It takes a kind of charming naïveté these days to purport to represent the vagaries of sexuality onscreen without so much as a sideways glance…
Emancipation attempts, and mightily fails, to balance a film stodgy enough to play in a high school classroom with Hollywood’s typically rousing approach to historical epic…
Something from Tiffany’s isn’t much more substantive than your average holiday rom-com, but it’s leads are so likeable and its approach so breezy that it…
It’s 2016 and Dana (Mallori Johnson), a 26-year-old woman who suddenly transplants from New York to Los Angeles with no job, no friends, and minimal…
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio takes its well-worn titular tale and manages to make it feel fresh, despite a few incoherencies along the way. In what seems…
“Sr.” is complex and surprising in its construction, its focus at the crossroads of love and folly and the man who constantly put them on…
Lady Chatterley’s Lover makes the mistake of relying heavily on its source material’s action without understanding either its playfulness or seriousness. A Reader’s Digest gloss of…
Your Christmas or Mine? is a totally misguided holiday film with no emotional stakes or rooting interests to be found. Yuletide romance Your Christmas or Mine?…
Christmas with the Campbells angles for a bawdy send-up of the Hallmark holiday rom-com, but fails to strike a successful balance. With literally hundreds of holiday-themed…
A Wounded Fawn is a delightfully weird and lo-fi work of playful horror. There’s not much left to do with serial killer narratives these days, but…
In recent years, Copenhagen’s Rigshospitalet was the site of most of the major Danish royalty’s births. Last year, it was ranked the 15th best hospital…
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…
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…
Story of a Mouse is unsurprisingly beholden to a certain vein of hagiography, but it’s also compellingly as racked with contradictions as its titular subject.…
Lost Bullet 2 is hands down one of the best actioners of the year. With the avalanche of movies and television thrust upon increasingly weary viewers…
My Father’s Dragon bears little of the depth or artistry that has made Cartoon Saloon features worthy of note in recently years. In The Secret of…
Wendell & Wild has evident ambition, but it’s ultimately far too small. Seemingly focus-tested for maximum appeal to parents who really, really miss Key & Peele,…
The Wonder is undeniably lifted by the strength of its two leads and technical craft, despite a notable failure to satisfy all of Lelio’s ambitions. Rarely…
Falling for Christmas isn’t rewriting the holiday rom-com rulebook, but it’s an appropriately cozy affair aided by appealing production design and an utterly charming Lohan.…