‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’: A Masterful Exploration of Love
The Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay Winner is a stunning portrayal of love through the gaze of an artist.
A group of women hum different notes around a fire. As they get...
‘I Lost My Body’: A Hand’s Odyssey
Content warning: this article contains spoilers
Why can’t French films ever just be normal? Just once. Must everything be beautiful and profound, not just in spite of, but because of its strangeness? Maybe not, but...
‘The Lodge’: An Elegant Horror Movie that Stumbles at the Last Hurdle
Lately, there appears to be a resurgence of high-quality, atmospheric horror movies free of cheap scares. Films like “Midsommar” and “The Lighthouse” craft their horror through uncomfortable tension rather than relying on tired tropes....
This Is a Review of ‘Horse Girl’ Starring Alison Brie, Thanks
Saddle up, horse girls — Alison Brie’s “Horse Girl” is now on Netflix. The film premiered at Sundance in January, but was released to the masses this past Friday, Feb. 7. Directed by Jeff...
‘And Then We Danced’ Shows the Freedom Within the Language of Dance
Sweden’s Oscar submission opened to buzz at the Cannes Film Festival, but in Georgia, the country the film is set in, it opened to intense protest. Due to the LGBTQ+ content of the film,...
Extremism Burns Slowly in the Mind of ‘Young Ahmed’
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s “Young Ahmed” is deceptively bright. The first thing that comes to mind when reflecting on the film is the quality of the light. It barely features a hint of cool-colored...
‘The Turning’ Reanimates Tropes That Should Stay Dead
“The Turning,” based on the 1898 Henry James short story “The Turn of the Screw,” is a horror film in which Kate, a young teacher (Mackenzie Davis), is hired to become a live-in tutor...
In ‘Beanpole’ Peacetime is Anything But
When war is over, is there ever peace? What happens to those most affected? How do they go back to the lives they had before the war? All these are questions posed by the...
‘The Good Place’ Walks Through the Final Door
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I was just five minutes into the series finale of “The Good Place” when I started crying.
When the penultimate episode of the show closed with the characters getting their...
‘Sex Education’ Season Two Explores the Serious Side of Sexuality
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An awkward, sexually inexperienced high school boy charging his classmates for his (unqualified) sex advice — to call the premise of 'Sex Education' interesting would be vastly underselling it....
The Patched Film Adopts the Worst From Video Games
Any film or video game buff will tell you that when the two mediums come together the result is often ugly and offensive. Video game films gave us such abominations as the peanut-headed, humanoid...
‘Dollface’: An Unexpectedly Necessary and Hilarious Rollercoaster Ride
“Dollface” is a show that audiences did not even know they needed. The Hulu original comedy about the bonds of female friendships and womanhood follows the journey of Jules (Kat Dennings), who tries to...
