Reviews You moves its sinister lead to the suburbs in season 3 By: Megan Sunday The Netflix dark comedy is as watchable as ever, while still struggling with what it wants the audience to think about its protagonist.
Festivals NYFF: Ahed’s Knee has style and righteous anger to spare By: Jonah Koslofsky Ahed's Knee, director Nadav Lapid's latest film, cannot match his best work, but it's far from a failure. It has style and anger to spare.
CIFF 2021 Our 10 most anticipated films from the 2021 Chicago International Film Festival We break down the movies we're looking forward to seeing most out of this year's hybrid festival in Chicago.
Anniversaries A Celebration Of Specialness: True Stories at 35 David Byrne's winsome wisp of a film didn't get the attention it deserved upon release, but its charms persist 35 years later.
Reviews Madonna concert doc Madame X flirts with political provocation By: B.L. Panther The queen of pop serves up a filmed version of her controversial 2020 tour, one as lush in style as it is thin in substance.
Podcasts Cliff Martinez on his score for Drive, 10 years later The composer talks about the synth-infused score to the Ryan Gosling neo-noir classic ten years on.
Recap The Great British Baking Show rises to bread’s challenges in episode 3 By: Ashley Lara The Great British Baking Show's third episode has nary a Breadman to be seen. But it DOES have a Bread Baby.
Reviews Welcome to the Blumhouse: The Manor is shabby, but Madres is wonderfully unsettling By: Lisa Laman Welcome to the Blumhouse closes its 2021 edition on a high note thanks to the chilling and strongly performed Madres.
Recap Ted Lasso “Inverting the Pyramid of Success” Recap: Season 2 Finale (mostly) nails it Ted Lasso's Season 2 Finale choices for Roy and Keeley still baffle, but everything else comes together in this strong closer.
Reviews One of Us Is Lying doesn’t quite have its story down yet By: Tim Stevens Peacock's new teen drama-thriller One of Us Is Lying has promise but needs to shake its devotion to the source material's pacing.
Reviews The Eyes of Tammy Faye looks at history from too far away By: Tim Stevens Great performances cannot overcome a bland, distanced take on the biggest Evangelical scandal in U.S. history in The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
Reviews The Baby-Sitters Club returns for a heartwarming season 2 By: Shannon Campe Netflix's good-hearted adaptation of the classic YA books digs deeper into the ever-complex relationships between its teen characters.
Reviews TIFF 2021: What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? Not as much as we might with a lighter touch By: Soham Gadre Alexandre Koberidze's film is lovely and well-performed, but overly insistent on its epic status.
Reviews Lamb: A pastoral allegory that’s equal parts haunting and frustrating By: Theo Estes Lamb, Valdimar Jóhannsson’s debut feature, is moody and captivating but shaky thematics keep it from living up to its own promise.
Recap The Great British Baking Show kicks out the jams in episode 2 Bring some milk for three challenges involving cookies...er, ah, biscuits.
Reviews Welcome to the Blumhouse: Bingo Hell/Black as Night By: Lisa Laman The first two entries in the newest Welcome to Blumhouse collection are a flawed pair of scary films.
Reviews The Addams Family 2 is frighteningly phoned-in family entertainment By: Lisa Laman The iconic kooky and spooky family hits a new low in big-screen excursions.
Festivals NYFF 2021: The Tragedy of Macbeth is a sparse, elegant take on the Bard By: Jonah Koslofsky Joel Coen steps out on his own & directs a powerhouse cast in an extra-dark version of Shakespeare's tale of ambition & absolute power.
Reviews The Many Saints of Newark brings the family back together By: Michael Frank The prequel to the landmark HBO series fleshes out the capos who came before Tony Soprano.
Recap Ted Lasso “Midnight Train to Royston” Recap: It’s the hope that kills The season finally gets its villain as everyone's good moments are rapidly undercut in Ted Lasso Season 2 Episode 11.
Reviews Doom Patrol Season 3 goes deeper still By: Tim Stevens The strangest superheroes battle the undead, aliens, time travelers, and more on their way to figuring themselves out in Season 3.