Tag: Review

Though The Amateur is a new movie, and a fairly entertaining one, in many ways it feels like a missive ...

The only thing that stretches credulity more than a woman president who picks up an automatic weapon to blast a ...

The seventh season of Black Mirror is, relatively speaking, quite good. I say this as a longtime skeptic of creator ...

When money gets tight, as it certainly is in Hollywood at the moment, industries default to dependable formulas. Which is ...

The first thing Molly, the protagonist of the new FX dramedy Dying for Sex, does after learning she has incurable cancer ...

In a movie climate where remakes tend to draw sneers of derision and claims that people have just gotten too ...

Cordelia Cupp is not easily intimidated. That’s the main thing the denizens of the White House learn when Cordelia—said to ...

Female-facing horror finds a striking new voice in Julia Max, making her feature debut at SXSW with The Surrender, which, ...

“Bit of a toughie, this one,” are the prophetic first words of this gritty urban thriller by East London-born director ...

Like Alexandre O. Philippe, Rodney Ascher is a director who pushes the interpretive limits of what a documentary can do, ...

Bong Joon-ho isn’t a subtle director, and he never has been. The ominous killer-on-the-loose thriller Memories of Murder, the sardonic ...

“If it was up to me,” an idealistic Hollywood executive played by Seth Rogen assures his assistant in the series ...

No one does self-deprecation like Conan O’Brien. His inexhaustible capacity for cracking jokes at his own expense is what made ...

Few film-makers have as varied a CV as Richard Linklater’s; from the box-office hit School of Rock to his experiments ...

Steve Martin took the stage at 30 Rock on Sunday to deliver the monologue for NBC's Saturday Night Live 50th ...

Mo Najjar lives in Houston. Manifested in a wardrobe heavy on Astros merch, his hometown pride is unmistakable. After growing ...

Considering the world has gone mad, this ought to be the ultimate era for chaos comedy: movies in which alligators ...

It takes some guts to follow in the footsteps of writer James Schamus and director Ang Lee, but Andrew Ahn ...

The snap, crackle and pop of vinyl marks the start of The Ballad of Wallis Island, a music-themed romcom that’s ...

“We should have gone to Bora Bora like the Pattersons,” says Delores (Sarah Goldberg) in Bubble & Squeak, writer-director Evan ...