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...
Crude Oil
Every show deserves some time to find itself and its audience. The first season of Paramount+’s Landman was a polished primetime drama that didn’t need...
Avatar: Flame War
Avatar: Fire and Ash opens with a filmed statement by James Cameron and his actors warning against the dangers of artificial intelligence taking over the...
Housemaid: A Room of One’s Own
The Housemaid is not a remake of the classic 1960 South Korean film by that name, which has been remade a bunch of times...
Ella McCay: I’m Not With Her
It didn’t take long. We weren’t a minute into Ella McCay when the onscreen narrator (Julie Kavner) tells us about the title character, “I’m...
Scarlet for Me, Scarlet for You
Remember my holiday movie preview last week, where I said that Mamoru Hosoda’s Scarlet wasn’t likely to hit our theaters until February? Yeah, never...
Hamnet: About a Boy
These are the facts: William Shakespeare had a son named Hamnet. The boy died of bubonic plague at the age of 11. Shortly after...
