T Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies Reviews March 21, 2022 The Portrait of a Lady sees Jane Campion paint agency, control, and desire Campion followed The Piano with a Henry James adaptation dedicated to the magnificently fraught question of desire or duty.
N Categories Reviews TV May 26, 2020 Netflix’s “Space Force” struggles to reach satirical orbit The Office's Greg Daniels and Steve Carell reunite for a clunky satire of Trump-era politics.
& Categories Movies May 2, 2020 “Arkansas” is an okay quarantine viewing, but that doesn’t mean it’s good Despite a solid supporting cast, Clark Duke's debut is a small-scale caper with that doesn't have the attention span to ever truly work.
D Categories Features Movies April 18, 2020 Don’t Panic: The “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” Film at 15 In 2005, Douglas Adams' seminal sci-fi comedy got an admirably flawed adaptation, and it's high time we appreciated its virtues.
M Categories TV January 6, 2020 Meet “The New Pope”, Same as “The Young Pope” Paolo Sorrentino's lush, campy papal drama returns for a second season, and throws John Malkovich into the lurid mix.
E Categories Movies May 2, 2019 Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile Review: the Dreamiest Serial Killer in All the Land A surprisingly solid performance by Zac Efron is wasted on an uneven drama about why chicks dig Ted Bundy.
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.
B Categories Movies December 22, 2018 Bird Box Review: Sandra Bullock Battles An Apocalypse She Can’t See Netflix's dystopian horror has Sandra Bullock fleeing a horror that will kill you if you see it.