Reviews
How Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story Turns Gaps in History Into Convincing Truth
MONSTER: THE LIZZIE BORDEN STORY turns one of America’s most famous unsolved murders into a remarkably persuasive story about motive, memory and…
PRIMETIME Review: Robert Pattinson’s Chris Hansen Movie Becomes the Thing It Hates
Robert Pattinson commits completely to Primetime, but A24’s surreal Chris Hansen “fever dream” is…
Runner Is a Solid Dad Movie That Squanders Owen Wilson’s Comic Potential
Runner is fast, simple and entertaining from beginning to end, but a strangely restrained…
The Wrecking Crew wrecked my expectations — Bautista and Momoa bring the heart
Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa bring huge action, real chemistry, Native Hawaiian culture, and…
Ted Lasso Season 4 Isn’t Too Positive — Ted Is Hurting
Ted Lasso Season 4 isn’t really about fixing a women’s football team. It’s about…
Kenneth Branagh: From Shakespeare to the Russian Jackie Chan in Mayday
Mayday is exactly my kind of movie: fast, funny and completely committed to having…
Netflix Keeps Trying to Murder My Children, and I Keep Pressing Play
I did not set out to spend several nights wondering whether fictional children were…
Lanterns Broke John Stewart’s Comic Canon. And It Worked.
I spent the last two weeks arguing about whether comic-book adaptations should respect canon.…
Coyote vs. Acme Review: Wile E. Coyote Finally Gets His Day in Court
Coyote vs. Acme is exactly the movie Wile E. Coyote deserved: clever, chaotic, surprisingly…
MICHAEL Is Beautifully Performed — but It Stops Short of the Harder Questions
MICHAEL is an entertaining, beautifully acted look at Michael Jackson’s rise to superstardom… but…