25: one of the best rom-coms of the 90s still charms today A look back at the sweet & quirky comedy that showed a different, far less obnoxious side of Adam Sandler.
Reviews At Midnight is a likable but limp romantic comedy By: Beau North Though it has its charms, the Paramount+ original feels a little stale.
Reviews Harley Quinn gets to solidify its greatest strengths with A Very Problematic Valentine’s Day Special By: Lisa Laman A smorgasbord of Valentine’s Day shenanigans allows viewers to appreciate all the show's humor and heart.
Festivals Sundance 2023: Midnight Selections By: Erin Brady Sundance's Midnight section offers up a trio of films--My Animal, Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls, and Talk to Me--with strong ambitions, if not always executions.
Reviews Magic Mike’s Last Dance isn’t the swan song it wants to be By: Marshall Estes Despite some great dance sequences and charismatic performances from Channing Tatum and Salma Hayek, the conclusion to the trilogy is more “Meh” than “Magic”.
Reviews You Season 4 reinvents itself abroad By: Shannon Campe Netflix's dark stalker dramedy heads across the pond to encounter a new strain of awful rich people.
Reviews A mother’s love hides a dark secret in Attachment By: Gena Radcliffe The Shudder film successfully merges a queer romance with Jewish folk horror.
Reviews Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur lifts off with a roar By: Tim Stevens The striking animated series aims for a younger set and mostly connects.
Festivals Sundance 2023: 20 Days in Mariupol, Bad Press, Twice Colonized & Against the Tide By: Peter Sobczynski This year's documentary category covered everything from Ukraine to freedom of the press to the dwindling fishing industry.
Recap The Last of Us sets grief and laughter side by side By: Megan Sunday Joel and Ellie hit the road and learn that hell is other people when they find themselves trapped in Kansas City.
Reviews Sundance 2023: Fairyland & Joyland By: Soham Gadre Two tales of fathers and repression explore the importance of self-realization and the cost of parental absence.