Masaaki Yuasa's 'The Night is Short, Walk On Girl' is an colorful wonderland
Jump inside the sticky sweet world of Masaaki Yuasa, director of Lu Over The Garden Wall and Devilman Crybaby, as he masterfully crafts a tale … Continue reading
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Stuck in Middle School
Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade shows teen angst is forever
For all the things that have changed about being a teen — apps and laptops, likes and subscribes, the endless awareness that everyone else really … Continue reading
WorryFree, and Everywhere in Chains
Sorry to Bother You takes on the crazy confusion of late capitalism
Boots Riley’s debut movie is an outrageous and glorious mess. Its sympathies are intrinsically Marxist, but the aesthetics of Sorry to Bother You are a … Continue reading
Thanks for Cher-ing
Mamma Mia! sequel makes ABBA great again
The credits rolled by, and I looked around me. I was the lone male in the Springfield movie theater. But that’s okay, because this is … Continue reading
This Is Not a Drill
A father and daughter go off the grid in Oregon in Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace
Director Debra Granik’s 2010 coming-of-age drama Winter’s Bone set a new highwater mark for American independent cinema. A work of anxious discovery, ancient entanglements and … Continue reading
Being Kind Takes Work
Mister Rogers in the age of Trump
If you as a child had even a passing familiarity with Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, you don’t need anyone to tell you to hop the trolley … Continue reading
One Day You’ll Be Dead
College kids plot to steal rare books in the bizarre true-crime heist flick American Animals
In 1866, the legendary Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky released a vicious little novel called Crime and Punishment, about a poor college student, Raskolnikov, who brutally … Continue reading
It’s A Family Affair
Horrors of domestic strife, inconsolable grief and supernatural evil run rampant in Hereditary
There are a handful of movies I never tire of watching, and one of them is Rosemary’s Baby. That film, about the birth of Satan’s … Continue reading
Disobey and punish
Disobedience plays with power within a love story
Ronit (Rachel Weisz) works in a hip studio, photographing old men with Jesus tattoos in New York City when she finds out her father, a … Continue reading
Birth of a Nerf Herder
Solo movie looks at the origins of Star Wars’ iconic anti-hero, with mixed results
The galaxy far, far away hasn’t been a nice place for a long time. We’ve known this since we saw Alderaan blow up in the … Continue reading