How I Learned to Appreciate the Star Wars Prequels
For all their terrible screenwriting and wooden acting, the Lucas prequels were at least trying to extend the original trilogy.
The King of Staten Island Is a Return to Judd Apatow’s Comfort Zone
Apatow's caution leaves his story caught between comedy and drama.
The Best Nineties Summer Movies
I recommend for your viewing pleasure the Five Summer Movies That Will Make You Feel Like You’re in the 1990s Once Again.
Arkansas: Clark Duke’s Rambling Southern Noir
Meet the latest of Vince Vaughn’s ill-fated big men.
Onward’s World Could Use a Little More Magic
I’m pretty sure that if I’d seen this film in the darkness of the theater, I would have walked away thinking “B-minus” instead of “A-minus.”
The Pleasures of Autumn de Wilde’s Emma.
The movie heightens the costumed formality, the precise ritual, the almost absurd theater of the Georgian gentry.
The Invisible Man and the Secret to Elisabeth Moss’s Stardom
Watching Moss’s character move from terror to relief to greater terror, and then fight back, you can see what made her an icon on TV.
Parasite’s Class-Conflict Nightmare
Bong Joon-ho delivers defiant strangeness once again.
Adam Sandler’s Overlooked Uncut Gems
A little Oscar counterprogramming, if high tension and white-knuckling are your thing.
Little Women and 1917 Should Get a Joint Best Picture
A look at the Academy Award nominations