T Categories Reviews TV September 13, 2023 The Morning Show returns for more self-important nonsense The third season of Apple TV's daytime news series makes for some excellent hate-watching, & not much else.
H Categories Reviews TV February 15, 2023 Hello Tomorrow! can’t stop working the con even when it gets ridiculous Don’t fall for AppleTV+’s retro-futurist tale, no matter how good it looks.
“ Categories Movies Reviews March 15, 2021 “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” is a worthy film with a fraught history The ambitious-as-hell, occasionally lovely superhero epic comes with a whole lot of baggage.
P Categories Columns Features Movies P.S.H. I Love You September 28, 2020 P.S.H. I Love You: Stealing every scene in “Mission Impossible III” Philp Seymour Hoffman takes a rote villain role and goes toe-to-toe with megastar Tom Cruise in J.J. Abrams' Mission: Impossible III.
& Categories Columns Features Movies P.S.H. I Love You September 21, 2020 “Almost Famous” is still even-keeled escapism Cameron Crowe's rock and roll dramedy may not be the most realistic tale, but it's a keen mix of chaotic and crowd-pleasing.
R Categories TV October 28, 2019 Review: Don’t Bother Getting Up for “The Morning Show” Apple+’s new drama about the cutthroat world of TV news looks good but suffers from derivative, clumsy writing. Sunday’s New York Times featured an op-ed..
A Categories Movies August 19, 2019 After the Wedding Review: A grown-up drama that doesn’t trust its own story This English-language remake of the 2006 Danish drama stops short of having anything interesting to say about its privileged protagonists.
W Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies August 14, 2019 Where’d You Go, Bernadette Review: A whimsical mid-life crisis Richard Linklater's latest removes the mystery from the Marie Semple novel, but ends up a flawed but welcome reflection on aging and creativity.
W Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies March 16, 2019 With “Big Fish,” Tim Burton Told His Last, Greatest Tall Tale Tim Burton's last great film was a mythic tall tale that anchored his dark whimsy in something more sentimental and moving.