9.8 BEST NEW MOVIE The Zone of Interest presents the Holocaust with minimum spectacle and maximum terror By: Matt Cipolla The writer/director’s first feature in 10 years is a near-unclassifiable work, emotionally flattening yet fundamentally opposed to mining tension through its craft.
8.0 BEST NEW SHOW Doctor Who splits hairs in The Giggle and teases a bisected future By: Clint Worthington David Tennant's final(?) special as the Fourteenth Doctor is a giddy, overstuffed callback to the excesses of the Russell T. Davies era -- with a suitably overbaked guest star and a dashing preview of adventures to come.
8.1 BEST NEW SHOW Hulu offers something more interesting than the usual Culprits By: Tim Stevens The heist thriller series stays compelling even as it grows more typical.
8.0 BEST NEW MOVIE Poor Things is a weird & wonderful Frankenstein story By: Gena Radcliffe Yorgos Lanthimos directs a sumptuous adult fairy tale featuring Emma Stone at her very best.
Reviews Stamped from the Beginning illuminates America’s ongoing acceptance of white supremacy By: Peter Sobczynski The Netflix documentary uses historical evidence and modern scholarship to demonstrate racism's continued role in US society.
Reviews If only Obliterated suffered the fate its title suggests By: Tim Stevens Netflix’s action-comedy is deadly short on both.
Reviews Napoleon lacks the complexity to explore love or war By: Matt Cipolla Ridley Scott’s surprisingly hollow biopic of the French military commander falters as a character piece and comes shy of victory as an epic.
Reviews An unlikely friendship takes a dark turn in Eileen By: Gena Radcliffe Thomasin McKenzie & Anne Hathaway burn up the screen in William Oldroyd’s unsettling thriller.
Reviews Slow Horses Season 3 takes off on more of a trot By: Tim Stevens The AppleTV+ spy series retains its humor but gives viewers its most tightly plotted effort yet.
Reviews Wish for something less lazy from Disney By: Peter Sobczynski Kids deserve better than yet another dull, going-through-the-motions misfire.
Recap Doctor Who reverses the show’s downward polarity with The Star Beast By: Clint Worthington Russell T. Davies, David Tennant, and Catherine Tate do a hard reset on the beloved sci-fi show, taking it back to basics and resolving the show's own metacrisis.
Reviews Before Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving, there was Blood Rage By: Gena Radcliffe Serve up this bizarre, oddly funny 80s slasher as part of your holiday entertainment feast this year.
Reviews Fargo Season 5’s a return to form, dontcha know By: Tim Stevens The crime drama returns to the Land of 10,000 Lakes and rediscovers its best storytelling self.
Reviews The Holdovers is a welcome return to form By: Scout Tafoya After stumbling with Downsizing, Alexander Payne bounces back with a gentle & witty comedy-drama.
Reviews The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes proves itself in the arena By: Shannon Campe Despite a challenging premise and an overlong runtime, the Hunger Games prequel makes the most of the hand it’s been dealt.
8.1 BEST NEW SHOW Scott Pilgrim Takes Off what’s come before in favor of dawning something new and wonderful By: Justin Harrison The ScienceSaru-produced animated series rebuilds rather than retells Bryan Lee O'Malley's beloved comic.
Reviews Trolls Band Together is another off-key entry in the franchise By: Lisa Laman The Trolls movies continue to indulge in their best and worst impulses in a third installment.
Anniversaries Nebraska at 10: Alexander Payne’s love letter to the Midwest Long overshadowed by Sideways, we’re giving this understated dramedy its due for depicting Midwest with the specificity Hollywood rarely gives it.
Reviews A Murder at the End of the World plays And Then There Were None in the snow By: Tim Stevens Hulu’s crime thriller/environmentalist warning is less than the sum of its references, but star Emma Corrin earns viewers’ attention.
Reviews The Killer is dead by design, and largely for the better By: Matt Cipolla David Fincher’s tale of a globetrotting assassin combines slick setpieces with economic construction.