E Categories Reviews TV May 1, 2022 Elizabeth Moss makes Shining Girls incandescent AppleTV+'s serial killer series is kept grounded by strong talent on either side of the camera.
T Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month April 4, 2022 Top of the Lake sees Campion go deep but narrow Jane Campion's first television work in decades boasts masterful character work and a frustratingly blinkered perspective.
& Categories Reviews TV April 24, 2021 “The Handmaid’s Tale” season 4 is a morbid slog The Handmaid's Tale's relentless violence overshadows everything else in the show.
J Categories Interviews Movies June 19, 2020 Josephine Decker on the dreamy subjectivity of “Shirley” The director of Shirley talks about Elisabeth Moss, structuring scenes, and taking creative license with a real-life figure.
N Categories Interviews Podcasts Right on Cue June 5, 2020 Necessity is the mother of invention: Tamar-kali on “Shirley” The Afropunk musician-turned-composer talks to us about diving into the complicated musical psyche of Shirley Jackson.
& Categories Movies February 26, 2020 “The Invisible Man” Turns Gaslighting Into Chilling Horror Leigh Whannell's follow-up to Upgrade is a chilling, Hitchcockian thriller about the ways trauma follows us around.
S Categories Festivals Movies Sundance 2020 February 6, 2020 Sundance 2020: “Shirley” Is a Gothic Drama About the Horror of Marriage Shirley Jackson's story is brought to sumptuous life thanks to Josephine Decker and a typically-great Elisabeth Moss performance.
D Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies November 27, 2019 Desire, Use, Repeat: Patterns of Grace in “Her Smell” Alex Ross Perry's punk-rock elegy isn't just a bittersweet portrait of rock stardom, it's a beautiful model of the long, hard road to sobriety.
G Categories Features TV September 5, 2019 Gender Treachery, or Where Are All the Trans People in “The Handmaid’s Tale”? Hulu's patriarchal sci-fi dystopia can't quite bring itself to explore what happens outside the cis experience.
T Categories Movies August 9, 2019 The Kitchen Review: Female-Led Heist Film Cooks Up Mediocre Thrills Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss can't quite spice up the underdone intrigue of this '70s-set comic book adaptation.