Snow White: First Light I See Tonight
Let’s get my least favorite part of this review out of the way and run down all the controversies that have dogged the live-action...
Black Bag: Spies in the House of Love
Steven Soderbergh came up as a young Turk in the late 1980s, exploding Hollywood narrative conventions and exploring new layers of metafiction in sex,...
Novocaine: Comfortably Numb
Jack Quaid is having himself a season. The son of Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan made his film debut back in 2012, being shot...
Mickey 17: I Think We’re a Clone Now
Read the fine print. That seems to be the message of this season’s movies. The villain of Companion trips himself up because he fails...
My Dead Friend Zoe: She’s Not There
If this job has taught me one thing, it’s that filmmakers can make funny movies out of even really grim subjects. America’s wars in...
Oscar’s Gold
Honestly, some evil part of me wishes that Donald Trump had withheld federal aid from California after this winter’s wildfires, because then you’d really...
No Other Land: Don’t Tread on Me
Our idiot president has said that the Gazans should go find a homeland somewhere else. If he’s willing to put them up in Trump...
Captain America: Fly Like a Falcon
Who decided that these Marvel superhero movies all needed to be 3-hour baggy affairs? Not that I didn’t appreciate those films on their terms,...
Armand: Ain’t Misbehavin’
Renate Reinsve did not receive an Oscar nomination for The Worst Person in the World, but she did get noticed. This past year, she...
I’m Still Here: Desaparecido
Now that the Emilia Pérez Oscar campaign has turned into a tire fire, the foreign film to watch in the Oscar race is probably...
