Category: Reviews

Think about the phrase “yacht race” and what it signifies to you. I might be an ocean-loving California girl, but I […]

Purge of Kingdoms announces itself as “a pointless parody” of Game of Thrones, which reminds me of a truism: Admitting you’re […]

The idea behind this remake of The Lion King was to tell the same story but with real animals. That being impractical, […]

After suffering through last year’s wildly self-indulgent, overly serious Disobedience, I was ready to write off any and all “artistic but […]

Stuber is a familiar product — a violent action comedy about a civilian who gets dragged into police work — with a […]

I’ll say one thing for Crawl, the new gator caper clawing its way into theaters this weekend: It’s rather snappily paced. […]

Back in 1982, an independent filmmaker named Jenny Bowen made a movie called Street Music, which centered around the working-class long-term […]

If books could always be accurately judged by their covers, the bespectacled, unassuming Ari Aster would be an accountant or an […]

As a big fat blockbuster superhero movie opening July Fourth weekend, Spider-Man: Far from Home doesn’t quite work. But perhaps that’s […]

Friends, critics, countrymen, I come to offer faint praise for Ophelia, not to bury her. See? Lifting from several of Shakespeare’s […]

You know him — there’s one of him in every circle of loose acquaintances: the guy (or gal or nonbinary pal […]