Movie Reviews A Working Man: Jason Statham in the Most Statham Film
There is a specific pleasure in watching a film that knows exactly what it is and commits to being that thing without ap...
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Movie Reviews Sinners: Ryan Coogler’s Most Personal Film
Sinners opens in the Mississippi Delta in 1932, and it announces its intentions in the first ten minutes: this is a film...
Movie Reviews Thunderbolts: Marvel Finds Its Way Back Through the Broken Ones
Marvel films have not been short on ambition in recent years. What they have been short on is the willingness to sit ins...
Movie Reviews The Bluff: The Woman Who Sealed Her Bloody Past
The Bluff is set in the Caribbean in the early 18th century, and it opens with a woman who is trying very hard to be som...
Movie Reviews Hamnet: On Living as Shakespeare’s Wife
Hamnet opens with a woman mixing herbs in a cottage garden, her hands moving with the assurance of someone who has spent...
Drama & TV Rooster (Steve Carell): The Comedy That Quietly Cuts
There is a sequence in Rooster — roughly midway through the first season — where the protagonist attends a party at a fo...
Anime STEINS;GATE: Every Time You Rewind, Something Breaks
The premise of STEINS;GATE sounds familiar: a group of young people accidentally discover a method for sending messages ...
Movie Reviews Wuthering Heights (Fennell): Love as Curse
Wuthering Heights has been adapted for film and television more times than any other English novel except, perhaps, Prid...
Movie Reviews The Super Mario Galaxy Movie: On Expanding a Universe
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is, formally speaking, a sequel to the 2023 animated film — the same character design langu...
Drama & TV Esa Noche: What Are We Choosing Not to See?
Esa Noche is a Spanish-language drama that uses a single evening — a dinner party in a comfortable urban apartment, the ...