You Still Here, Ho? is more of the same for Flo Milli, but that same is littered with small pockets of joy and Milli’s reliably dexterous…
Robert Zemeckis filmed What Lies Beneath, a ghost story set in a modern world, while on a break from Castaway, waiting for Tom Hanks to…
The Invitation perhaps could have actually been surprising if marketing hadn’t spoiled its game, but there’s unfortunately not much else for viewers to have fun…
Untrapped flirts with greatness in its initial stretch, but soon frustratingly settles into lionization and depthless narrative. There’s a solid half-hour stretch where Untrapped briefly flirts…
Loving Adults is visually impressive and sporadically interesting, but sacrifices the necessary character depth for this type of film at the altar of melodramatic plot construction.…
In the 25 years since Robert Zemeckis released Contact, the search for extraterrestrials has moved from fringe conspiracy theory to a matter of national security.…
Samaritan is a shallow, abysmally paced actioner that fails to deliver any impressive action. A drab, joyless affair, the new Sylvester Stallone vehicle Samaritan finds…
Three Thousand Years of Longing presents a fairly stimulating academic study in its early going, but ultimately fails to balance its conceptual and emotional aims.…
The liner notes for The Chicks’ third album, Home, included a photo of a marquee with giant block letters declaring, “We are changing the way…
“The problem with Forrest Gump is it made a billion dollars. If we’d just made a successful movie, Bob and I would have been geniuses.…
Special is an undeniably imbalanced record, but it’s saved by the strength of its intimate back-half and b-sides. “Hiii, motherfucker, did you miss me?” begins…
Kingmaker is Neilson’s finest record yet, and a strong argument that she might herself be the current king of country music. Kingmaker, the sixth studio…
The confident, even brazen, Red & White is further proof that Lil Uzi Vert has the uncanny ability to stay one step ahead of us…
Wormrot’s latest is an agonizing and extraordinary blend of grindcore, black metal, and screamo, coupled with surprising emotional complexity. After their blistering 2016 album Voices,…
Jack in the Box is a nostalgic, joyous riff on classic hip hop sounds, and a blueprint for how to go solo with swagger. Hot…
Lizzo “Hiii, motherfucker, did you miss me?” begins the first song on Lizzo’s newest album, Special. And, honestly, given that a lot of big-name artists…
No matter how many times I see it, Death Becomes Her exists first and foremost as a VHS box sitting on the cramped shelf of…
Even though, to many audiences today, the eclecticism of live-action and animation may appear as a sort of a postmodernist achievement in the realm of…
Me Time is an unfunny, haphazard, and chemistry-poor waste of everyone’s time. The Kevin Hart-Netflix train rolls on with Me Time, a new buddy comedy from…
Cinephilia is necessarily littered with the detritus of half-remembered viewing experiences, films only glimpsed from childhood in a perspective almost wholly incompatible with the viewer’s…
Out of the Blue feels like a bizarre cross between Murder, She Wrote and Cassandra’s Dream, punched up with a healthy dose of LaBute’s patented woman-hating toxicity. It’s…