Festivals Tribeca 2022: Hommage is a haunting & uplifting look at female filmmakers By: Ashley Lara Writer & director Shin Su-won weaves an intimate, moving tale of of a filmmaker as she attempts to balance her family & career
Recap “Part 5” takes us down memory lane in an emotional Obi-Wan Kenobi By: Megan Sunday Old faces and new conflicts swirl to the surface in the penultimate episode.
Recap Strange New Worlds uses Spock’s duality to explore the gender divide By: Andrew Bloom A superb non-binary guest star helps prove the franchise’s old rhythms are still fit for modern times.
Reviews Lightyear takes one of Pixar’s iconic characters to infinity and beyond By: Marshall Estes The Toy Story spinoff balances humor, heart, action, and a little existential dread in a sci-fi adventure for all ages.
Reviews Adam Sandler learns some Hustle in a surprisingly tactile sports drama By: Michael Frank Jeremiah Zager's passion project is an ode to Philly and the NBA that makes tremendous use of Sandler and its supporting cast of NBA all-stars.
Reviews Neptune Frost is a haunting slice of sci-fi musical Afrofuturism By: Michael Snydel Saul Williams' and Anisia Uzeyman's genre/time-hopping multimedia project is occasionally perplexing but nothing short of mesmerizing.
Recap Star Trek: Strange New Worlds & the morals of a world resigned to suffering By: Andrew Bloom A visit to one of the franchise’s traditional allegory-filled worlds holds a mirror up to the real one.
Recap “Part 4” takes Obi-Wan Kenobi into the belly of the beast By: Megan Sunday It’s Obi-Wan to the rescue with a few stumbles along the way in an action-filled episode.
Reviews Jurassic World Dominion is a failure on a global scale By: Sean Price Colin Trevorrow injects plenty of dinos and nostalgia to the series, but not much else.
Festivals 10 films we’re dying to see at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival Some of the titles we're most looking forward to, from docs about pranksters to revivals of Abel Ferrara classics.
Reviews The Phantom of the Open tells us that winning isn’t everything By: Megan Sunday Mark Rylance reaches for the moon in this charming tale about the “The World’s Worst Golfer.”
Reviews Crimes of the Future offers up the human body as grotesque & beautiful art By: Gena Radcliffe David Cronenberg returns to form in an elliptical and fascinating look at a dystopia where self-mutilation replaces sex
Anniversaries The Untouchables at 35: Mucking with the Gs We look back at Brian De Palma's rapturous crime thriller, one of his most invigorating grasps at mainstream success.
Anniversaries Smokey and the Bandit at 45:”What the hell is the world coming to?” By: Peter Sobczynski Hal Needham's good-old-boy romp is still as silly and dumb and charming as it was nearly a half-century ago.
Recap Star Trek: Strange New Worlds blends high art with hijinks in its most fun episode By: Andrew Bloom A body swap, some romantic silliness, and a chance for senior officers to play hooky buoy a lighter outing for the series.
Recap Obi-Wan Kenobi’s third episode gives us the matchup we’ve been looking for By: Megan Sunday The Jedi Master reckons with the specter of his old apprentice in one of the most exciting episodes of the show yet.
Reviews Physical continues to put a dark spin on “girl power” in season 2 By: Gena Radcliffe How do you solve a problem like Sheila Rubin?
Reviews Three tries later, Love, Death & Robots enters its finest form By: Nguyên Lê The latest batch of mind-blowing animation from Netflix's sci-fi anthology might well be its most creative.
Reviews Now & Then has style, but its thrills are strictly intermittent By: Lisa Laman Murderous secrets bubble to the surface in a show whose whole cannot match its best parts.
Recap Obi-Wan Kenobi sees more shadows of the past in Part II By: Megan Sunday The Jedi in hiding steps out for a daring rescue in a tense and emotional episode.
Recap In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, death gives life new meaning By: Andrew Bloom A series of close calls with the Gorn brings out the best in the crew of the Enterprise.