Features Holy Smoke! burns poisoned masculinity but chokes on Orientalist smog By: B.L. Panther Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel deliver powerhouse performances in Jane Campion's cult-deprogramming dramedy, but the script fails in its thoughtless colonialism.
Recap Drag Race’s Moulin Ru-sical is a windmill of emotion By: B.L. Panther Golden Ideas and Golden Tickets make Episode 12 bittersweet entertainment.
Recap Drag Race finally cuts some queens, but the fans are still unlucky By: B.L. Panther This week, the queens lip sync to see who should have gone home last week.
Recap Star Trek: Picard brings back an old friend in a bad way By: Andrew Bloom The search for a key player results in bungled canon and pointless action
Reviews One Perfect Shot chooses careers over craft By: Michael Frank Netflix's documentary series inspired by a popular Twitter feed is disappointingly simplified & too focused on empty director soundbites
Reviews Umma partially succeeds as a horror with texture By: Nguyên Lê For a while, the Zainab Azizi & Sam Raimi-produced title is on par with its skillful lead
Reviews Pachinko is lush, moving & far too short By: Shannon Campe Apple TV+'s extravagant adaptation of the best selling novel suffers from a condensed storyline & underdeveloped characters
Reviews Bridgerton season 2 is a sweet slow burn that satisfies By: Beau North Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the ballroom.
Reviews Starstruck remains luminous in second season By: Megan Sunday Realism and miscommunication continue to make the series a funny, honest must-watch.
Reviews Halo rings true thanks to a fine turn from Pablo Schreiber By: Justin Harrison Paramount's adaptation of the mega-hit video game series shines when digging into the Master Chief's long-suppressed sense of self and the schemes of the galaxy's power players.
Features The Portrait of a Lady sees Jane Campion paint agency, control, and desire By: Beau North Campion followed The Piano with a Henry James adaptation dedicated to the magnificently fraught question of desire or duty.
Features In The Piano, Jane Campion and Holly Hunter navigate silence By: Jon Paul Roberts Campion's multi-Oscar winner studies the thorns of speaking, silence, and desire through impeccable performances.
Festivals SXSW 2022: To Leslie is familiar, but its eye is unflinching and its compassion deep By: Peter Sobczynski Andrea Riseborough and Marc Maron shine in a study of a one-time lottery winner years after her life has gone bust.
Festivals SXSW 2022: The Prank wastes a devilish turn from Rita Moreno By: Peter Sobczynski The living legend's vicious physics teacher is the only part of this dark comedy to make the grade.
Festivals SXSW 2022: Millie Lies Low hits some high notes against appropriately awkward storytelling By: Lisa Laman One bad decision leads to another in this well-acted and sharply filmed comedy.
Reviews Windfall is a chamber play that’s fun in the moment By: Nguyên Lê Netflix goes Hitchcockian in this collision of the classes.
Reviews X offers up retro slasher sleaze with a meta money shot By: Clint Worthington Ti West's deviously inventive porno-horror balances sick kills with an aching longing for the vagaries of youth.
Festivals SXSW 2022: The Cow should be put out to pasture By: Peter Sobczynski Winona Ryder is the sole saving grace in The Cow, an unnecessarily convoluted mystery with a distastefully archaic view of women & aging
Festivals SXSW 2022: Stay the Night is a pleasant Canadian romantic excursion By: Lisa Laman Not quite as good as the films it mimics, Stay the Night still has several charms of its own
Festivals SXSW 2022: Pirates travels generic high seas of New Year’s Eve mischief By: Lisa Laman The backdrop of an impending new millennium can't jump start this comedy's creative juices
Festivals SXSW 2022: Spin Me Round wastes its promising comedic ingredients By: Lisa Laman Jeff Baena’s lifeless mysterious comedy will leave you scratching your head in all the wrong ways