T Categories Reviews TV May 5, 2022 The Staircase tells stories within storiesĀ HBO's new true-crime drama makes gripping television of yesterday's news.
G Categories Movies Reviews December 12, 2021 Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley has little behind the flim-flam The auteur's update of the 1946 novel is a film noir steeped in too much of the author's romanticism.
& Categories Movies Reviews June 13, 2021 “Dream Horse” goes a little too according to plan Toni Collette tries to elevate a by-the-books horse racing drama that's long on horse racing and short on actual drama.
& Categories Columns Movies P.S.H. I Love You November 16, 2020 “Mary and Max” combined stubby designs with sleek emotions Adam Elliot's claymation offering was Philip Seymour Hoffman's only animated film, but it's as thorough as his other efforts.
& Categories Movies Reviews August 27, 2020 “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” will shake you to your core Charlie Kaufman directs one of the most subtly horrifying movies of the year.
C Categories CIFF 2019 Festivals Movies October 24, 2019 CIFF 10/23: “Wild Sparrow”, “And Then We Danced”, “Knives Out” & More Our penultimate CIFF dispatch breaks down Rian Johnson's star-studded caper Knives Out, the Georgian queer drama And Then We Danced..., and more.
U Categories TV September 2, 2019 Unbelievable Review: A Complicated, Convoluted Search for Truth Netflix's new miniseries illustrates the painful, ugly road to justice after a sexual assault.
& Categories Movies August 6, 2019 “The Sixth Sense” & the Weight of Childhood Trauma Haley Joel Osment's gripping performance elevated M. Night Shyamalan's second feature to a horror masterpiece.
S Categories Festivals Movies Sundance 2019 February 1, 2019 Sundance 1/31 Dispatch: Share, Velvet Buzzsaw Day 4 of Sundance shows us a neon-lit social media nightmare in Share, as well as Dan Gilroy's arch, uneven art world critique Velvet Buzzsaw.
& Categories Movies February 1, 2019 “Velvet Buzzsaw” Review: Dan Gilroy Presents a Gallery of Garish Scares High art meets low-grade horror in Dan Gilroy's big, chancey dark satire of the high-priced modern art market.
