
TV: Oh Jerome, No
Mamoudou Athie made a distinct impression in the somber, surreal horror series Archive 81, and it made me curious…
March 18, 2023Mamoudou Athie made a distinct impression in the somber, surreal horror series Archive 81, and it made me curious…
March 18, 2023On one level, it’s surprising a show like Poker Face could succeed in the current TV landscape, but on…
March 16, 2023If Force Majeure established Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund’s bona fides as a cinema provocateur, Triangle of Sadness (2022) etches…
March 13, 2023Like most of the universe, I missed the train on John from Cincinnati, a one-season failure from co-creators Kem…
February 25, 2023Dave Franco’s second directorial effort, Somebody I Used to Know (2023), isn’t quite as memorable as his first (The…
February 14, 2023Having enjoyed previous Mindy Kaling projects, I, well, still wasn’t particularly interested in The Sex Lives of College Girls,…
February 6, 2023Who needs protagonists with the moral high ground? Not Dead to Me, a winning dark comedy that turned its…
January 28, 2023A loopy, cartoonish trailer lured me to Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013), a comedic fantasy based…
January 16, 2023The concluding season of Derry Girls is a fucking delight. This will surprise nobody who enjoyed the earlier run,…
January 15, 2023The third season of Mythic Quest remains an amusing, effortlessly watched entry in Apple’s catalogue, even if it doesn’t…
January 7, 2023When I put on High Fidelity (2020), I was just looking for something light and casual to fold laundry…
December 27, 2022Rian Johnson’s hit Knives Out was bound to be a tough trick to replicate, but Glass Onion: A Knives…
December 26, 2022Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022) is one of those rare films where…
December 26, 2022Not many shows count as appointment television these days—especially for us card-carrying wait-for-it bingers—but HBO’s The White Lotus is…
December 18, 2022