Features “Welcome home”: Cat People at 40 Paul Schrader's kinky erotic thriller offered both style & substance, and still holds up
Reviews Metal Lords can’t carry a tune, or a good story, in a bucket By: Lisa Laman This heavy metal teen comedy is a colossal misallocation of characters and tone.
Reviews Michael Bay’s Ambulance resuscitates the mid-budget heist thriller By: Clint Worthington Armed with $40 million worth of drones and Jake Gyllenhaal, the action auteur delivers one of his most relentlessly entertaining exercises in cinematic excess.
Recap Star Trek: Picard tries to sing a medley without a melody The season’s sixth episode is a collection of strange choices and narrative odds and ends.
Reviews Everything Everywhere All at Once, Michelle Yeoh, and Daniels go for broke with style and wisdom By: Justin Harrison The Daniels' mega movie is both glorious reminder of the multitude of ways Michelle Yeoh rules and a smart study of the work that goes into doing good.
Reviews Cow delivers a thoughtful but crushing look inside dairy farm By: Sean Price Andrea Arnold brings her strong eye and empathy skills to non-fiction with a raw but beautiful documentary about the life of a cow trapped in an industrialized dairy farm.
Recap Ru Paul’s Drag Race roast episode arrives expired Tired and overdone jokes predictably pork this season’s roast.
Reviews Sonic the Hedgehog 2 zooms forward to a better, albeit disjointed adventure By: Lisa Laman The blue blur's sequel rolls around at the speed of sound to the tune of messy but often fun results.
Reviews Julia is a soufflé that suffers By: B.L. Panther This sweet-hearted series based on Julia Child's foray into television boasts rich performances and weak execution.
Reviews Slow Horses moves quick By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+'s new spy offering focuses on failures, but turns out to be anything but.
Reviews The Contractor is an empty exercise in action movie nostalgia By: Michael Frank Tarik Saleh directs Chris Pine in a mediocre military conspiracy thriller that checks off all the dad movie boxes.
Recap Star Trek: Picard aims for fan fiction, falls short badly A plethora of familiar faces and reheated plots sink Jean-Luc’s 2024 adventures.
Reviews Nitram brings precision, intimacy to a horrific historical moment By: Michael Frank Justin Kurzel’s latest showcases an incredible Caleb Landry Jones performance.
Reviews Moon Knight’s quality waxes and wanes By: Tim Stevens The MCU's latest streaming series gets weird, but it only partially works.
Features 2002: the year Robin Williams scared the bejesus out of everyone The beloved comedian already proved he could do serious, but in this trio of very different movies he also did creepy.
Features Bright Star: The immaturity and immensity of looking  By: Eric Langberg Jane Campion's chronicle of Fannie Brawne and Romantic poet John Keats' courtship is a masterful study of longing and star power.
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