
TV: High Fidelity
When I put on High Fidelity (2020), I was just looking for something light and casual to fold laundry…
December 27, 2022When 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, 2022Lydia Millet is nothing if not versatile, and Dinosaurs (2022) shows her in my favorite mode: a contemporary setting,…
December 26, 2022Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022) is one of those rare films where…
December 26, 2022Based on the novel by Lauren Beukes, Shining Girls is another accomplished effort from Apple, a creepy crime tale…
December 18, 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, 2022Sometimes it’s impossible to turn off your internal editor/writer brain when you’re reading, and while that can be horribly…
December 17, 2022Last week, on Saturday, our beloved Cairo, the loving elder statesman of our cat trio, passed away. He was…
December 12, 2022Hulu’s Ramy has always been a serious show, despite its many eccentric, humorous moments. But the series’ long-delayed third…
December 12, 2022Sometimes when you miss the moment, it’s too late to go back. I thought that might be the case…
December 12, 2022I can’t be alone in my complicated relationship with Star Wars; the franchise did, after all, play a huge…
December 4, 2022Somehow, I made it through High-Rise (2015) without knowing it was based on a J.G. Ballard novel—which, in retrospect,…
November 22, 2022Can it be possible we’ve seen the last of Christine Baranski’s bravura turn as complex feminist lawyer Diane Lockhart?…
November 16, 2022For accessible, engaging storytelling, Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranqiuility (2022) is unsurprisingly successful, a quick and effortless…
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