Armand

A new Renate Reinsve movie is always a reason to celebrate, especially one like this which lets her fully utilize her wonderful range.

Captain America: Brave New World

Julius Onah throws The Winter Soldier into the microwave a decade later, and expects us to applaud.

Bring Them Down

"Y'know what they say. Where there's livestock, there's dead stock."

Heart Eyes

"You can be so Clueless sometimes. It's one of the 10 Things I Hate About You, honestly. You can't let him go to his Best Friend's Wedding and hook up with a bunch of Bridesmaids and move to Notting Hill."

Love Me

The core theme of Love Me destined it to be labeled a pandemic-era movie. While Americans had already been experiencing epidemic levels of loneliness in the late 2010s, the outbreak of COVID-19 and subsequent lockdowns highlighted what was already there while deepening that isolation. We were drowning in a preponderance

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

"In the newly independent Congo, the role of the Congolese army will remain the same role it always played since 1886 when Leopold II created this army."

Grand Theft Hamlet

Transforming an actor's worst fear from "forgetting my lines" to "getting blown up by a stranger dressed as a cowboy stripper".

Pop Culture Maniacs

A brief announcement.

Presence

It should surprise no one that Soderbergh's ghost story is far more concerned with its creative conceit than being scary. And that's a good thing.

Hard Truths

"Why can’t you enjoy life?" "I don’t know!...Haunted. Haunted. It’s not fair."

Sing Sing

"We don’t say that in here. We use 'beloved'."

September 5

"It's not about politics, it's about emotion."