& 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.
U Categories Movies March 20, 2019 Us Review: Jordan Peele Forces Us To Look In the Mirror Jordan Peele's latest doesn't have the structural and subtextual heft of Get Out, but it's a chilling genre exercise anchored by a mesmerizing Lupita Nyong'o performance.
S Categories News February 3, 2019 Super Bowl Trailer Roundup: Avengers: Endgame, Toy Story and More From the latest Marvel trailers to the upcoming Amazon/Hulu shows, the Super Bowl was a cavalcade of anticipated TV spots.
