Festivals TIFF: All My Puny Sorrows clings to its source material to its significant detriment By: Soham Gadre All My Puny Sorrows, adapted from the novel of the same name, undermines strong performances by clinging too tightly to its source material.
Festivals TIFF 2021: Jagged tells you everything you oughta know about Alanis Morrissette By: Peter Sobczynski Alison Klayman's chronicle of the Canadian singer's rise to fame centers around her seminal 1995 album, and the trail it blazed for female artists.
Reviews The Circle’s third season sees its frothing drama flatten far too early By: Ashley Lara The Circle, Netflix's social media reality show, begins its third season with a blast that the rest of the show simply cannot match.
Reviews Kin’s tremendous cast makes a dance out of its familiar steps By: Michael Frank A familiar study of an Irish crime family, Kin gives a host of terrific actors a chance to shine, both individually and together.
Festivals TIFF 2021: Violet is an on-the-nose exploration of Hollywood anxiety By: Soham Gadre Olivia Munn's spirited performance elevates what otherwise feels like a moralistic, obvious self-help treatise on trauma and accountability.
Festivals TIFF 2021: Naomi Watts tries to outrun disaster in the horrendous Lakewood By: Peter Sobczynski Phillip Noyce and Naomi Watts team up for a preposterous, formulaic high-concept thriller that does nothing tasteful with its premise.
Festivals TIFF 2021: Titane is a fever dream best served cold By: Sarah Kurchak Julia Ducourneau's followup to her stunning debut Raw makes for brutal, beautiful, brilliant body horror.
Festivals TIFF: Mothering Sunday’s intimate sensuality and strong character work shine despite some rough structural work. Mothering Sunday sees star Odessa Young give a stupendous performance of a young woman's birth as a writer and passionate love.
Festivals TIFF: The Mad Women’s Ball is sadly far from a blitz The Mad Women's Ball, Melanie Laurent's adaptation of a novel about a young woman's incarceration in a cruel asylum, is disappointingly flat.
Reviews Come from Away’s warmth is undermined by key creative choices By: B.L. Panther Come from Away, a musical true story about a town that took in 38 planes in the wake of 9/11, undercuts its warmth with its creative choices.
Festivals TIFF: Listening to Kenny G is about as pleasantly inoffensive as his music By: Peter Sobczynski Penny Lane's profile on the smooth jazz superstar can't quite muster up enough energy to make its explorations of his notoriety (good and bad) sing.
Festivals TIFF: Dear Evan Hansen is a confounding adaptation of the stage musical By: Sarah Kurchak Ben Platt's age is the least of our problems in Stephen Chbosky's misguided adaptation of the already-misguided musical Dear Evan Hansen.
Reviews Malignant is a mess, but an entertaining mess By: Gena Radcliffe James Wan directs a gory collection of homages that somehow pulls together into a good time.
Reviews HBO’s Scenes From a Marriage tests the ties that bind By: Beau North Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain wring brutal truths from the complexities of matrimony in this update of the Ingmar Bergman classic.
Reviews Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. is stricken with a severe case of over-familiarity By: Lisa Laman Disney+'s latest revival is too beholden to the past for its own good.
Recap Ted Lasso “Man City” Recap: The dam breaks Nearly all plotlines move forward and we finally learn the pain Ted's concealing.
Reviews American Rust creaks under its own weight By: Tim Stevens Showtime's latest shot at prestige television has all the trappings, none of the energy.
Columns KinoKultur: Deep Rising and The Strangeness’ Tentacular Tales Though decades and budgets apart, Stephen Sommers and Melanie Anne Phillips' creature features dig into the unique terror of the tentacle.
Recap Ted Lasso “Headspace” Recap: Time for therapy The Ted Lasso Way runs into a brick wall this week.
Podcasts Joel P. West on balancing East and West for Shang-Chi The Short Term 12 and Just Mercy composer takes on his biggest challenge yet -- the expansive sound of the MCUi.
Reviews This overly familiar action revenge thriller is too little, too Kate By: Jon Negroni Mary Elizabeth Winstead works tirelessly to uplift Netflix's latest derivative shoot-em-up, to disappointing results.