Crooked Marquee — Page 32 of 244 — Delightfully unique (crooked) movie perspectives.

01/10/202501/09/2025inClassic Corner, Happy Birthday, Looking Backby Josh Bell5 min read

Classic Corner: The Shop Around the Corner

The holidays may be over, but Ernst Lubitsch’s Christmas favorite is still ideal cold-weather comfort viewing for its 85th anniversary.

01/09/202501/08/2025inReviewsby Jason Bailey4 min read

Review: The Last Showgirl

Stylish direction and sensitive performances ultimately can’t save a badly shopworn screenplay.

01/08/202501/07/2025inMoviesby Anna McKibbin5 min read

Some Ugly, Hard Truths

The deceptively flat look of Mike Leigh’s latest is, in its own way, as much a commentary on its subject as the sensitive script and stunning performances.

01/07/202501/06/2025inMoviesby Audrey Fox5 min read

Anora, The Brutalist, and the American Dream

Two of this year’s most acclaimed pictures examine, in their own unique ways, the mythology and reality of American life

01/07/202501/07/2025inReviews, VODepthsby Josh Bell5 min read

VODepths: What to See (and Avoid) on Demand This Week

Our mini-reviews of “Aladdin 3477: The Jinn of Wisdom,” “Dominoes,” “Laws of Man,” and more of this week’s under-the-radar releases.

01/06/202501/05/2025inLooking Backby Olivia Popp6 min read

25 Years of Double-Dunst: The Virgin Suicides and Bring It On, a Quarter Century On

Dunst’s characters in the two films maybe be polar opposites, but to champion one without the other falls prey to the social norms in which they—and we—exist.

01/03/202501/01/2025inClassic Corner, Looking Backby Jason Bailey5 min read

Classic Corner: The Fugitive Kind

“It’s Xavier,” he mumbles. “With an X or an S?” comes the reply, and an early hint at the kind of pointed metaphors The Fugitive Kind will traffic in. No, his name is not “Savior”; it’s “Xavier,” though most of those who know him before that moment call him “Snakeskin” (after the jacket that gives […]