Review: ‘Bad Hair’ Justin Simien’s Killer Weave Horror Is A Tangled Treat
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival. Bad Hair opens on Hulu on October 23rd.*
When a black woman...
Review: ‘Radium Girls’Joey King And Abby Quinn Are Activists In Respectable Drama About A...
Filmmaker Lydia Dean Pilcher has found her niche this year exploring little-known chapters in female history. Her film A Call to Spy took a...
Review: ‘Come Play’Gillian Jacobs Struggles Through A Haunted Tablet Horror In Need Of An...
There are no shortage of films about the dangers of technology, and their propensity to consume our everyday lives. That premise is given a...
Review: ‘The True Adventures Of Wolfboy’A Surreal Coming-Of-Age Fairy Tale About Finding Self-Worth In...
At a time when demonizing the "other" is running rampant, a heartwarming film about self-acceptance is a welcome treat. The True Adventures of Wolfboy...
Review: ‘Let Him Go’Diane Lane And Kevin Costner Speak Softly And Carry A Big...
Say what you will about Man of Steel (and trust me, people have), one thing it got absolutely right was the casting of Diane...
Review: ‘Proxima’Eva Green Soars In Alice Winocour's Astronaut Drama About A Mother And Daughter's...
The last couple of years have seen a surprising amount of interest in stories about female astronauts, almost like a response to the dearth...
‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Episode 2 Review: ‘The Passenger’
This episode of The Mandalorian is going to frustrate people. How do I know? Because it frustrated the Hell out of me.
So the big...
Review: ‘Kindred’Race And Women's Rights Converge In Joe Marcantonio's Tense Gaslighting Horror
In the grim, stony English manor in which Joe Marcantonio's Kindred mostly takes place, the walls are lined with portraits of white colonialists, men...
Review: ‘Hillbilly Elegy’Amy Adams And Glenn Close Go Big In Ron Howard's Safe Adaptation...
I'll be straight-up: I hate J.D. Vance's book Hillbilly Elegy. The 2016 memoir became the go-to shorthand for political pundits looking to excuse Trump...
Review: ‘Fatman’Mel Gibson Is A Hard-Drinking, Gun-Toting Santa In A Christmas Comedy Without Holiday...
Let me be real on something here: Fatman is the sort of film most people are going to see purely for the shock, and...