The Upside Review: Not as Painful as Swapping Catheters
Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart serve up surface-level schmaltz in this treacly disabilities drama.
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TV Review: Sex Education is Equal Parts Horny and Heartfelt
Netflix’s sex-positive teen dramedy offers up raunch and affection in equal measure.
Logging Onto Spike Jonze’s Quietly Beautiful Her for Its Fifth Anniversary
We look back at Spike Jonze’s Her on its fifth birthday.
The Favourite Review: Yorgos Lanthimos Holds Uproarious Royal Court
Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest is a droll, hilarious dramedy about the challenges of female power and competition, with three amazing performances from Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, […]
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Review: The Coen Brothers Spin Six Tales of Old West Tragicomedy
The Coen brothers return to the Old West for a darkly comic anthology of six stories of doomed men and women out on the frontier. […]
Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Dispatch, Part 2: Level 16, Rusalka
In my last post I suggested that the unofficial theme for the 2018 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival is “horror is whatever you want it to […]
Five LGBTQ+ Films We Can’t Wait to See at the 36th Reeling Film Festival
The 36th annual LGBTQ+ film fest starts up this week in Chicago, and we talk about some of the queer films we most look forward […]
Film Review: Sierra Burgess Is a Loser Mistakes Frumpy for Failure
Netflix updates Cyrano de Bergerac for the social media era in this clunky teen rom-com, which distastefully hinges on a young girl’s perceived unattractiveness. Now […]
Film Review: Netflix Explores the Metaphysics of Love with The Laws of Thermodynamics
Mateo Gil’s Spanish rom-com mockumentary tumbles toward entropy with beautiful visuals, but a scattered story and weak protagonist. As any science fiction nerd can tell […]
Ken Marino’s Canine Comedy Dog Days is Ruff Around the Edges
While trying to chase both sentimentality and laughs, Ken Marino’s ensemble canine comedy ends up barking up the wrong tree. If you knew Ken Marino […]