Moment: Sorry, Charli
I don’t know enough about the music of Charlotte Aitchison a.k.a. Charli xcx to call myself a fan, though I’ve tended to admire the...
Secret Agent: Moura Than Usual
The Secret Agent missed out on a Best Picture Oscar nomination last week, though it still has a chance to win the Best International...
Send Help: Girlboss
I didn’t know that I needed the feral, unhinged, blood-soaked version of Rachel McAdams in my life, but I did. That’s the one who...
Testament of Ann Lee: Shake It!
The Testament of Ann Lee is the greatest Christian musical film ever made, even if the competition isn’t exactly God’s plenty: Godspell, Sister Act,...
28 Years Later: Red Devil
It takes a mighty special filmmaker to reboot the Candyman series and then turn around and do a Black gay update of Henrik Ibsen....
No Other Choice: Making Paper
Ask most people to name a film by Park Chan-wook, and they’ll say Oldboy. That movie came out more than 20 years ago, a...
Viva New Vegas
Open-world games like the Fallout ones are well known for letting the player go almost anywhere and do almost anything. They’re also famous for having...
The Top 10
Who was it who said that a critic’s year-end Top 10 list isn’t really a list of their 10 favorite films? Rather, it deliberately...
Marty Supreme: Paddle to the Metal
A couple of years ago, people started speaking of Timothée Chalamet and other male actors as “rodent men,” with their prominent teeth and messy...
Peanuts for Christmas
Is there anything left to say about A Charlie Brown Christmas? Since it first aired on CBS 60 years ago this month, the 25-minute...
