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Displaying all articles tagged:
Movie
movie review
Sept. 27, 2024
Mountains
Is a Quietly Magnificent Debut
Monica Sorelle’s first feature film is a vibrant story of gentrification and generational divides in Miami’s Little Haiti.
By
Angelica Jade Bastién
rocky start
Nov. 11, 2023
The Marvels’
Opening Weekend Isn’t Feline Great
It might become the lowest opening-weekend box office for a Disney Marvel film.
By
Alejandra Gularte
obits
Oct. 14, 2023
Piper Laurie, Star of
Carrie
and
Twin Peaks,
Dies at 91
The actress earned three Oscar nominations across three decades.
By
Bethy Squires
meow
Sept. 6, 2023
Annapurrrrna Is Making a
Stray
Movie
It’s being adopted by the same team that saved
Nimona
.
By
Alejandra Gularte
fantastic
July 4, 2023
Barbie
Is Still a Personal Movie to Greta Gerwig
“Oh, man, I didn’t hide anywhere.”
By
Alejandra Gularte
party report
Apr. 26, 2023
Judy Blume Would Rewrite
It’s Me, Margaret
’s Janie for Amari Price
“To be recognized and accepted for my work, it felt great.”
By
Alejandra Gularte
at the club
Mar. 25, 2023
An Ode to John Wick’s Many Nightclub Brawls
The whole world was John Wick’s dance floor, and what a delight to watch him bust a move (and some heads).
By
Roxana Hadadi
sláy
Jan. 14, 2023
Lydia Tár on Being a Lesbian Icon: ‘I Don’t Know What It Means’
Through her spokesperson, Cate Blanchett.
By
Alejandra Gularte
backstories
Dec. 27, 2022
‘Every Movie Is a Coming-of-Age Movie’: A Conversation About
My Father’s Dragon
The screenwriter and director of Cartoon Saloon’s latest,
My Father’s Dragon,
break down three pivotal scenes.
By
Roxana Hadadi
close reads
Dec. 27, 2022
Holy Spider
’s Ending Uncovers a Tangled Web of Misogyny
Holy Spider
is at its most precise and upsetting in the film’s final scene.
By
Roxana Hadadi
remember that time
Dec. 21, 2022
When Lindsay Lohan Was the Best Part of a Paul Schrader Movie
The Canyons
makes the case that Lohan possesses more self-awareness than we give her credit for, then or now.
By
Roxana Hadadi
here kiri kiri
Dec. 16, 2022
In Praise of Sigourney Weaver’s Teen Angst in
Avatar: The Way of Water
You’re wild for this one, Jim!
By
Roxana Hadadi
chat room
Nov. 30, 2022
Raúl Castillo on
The Inspection
’s Unexpected Gallows Humor
Even his brother thought the A24 military drama was “really, really funny.”
By
Roxana Hadadi
never been kissed
Nov. 16, 2022
What
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Needed Was a Kiss
Imagine having the chance to kiss Namor … and not doing it.
By
Roxana Hadadi
merry christmas!
Nov. 16, 2022
Kendrick Sampson Picks Up
Something From Tiffany’s
for Christmas
Insecure
’s Kendrick Sampson in a rom-com? Yes, please.
By
Alejandra Gularte
lingering questions
Nov. 7, 2022
10 Unanswered Questions to Worry About After Seeing
Don’t Worry Darling
What’s up with the dancing ladies? And the plane? What happens in Kiki Layne’s cut scenes? More important, where can I get Alice’s nail polish?
By
Roxana Hadadi
movie review
Nov. 4, 2022
Something in the Dirt
Gets Paranoid in Los Angeles
Directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s latest feels more familiar than the duo’s other work, but its enthusiasm goes a long way.
By
Roxana Hadadi
close read
Oct. 14, 2022
To Understand
Athena
, Watch
The Battle of Algiers
What the films have to say about the long-lasting impact of colonial structures is as illuminating as it is rare.
By
Roxana Hadadi
trailer mix
Oct. 4, 2022
Doctor Florence Pugh Will See You Now in
The Wonder
Pugh will star in a new period piece set in 1862 Ireland.
By
Alejandra Gularte
whole lotta hamm
Sept. 21, 2022
Confess, Fletch
Gets Jon Hamm’s Appeal Like Nothing Has Since
Mad Men
Hamm’s willingness to directly engage in a thorough send-up of Don Draper makes Fletch goofier and, well,
hammier.
By
Roxana Hadadi
coming soon
Sept. 20, 2022
Hellraiser
Looks Like a Terrifying Acupuncture Session
Who are you calling, Pinhead? (It’s Jamie Clayton.)
By
Alejandra Gularte
the snuggly duckling
Sept. 17, 2022
The Internet Knows Best: They Want Keke Palmer As Rapunzel
BRB, making a reservation at the Snuggly Duckling.
By
Alejandra Gularte
movie review
Sept. 9, 2022
What Hides in the Heart of
Saloum
Saloum
burrows its way into your raw nerve endings, your clenched teeth, your jostled bones.
By
Roxana Hadadi
close reads
Sept. 2, 2022
Baz Luhrmann’s Tortured Artists
Elvis
makes a point about exploited artists that Luhrmann first approached in
Moulin Rouge!
By
Roxana Hadadi
bad boys
Aug. 17, 2022
Zoë Kravitz Wanted ‘Boy Next Door’ Channing Tatum to Play a Dark Character
“It’s always really intriguing to have someone bring you something that literally no one else has ever thought of you for.”
By
Alejandra Gularte
found in translation
Aug. 11, 2022
The Historic Power of
Prey
Is in Your Ears
“Finally, the light came on,” the film’s Comanche language expert says. Then came the hard part.
By
Roxana Hadadi
endings
Aug. 9, 2022
Let’s Talk About the Body-Horror Ending of
Resurrection
Its contracting ambiguity and literalness make for unexpected nightmare fuel.
By
Roxana Hadadi
cut it out
July 27, 2022
What’s Happening in the Deleted Scenes From
Nope
?
Why were we denied Antlers Holst’s oversize-loungewear ’fit?
By
Roxana Hadadi
movie review
July 16, 2022
The (Literal) Stink of Corruption in
Costa Brava, Lebanon
Part family drama, part political statement, Mounia Akl’s debut is wistful and uncompromising.
By
Roxana Hadadi
close reads
July 13, 2022
Natalie Portman Put on a Cape for This?
Thor: Love and Thunder
lets down Jane Foster, who never makes it past a catchphrase in her return to the MCU.
By
Roxana Hadadi
movie review
July 1, 2022
The Forgiven
’s Toothless Indictment of White Cruelty
The satire, starring Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes, grasps for profundity but lands on insincerity.
By
Roxana Hadadi
the baz of it all
June 28, 2022
Counting the Baz-isms in Baz Luhrmann’s
Elvis
Baz Luhrmann can do many things, but he cannot do
less
— especially not in
Elvis.
By
Roxana Hadadi
no joke
June 7, 2022
Director Todd Phillips Reveals That
Joker
Sequel Is on the Way
You know he had to deux it to ‘em.
By
Alejandra Gularte
tonka about it
June 6, 2022
Movie-Star Chimp Found Alive After Owner Fakes His Death
And Alan Cumming is “dancing a jig” over the good news.
By
Alejandra Gularte
movie review
June 3, 2022
Neptune Frost
Smirks at the Narrowness of Western Thinking
Saul Williams’s Afrofuturist, anti-colonialist film is a mission statement by way of a musical.
By
Roxana Hadadi
vulture investigates
May 28, 2022
Where Is Manny Jacinto in
Top Gun: Maverick
?
Does Tom Cruise hate Jake Jortles? An investigation.
By
Roxana Hadadi
movie review
May 27, 2022
The Comfortable Familiarity of
The Bob’s Burgers Movie
If you accept the narrative’s rigidity and safety,
The Bob’s Burgers Movie
is a jubilant bit of distraction.
By
Roxana Hadadi
close reads
Apr. 27, 2022
Let’s Unpack That Diabolical Incest Scene in
The Northman
A prince creates an unalterable image of his mother and takes it with him into her bedchamber — where she destroys it.
By
Roxana Hadadi
mia
Mar. 9, 2022
Dylan O’Brien Tried to Make the
Teen Wolf
Revival Work
O’Brien chalked the move up to scheduling, while Arden Cho was reportedly offered “half the salary” of co-stars.
By
Alejandra Gularte
my single is dropping
Dec. 3, 2021
Ariana Grande and Kid Cudi’s ‘Just Look Up’ Is Astronomical
Reporting from Planet Yuh!
By
Alejandra Gularte
movie review
June 10, 2021
Mark Wahlberg’s Reincarnation Movie
Infinite
Needs a Few More Lifetimes of Work
Such a high-concept action movie, so little imagination.
By
Alison Willmore
film festival
June 9, 2021
17 Films You Should See at This Year’s Tribeca Festival
From an Ilana Glazer pregnancy-horror movie to a biographical doc about Anthony Bourdain.
movie review
June 4, 2021
Undine
Is a Perplexing Take on the Mermaid Myth
The new film from the
Phoenix
director Christian Petzold is hard to shake off, even if it also never really comes together.
By
Alison Willmore
movie review
June 4, 2021
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
Should Have Stuck to the Haunted Houses
The Patrick Wilson–Vera Farmiga horror franchise tries to depart from its previous format, with some seriously mixed results.
By
Alison Willmore
movie review
May 14, 2021
The Woman in the Window
Is a Trashy Movie Trying to Be a Classy One
The Amy Adams thriller would be better off embracing its true self.
By
Alison Willmore
movie review
May 12, 2021
Oxygen
Feels Like Something the Netflix Algorithm Vomited Up
In that sense, it’s fine?
By
Alison Willmore
movie review
May 7, 2021
Fear Not,
Here Today
Is Not a Billy Crystal-Tiffany Haddish Romantic Comedy
But you get the feeling that Crystal kind of wanted it to be?
By
Alison Willmore
movie review
Apr. 30, 2021
About Endlessness
Gloriously Collages the Absurdity and Grandeur of the Everyday
The sixth feature from Swedish director Roy Andersson finds connections between armies marching in the snow and girls dancing to music from a café.
By
Alison Willmore
movie review
Apr. 29, 2021
Without Remorse
Is Also Without a Single Moment of Excitement
How is this Michael B. Jordan action movie, which is headed to Amazon, so dreary?
By
Alison Willmore
movie review
Apr. 22, 2021
Sesame Street
Doc
Street Gang
Is About When TV Needed To Be Saved From Itself
The documentary, which celebrates the formative years of the iconic kids’ show, is also a testament to the singular forces that allowed it to happen.
By
Alison Willmore
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