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“The Life of Chuck” Review: God’s Dancing Accountant Trips Over His Own Feet
Chuck is large, Chuck contains multitudes....
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“Materialists” Review: Love Dies To Be Reborn In Celine Song’s 21st Century Romance
Song’s follow-up to "Past Lives" is a romantic not-comedy that is entrancing, honest, and heartfelt....
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“Always Hold On To Smallville” Review: A Poignant Podcast Eclipses Its Inspiration
“Always Hold On To Smallville” is better—wiser, wittier, more emotional—than “Smallville” itself....
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Last Mission: Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, and the Unfulfilled Promise of “The Final Reckoning”
“The Final Reckoning” is one of the bitterest and most baffling cinematic disappointments of my lifetime....
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“Being Maria” Review: Dancing Beyond the Degradations of “Last Tango in Paris”
While most biographical movies are infected with momentousness, “Being Maria” is a lithe series of vignettes....
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“Black Bag” Review: Thinker, Traitor, Fassbender, Spy
Like Soderbergh's “Ocean’s” trilogy, “Black Bag” is a less a story than style bath, bubbling with dashing performers and delectable fashions....
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“Mickey 17” Review: Major Pattinson, You’re Pretty in the Most Peculiar Way
I have some bad news for Robert Pattinson: He is a charming, handsome, and charismatic man....
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“Cleaner” Review: Live Dirty or Clean Hard
“Cleaner” could have been the existential slapstick thriller of the season. Alas, it has other ideas....
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“Asura” Review: A Cerebral Soap Opera From the Director of “Shoplifters”
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Netflix series is about four sisters and the unfaithful father they’re stuck with....
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“The Magic Hours” Review: A Brilliant Biography of Terrence Malick’s One Big Soul
It is a book about Malick, and also a Malickian book....
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