T Categories Reviews TV May 15, 2023 There’s little substance or heft to Middle East spy thriller Ghosts of Beirut Showtime's account of the hunt for Imad Mughniyeh is a tepid, overstuffed miniseries with a jumbled mix of narrative and documentary elements.
S Categories Movies Reviews March 10, 2023 Scream VI takes a gruesome bite out of the Big Apple The requel sequel efficiently checks off all the slasher boxes without saying anything new.
U Categories Movies Reviews March 24, 2022 Umma partially succeeds as a horror with texture For a while, the Zainab Azizi & Sam Raimi-produced title is on par with its skillful lead
S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews SXSW 2022 March 18, 2022 SXSW 2022: The Cow should be put out to pasture Winona Ryder is the sole saving grace in The Cow, an unnecessarily convoluted mystery with a distastefully archaic view of women & aging
S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews Sundance 2021 January 31, 2021 Sundance 2021: Don’t try to understand “The Blazing World” Carlson Young writes, directs and stars in a baffling horror-fantasy about a young woman who disappears into an elaborate alternate universe
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies August 25, 2020 “Stoker” brought Park Chan-wook to America for a Gothic exercise in style The director's sole English-language film to date is a simmering, occasionally empty exercise in Hitchcockian style.
& Categories Reviews TV July 3, 2020 “Hanna” season 2 hits hard, but could pick its shots better Finally out from under the shadow of its filmic inspiration, the Amazon series treads new ground in its second season.
& Categories TV December 30, 2019 “Messiah” Gets Lost in Narrative Purgatory Netflix explores the geopolitical implications of the arrival of a Christ-like savior on the world stage, to less than divine results.
