Reviews “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” is a worthy film with a fraught history By: Justin Harrison The ambitious-as-hell, occasionally lovely superhero epic comes with a whole lot of baggage.
Reviews “Waffles + Mochi” shows kids how food connects us around the world By: Beau North The latest Obama-produced series for Netflix is a stone-cold adorable mix of Sesame Street and Salt Fat Acid Heat.
Interviews Jermaine Stegall on giving voice to Zamunda in “Coming 2 America” The Coming 2 America composer talks about finding the sound of Zamunda and the need for opportunities for Black composers.
Reviews “Come True” comes undone with a last-minute revelation By: Jon Negroni IFC Midnight properly knows its audience for this chilling, but uneven exploration of sleep paralysis.
Reviews “Kid 90” shows us the highs and lows of child stardom By: Megan Sunday Soleil Moon Frye directs this bittersweet albeit breezy look back at the Hollywood teen stars of the '90s, and their difficult road to now.
Reviews Gen Z gets another teen sex dramedy with “Generation” By: Theo Estes Co-created by a father and daughter duo, the new series on HBO Max starts on shaky ground, but shows promise.
Reviews “Stay Out of the Fucking Attic,” & stay away from this movie By: Sean Price An interesting concept is wasted with shoddy special effects and indifferent performances.
Features The moving “Days of Being Wild” is all too timely Wong Kar-wai's melancholy second feature hits harder in the face of current events.
Reviews “The Inheritance” struggles to coalesce notions of Black liberation By: Oluwatayo Adewole Ephraim Asili's Godard-inspired treatise on Black activism and community-building loses itself a bit in its artistic flair.
Berlinale Berlinale: “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn” is quite a trip By: Reyzando Nawara Radu Jude's latest is as unsubtle as it is gripping, a strange tryptich about sex, justice, and communal madness.
Filmmaker of the Month Wong Kar-wai cut his teeth on the bold “As Tears Go By” Wong Kar-wai's first film is a messy crime drama that nonetheless shows glimmers of his future genius.
Columns P.S.H. I Love You: “Pirate Radio” sinks under its own weight Philip Seymour Hoffman does his best to lift up Richard Curtis' (literally) queasy ode to '60s boomer rock hits.
Reviews “Stray” is a short but sweet look at man’s best friend By: B.L. Panther Elizabeth Lo directs a philosophical look at a dog's place in the world, and among humans.
TV “Good Girls” experiences the ennui of being bad in season 4 Good Girls digs deeper into the grind of a life of crime but loses a bit of its spark in the process.
Reviews “Murder Among the Mormons” puts the church under a microscope By: Beau North Jared Hess directs an uneven documentary on forgeries & a gruesome series of bombings committed within the Mormon community.
Reviews The spirited “Moxie” will charm its way into your life By: Ashley Lara Amy Poehler directs a smart, insightful comedy about teen girls learning to embrace their power.
Berlinale Berlinale 2021: “Night Raiders” warps Native issues into a weak YA thriller By: Peter Sobczynski Danis Goulet's sci-fi adventure intriguingly explores the systematic eradication of indigenous peoples through a Hunger Games lens, but falters when it leans too close to the conventions of that already-creaky genre.
Recap The “WandaVision” finale helps us see the rocky road to healing The end (for now) of Wanda and Vision's story reflects our own feelings of joy stolen and abundant pain the previous year has wrought.
Reviews Berlinale 2021: “Drift Away” is a riveting but frustrating police thriller By: Peter Sobczynski Xavier Beauvois' procedural offers intriguing day-in-the-life police work, despite an abrupt late-film shift into melodrama.
Interviews A conversation with “The World to Come” composer Daniel Blumberg The avant-garde musician talks about his first foray into the world of feature film scoring, and the experimental, yearning score that followed.
Reviews “Keep an Eye Out” is an absurd trip of a movie By: B.L. Panther Quentin Dupeiux's convoluted dark comedy is both perplexing and entertaining.