Interviews Dickon Hinchliffe on the “lost mixtape” feel of The Lost Daughter The composer talks about building a retro '60s sound for Maggie Gyllanhaal's haunting directorial debut.
Recap This week’s Star Trek: Discovery measures the distance between ourselves and the unknown "...But to Connect" expands Trek's definition of life in tidy but heartening ways.
Recap The Book of Boba Fett kicks off in pulpy Star Wars style The Mandalorian spinoff juggles Boba's past (how'd he get out of that Sarlacc?) with his new present as a budding crime lord.
Columns Criterion Corner: The Learning Tree, One Night in Miami… Two astonishing debuts from Black filmmakers populate Criterion's December offerings.
Reviews Cyrano struggles to stay on key By: Shannon Campe Joe Wright's newest interprets the classic tale as a musical with uneven results.
Reviews The Humans finds familiar faces in disquieting places By: Soham Gadre Camera work redeems the film adaptation's revisiting of common ground.
Interviews David Newman on keeping Bernstein’s music alive for Spielberg’s West Side Story The legendary composer talks about keeping the spirit of Leonard Bernstein's score alive in Steve Spielberg's musical adaptation.
Reviews Cobra Kai is still badass in season 4, but is running out of new moves By: Reyzando Nawara The hit '80s throwback series brings back some more old faces but keeps them stuck in the same old conflicts.
Reviews Emily in Paris pulls more glamour and intrigue out of its beret in season 2 By: Megan Sunday Darren Star's breezy cross-coastal rom-com returns for a second season of kitschy outfits and international love triangles.
Recap “Star Trek: Discovery” blends traditional Trek with the show’s emotional focus As the ship deals with a mysterious spacial anomaly, the crew deals with their own personal issues and the ascendance of a new life form - Discovery itself.
Features “No Way Home” is the ultimate vindication of Spider-Man on the big screen How Marvel's latest cuts through the MCU trappings to deliver one of Spidey's most personal stories yet.
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.