Film: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
By now, the MCU has lost most of its capacity for surprise, so the most surprising aspect of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) may just be how enjoyable it …
TV: The Resort (Season 1)
In an incredible year of television, it’s impossible not to notice the pattern: the shows that speak to my heart in 2022 reflect an atmosphere of collective grief. Mark S.’s …
TV: The Good Place (Season 4)
Given the dire state of reality these past four years, what a boon it’s been having The Good Place lifting our fiction. Michael Schur’s brilliant comedy mixing fantasy and ethical …
Film: Midsommar
Midsommar (2019) is a weird, mesmerizing movie. Possessing many of the tropey earmarks of the horror genre, it’s also atypical of it, less a jump-scare fright-fest than an unsettling, disturbing …
Comedy in the Age of Political Chaos
The real world isn’t all that hilarious these days, but at least we still have comedy. Comedy is the TV genre I’m most scattershot about reviewing—I tend to watch it …
TV: The Good Place (Season 1)
The era of Peak TV may be dominated by dark visions, but fortunately there’s still room for upbeat fare like The Good Place, an unusual, smart, and effervescent genre comedy …