Green Knight: Headless Horseman
I’ve previously aired my issues with British color-blind casting, but it’s doing one good thing: It’s turning Dev Patel into an unstoppable force. The...
Stillwater : Marseillaise
Last week, we had a movie about a straight, working-class father struggling to deal with his child’s homosexuality. This week comes another one, though...
Long Ways From Home
Pride Month was last month, but it’s this week that two movies about gay people reach our theaters. We start with I Carry You...
Pig in the City
I have here a movie called Pig, a suspense thriller in which the stringy-haired protagonist stares into space and says, “Who has my pig?”...
Scarlett and Black
When Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff died in Avengers: Endgame — uh, spoiler alert — I thought, “She can’t be dead, because there’s going to be...
Zola: Y’all Wanna Hear a Story
To prepare for watching Zola, I did something I’ve never done before: I read an entire Twitter thread. Was it ever worth it. In...
Everything’s F9
My problem with the Fast and the Furious series was always that the movies were never silly enough. If you’re going to become a...
Rita Moreno, Sparks: Behind the Music
This week, the main new things at the multiplex are two documentaries about two very different musical careers and the ups and downs they’ve...
In the Heights: Dream a Little Dream
Previously, we had a big, splashy musical film for Spanish speakers. It was called Coco, and it was good. However, that was set in...
Shiva Baby: Danielle in the Lion’s Den
Whenever you think that Jewish humor is tapped out, someone else comes along and hauls something new up out of the mine. Shiva Baby...
