The Multiverse’s Gateway to Despair
A review of Everything Everywhere All at Once, starring Michelle Yeoh.
The Northman’s Closed Viking Cosmos
A review of The Northman, starring Alexander Skarsgård.
The Enduring Appeal of Star-Centered Storytelling
A review of Death on the Nile and The Lost City.
The Slap Heard Round the World
What were the voters thinking? What was Will Smith thinking? In the dialectic of history, maybe those answers don’t matter.
The Batman Is a Tolerable Return to Gotham
A review of The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson.
Kimi Is a Successful Thriller for the Covid Era
A review of ‘Kimi,’ starring Zoë Kravitz.
The Lost Daughter’s Failed Take on Maternal Ambivalence
The Lost Daughter is interesting in its parts but, as a whole, not particularly good.
Don’t Look Up Misreads the Times
The idea that technocracy itself, and not just its populist antagonist, might fail under conditions of existential threat is entirely foreign to the movie.