In the first four episodes of Netflix’s newest teen series Wednesday, things were looking grim for the students of Nevermore Academy. A deranged monster was…
Glass Onion still has something of Johnson’s enduring interest in puzzles, but it’s unfortunately padded out with the shallow cleverness of endless pop culture references.…
New Confusion finds Shit and Shine at their best, tying familiar and esoteric styles into horrifyingly jagged knots of distortion and discord. Austin-based experimental project…
The Fire Within Hot on the heels of the year’s earlier release of Katia and Maurice Krafft — Fire of Love — comes Werner Herzog’s…
Hot on the heels of the year’s earlier release of Katia and Maurice Krafft — Fire of Love — comes Werner Herzog’s tribute to the…
Tranquility is a relative concept — inside a prison, one of the most stressful situations known to man, even the white-knuckle pressures of a professional…
Most viewers, though not equipped to discern the problematics of representing indigenous communities they aren’t part of, are still able to quite meaningfully evaluate how…
The Fabelmans feels emotionally raw like little else Spielberg has made. Damn near every Steven Spielberg movie, in one sense or another, is about the…
Strange World is a film without an audience, too dull for kids and too heavy-handed in its tired messaging for any accompanying adults. Disney’s newest animated…
There There executes a rather ingenious approach to the Covid shoot and delivers another win for Bujalski. Over the last few years, Andrew Bujalski’s career trajectory…
Bones and All isn’t successful across the board, but it thankfully prioritizes Guadagnino’s strengths and results in arguably his finest film. Nearly six years out from…
Alfred Gough and Miles Millar are no strangers to giving beloved characters the coming-of-age treatment, having previously created the teenage years for none other than…
Basketball isn’t like other sports. Certainly not any that Jon Bois and co-writer Alex Rubenstein have covered before, which may go a ways in explaining…
She Said lends no depth to its leads and is an aesthetically anonymous work that fails to justify the big screen treatment. It has been…
Leonor Will Never Die is a sweetly thoughtful drama disguised as loving genre throwback, with perhaps a pinch of cannier discourse creeping beneath its surface.…
It’s hard to fathom the pressure that would come with getting discovered by David Gilmour. The idea that a member of Pink Floyd would stick…
The Loneliest Time is another undeniable treat from one of pop’s greatest stars. Three years after her last bright-eyed pop album, Carly Rae Jepsen returns with The…
Anyone who has seen enough music documentaries probably has a pretty good idea of what The Return of Tanya Tucker would be before going in…
The Salem witch trials are a historical event rife with modern retellings and reimaginings, from Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and its various screen and stage…
Diana Bustamante’s Our Movie casts a peculiar spell; an essayistic documentary of sorts, it’s constructed entirely out of archival Columbian broadcast news footage from (roughly)…