Reviews Being the Ricardos is a dull, talky affair By: Gena Radcliffe Aaron Sorkin just can’t help telling the story of the beloved 1950s sitcom duo through a modern lens.
Reviews American Underdog can’t defeat mediocre filmmaking By: Sean Price The Zachary Levi-starrer goes little on the message, heavy on cliché.
Reviews The Matrix Resurrections is a sci-fi love story wrapped in a queered IP blockbuster By: Clint Worthington Lana Wachowski's return to the franchise is a messy, achingly sincere meta-sequel that refreshingly reflects on its very existence.
Interviews “When you’re good at something, time disappears”: Composer Uno Helmersson on Flee The Swedish composer and instrumentalist talks about giving voice to things left unsaid in NEON's acclaimed animated documentary.
Reviews MacGruber is what you’d expect, for better and for worse By: Lisa Laman The character couldn’t quite carry a feature film and now he can’t quite carry a Peacock comedy.
Reviews Sing 2 sings a mechanically familiar harmony By: Lisa Laman The sequel to Sing is as perfunctory and over-stuffed as its predecessor.
Anniversaries “Apparently He Has Been Selecting Low-Power Jokes.” Hey, Somebody Has To Write About Heartbeeps A re-evaluation of Andy Kaufman's biggest film role leads to more or less the same conclusions.
Features The power of performative, racialised masculinity in The Power of The Dog Jane Campion's latest explores how the rich and powerful assume--and shed--the trappings of others for their fulfillment.
Recap Star Trek: Discovery gives plenty of “The Examples” of what it does well and poorly The latest installment frequently can't match ideas with execution in fully satisfying ways.
Features The Top 25 TV Shows of 2021 This year's best in TV took us from the furthest reaches of space to murder mysteries in small Philly towns.
Reviews Swan Song questions the ethics of deception to spare our loved ones pain By: Gena Radcliffe Mahershala Ali reaffirms his status as America’s best working actor in Benjamin Cleary’s quietly moving sci-fi drama about a dying man considering replacement by a clone.
Reviews Spider-Man: No Way Home rolls two decades of comic book filmmaking into its web By: Clint Worthington The third entry in Tom Holland's web-slinging saga sends him through the looking glass in a fan service-packed sequel that's fairly fun even in its franchise calculations.
Reviews Despite some stumbles, Station Eleven is worth the journey By: Sarah Gorr HBO Max's adaptation of the 2014 novel strikes a surprisingly hopeful note.
Reviews Manners maketh man—dismal filmmaking maketh The King’s Man By: Lisa Laman The only new thing The King’s Man brings to the Kingsman series is crummy craft.
Reviews Prepare to recognize all the sights in Death Valley By: Michael Frank New to Shudder, the genre mashup follows in the footsteps of many better films.
Reviews American Auto sputters right out the garage By: Ashley Lara Despite a game cast, the new sitcom from the creator of Superstore is closer to an Edsel than a GTO.
Recap Succession’s season 3 finale paints the Roy kids into a corner By: Ashley Lara Season three goes out with a jaw-dropping bang, as a Tuscan wedding sets the stage for Logan to suck the last drops of blood out of his progeny.
Reviews National Champions’ noble cause is undercut by its poor craft By: Sarah Gorr A righteous argument that student-athletes deserve better is ill-served by a flat film that's more focused on making its point than telling a story to make that point.
Reviews The Witcher’s world gets deeper and wider in season two By: Beau North Geralt of Rivia trades monsters-of-the-week for a long-form story that pushes the show forward in exciting and intriguing ways.
Anniversaries Reevaluating Billy Wilder’s final film, Buddy Buddy The legendary filmmaker's last bow is a fascinating misfire starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon (and a bonkers Klaus Kinski).