The Scary of Sixty-First is an incredibly engaging piece of camp in the narrative form of classic paranoia-thrillers. Recently, while on my way to lunch…
Anyone showing up to The Housewives of the North Pole for some bad behavior shenanigans is going to be sorely disappointed. The Housewives of the North…
Nightmare Alley suffers from some tonal imbalance and isn’t always suited to its epic style, but the strength of craft and del Toro’s familiar…
Spielberg’s authorship is distinctly felt in this version of West Side Story, and more than in the original, it here truly feels as if…
The Last Son is ill-conceived and one-dimensional, yet another bid at mining a the Western mythos that trades only in outmoded tropes and iconography. Playing…
Last and First Men is a artful, melancholy work that suggests the heights Jóhannsson might have reached, even as the final product can feel more…
Being the Ricardos would have benefitted from more fully committing to one of its many directions, but it remains a slick, emotionally dynamic film and…
Dumont’s recent shift into outright absurdity and his exuberant mistrust of form is most thrillingly realized in France, and particularly in Seydoux’s remarkable performance.…
Don’t Look Up is Adam McKay’s latest po-faced, celebrity-stuffed foray into unfunny finger-wagging and condescension. There’s a curious combativeness to the recent works of Adam…
National Champions isn’t even good enough to make the playoffs. Adapted from the Adam Mervis play of the same name, Ric Roman Waugh’s National Champions…
Red Rocket is an intentionally bad vibes experience, and while the film’s messaging is resolutely simplistic, it’s all kept afloat by Simon Rex’s year’s-best performance.…
Mickey Reece makes idiosyncratic, uncategorizable films, chamber horror Agnes is his best film to date. Prolific Oklahoma underground filmmaker Mickey Reece is out there blowing up…
The Flight Before Christmas is another inventive, droll effort from the Aardman team, imbuing their familiar stylings with a little misty-eyed holiday cheer. One might…
The latest entry into the “quarantine art” canon, Project Space 13 is just another empty film with nothing substantive to say about our present…
More poodle than Wolf, Biancheri’s film is a frustratingly tame and conservative treatment of potentially fascinating material. Ten years ago, a film like Wolf would…
The Humans isn’t a subtle film, but mostly impresses thanks to surprising formal chops from playwright-turned-director Stephen Karam. In a millennium relatively lacking in original…
Castle Falls isn’t the DTV flick of the year that it’s inspired pairing teases, but its a solid little actioner that doesn’t overstay its welcome.…
Single All the Way is as delightful and infectious as Hallmark-styled holiday films should be, and marks Netflix’s first such success in his arena. Netflix’s…