It’s one thing to hear your upstairs neighbors having better sex than you. It’s another to invite them downstairs for dinner. That’s the bad decision at the center

There are bad movies you resent because they never had a pulse, and there are disappointing movies you keep trying to will into shape as you’re watching them.

Cinema keeps circling back to a familiar male fantasy, probably because men keep finding new ways to pretend they invented it: A woman is written, sculpted, programmed, wished

“History has no reset keys,” Noah Scanlon (Colin Firth) warns at one point in Disclosure Day. He says it to Daniel Kellner (Josh O’Connor), who has stolen extraterrestrial

One of the first things I thought while watching Backrooms had very little to do with horror, internet folklore, or Kane Parsons’ unlikely leap from YouTube to A24.

It is a strange thing to sit before a Star Wars movie and feel the galaxy getting smaller. Not visually, of course; The Mandalorian and Grogu has the

Twenty years is a strange amount of time for a sequel (unless you’re Top Gun: Maverick, in which case you rewrite the rules). It’s long enough for nostalgia

There’s a moment about five seconds into Michael when the artist’s familiar “hee-hee” blares and the Michael Jackson Estate logo flashes on screen. It’s a small thing, but

In Monument, directed by Bryan Singer, the Israelis are still in Lebanon after the invasion that began in 1982 with Operation Peace for Galilee. The South Lebanon Army

If you’ve seen Gravity, Interstellar, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and The Martian, you’ve seen Project Hail Mary. It’s that blatant in how it lifts, calls back, and occasionally

There’s a particular cruelty in doing everything right and still end up losing. You work hard, you climb the ladder, you buy the house, you provide for your

“How could human beings do that? The answer was very clear. They believed that what they were doing was right.” The uplifting yet heartbreaking documentary For the Living

In the wild ride that is The Disinvited, a man grapples with the emotional turmoil triggered by rejection. It is the beginning of Carl’s descent into something dark,

After a couple of years of navigating through the weird yet endearing filmography of Nathan Hill, I’ve grown fond of the actor/producer/director. I love independent movies when they

Finding Nicole continues prolific indie filmmaker Harvey Wallen’s journey in trying to abandon the typecast and the comfort zone of his past films. Wallen is no stranger to