C Categories Movies Reviews April 12, 2023 Campy Cage aside, Renfield lumbers into overly familiar vampire territory Nic Cage sinks his teeth into Count Dracula's camp menace, but the movie around him is a limp action-comedy that doesn't know what it wants to be.
& Categories Movies Reviews March 4, 2021 “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run” eventually sinks into formula The latest trip to Bikini Bottom soaks the sea in garish CG animation and a creaky level of sentiment, but plenty of the show's surreal delights remain.
& Categories Movies Reviews March 1, 2021 “Raya and the Last Dragon” is a rollicking Southeast Asian-styled fantasy Disney's high-fantasy adventure is spirited and dynamic, even as it flattens a host of Southeast Asian cultural signifiers into a homogenous whole.
R Categories TV January 7, 2020 Review: “Awkwafina is Nora From Queens” Shines Comedian turned actress Awkwafina is stoned, horny, & transnational in a new series on Comedy Central.
R Categories Movies December 10, 2019 Review: “Jumanji: The Next Level” Is Getting Too Old For This Jake Kasdan's followup to the surprisingly fun 2017 sequel loses some of the original's luster.
P Categories Movies October 24, 2019 Paradise Hills Review: Harajuku Gossip Girls Emma Roberts fights the patriarchy in this trippy feminist fairy tale.
R Categories TV August 30, 2019 Review: “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance” Is a Sprawling High Fantasy Prequel The Jim Henson Company makes a stellar return to form in Netflix's epic, ten-episode prequel to the classic 1982 film.
T Categories Movies August 11, 2019 The Angry Birds Movie 2 Review: Leave After “Hair Love” It may be prefaced by a brilliant, heartfelt short, but Sony Pictures Animation's latest, like its adaptation, is a huge waste of time.
& Categories Movies July 12, 2019 “The Farewell” is A Poignantly Funny Goodbye Culture clash and end-of-life issues collide in Lulu Wang's scintillatingly heartfelt drama "based on an actual lie."
C Categories CCFF 2019 Festivals News April 26, 2019 Chicago Critics Film Festival 2019 Titles Announced: Yesterday, Luce, Alien in 35mm The seventh annual Chicago Critics Film Festival includes a 35mm print of Alien, as well as festival faves like The Nightinggale and Yesterday.
