film reviews
'Bros' Is the Funniest Rom-Com in Ages
Directed by Nicholas Stoller
PUBLISHED Sep 29, 2022
Periodically on Twitter, a specific Billy Eichner video goes viral, featuring a clip from his game show Billy on the Street in which he app...
'Bad Sisters' Dances on the Grave of the Worst Guy Ever
Developed by Sharon Horgan, Dave Finkel and Brett Baer
PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2022
Whodunits are typically told from the perspective of a detective, but Irish black comedy Bad Sisters flips the script by centring the very...
'Pearl' Is as Beautiful as It Is Disturbing
Directed by Ti West
PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2022
Pearl the movie? Great. Pearl the character? She may look sweet, but she's just about the worst daughter anyone could ask for. Clearly, the...
'Don't Worry Darling' Leaves Its Best Drama Off Screen
Directed by Olivia Wilde
PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2022
Given all the behind-the-scenes drama surrounding Don't Worry Darling, it was almost inevitable that the film itself wouldn't be nearly as...
Netflix's Gratuitous 'Blonde' Fails Marilyn Monroe
Directed by Andrew Dominik
PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2022
Blonde opens with a young Norma Jeane (Marilyn Monroe's real name) and her mother, Gladys (Julianne Nicholson), a mentally ill alcoholic wh...
'Butcher's Crossing' Is the Nicolas Cage Horror-Western We've Been Waiting For
Directed by Gabe Polsky
PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2022
Butcher's Crossing is the existential, social commentary, environmental, horror-skewing, Nicolas Cage-starring Western we've all been waiti...
'Andor' Is an Enjoyable but Inessential 'Star Wars' Story
Created by Tony Gilroy
PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2022
Andor is a prequel to 2016's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — which is to say it's a spinoff of a spinoff, and the folks at Star Wars might b...
'The Silent Twins' Gives a Voice to Outsider Art
Directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska
PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2022
It's a rare but precious thing to glimpse the nitty gritty of what it looks like for women to create art — and it's doubly precious and imp...