Oscar Predictions and Picks: Who Will and Should Win in this Ugly, Unpredictable Season
Oscar predictions and picks: who will win and should win in a tight race between Anora, The Brutalist, Conclave, and Emilia Perez?
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Last Breath Review: A Heart-Pounding Dive
With the added benefit of a full studio budget behind it, deep sea drama Last Breath, starring Simu Liu and Woody Harrelson, is just as exhilarating as the 2019 documentary.
Grand Theft Hamlet Review: The Virtual Life Is Well Worth Living
Grand Theft Hamlet chronicles the idea of on William Shakespeare’s Elizabethan play, Hamlet, inside the virtual world of Grand Theft Auto.
The Monkey Review: Come for the Childhood Trauma, Stay for the Body Count
The Monkey is a wildly entertaining film with a healthy dose of nihilism and a few gallons of viscera.
The Oscar-Nominated Live Action Shorts Are Cinematic Broccoli
The Oscar nominated live action short films include The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent, Anuja, The Last Ranger, A Lien, and I Am Not a Robot.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy Review
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is a film full of joy, laughs, and perhaps surprisingly, some tears. And it may just be the best entry in the series yet.
The 2025 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts: Beautiful Men? Yuck!
The Oscar nominated animated short films boast five worthy nominees in Yuck!, Beautiful Men, Wander to Wonder, Magic Candies, and In the Shadow of Cypress.
Captain America: Brave New World Review: The New Cap Takes Flight
If the Iron Man films are the heart of the MCU, then the Captain America series is its soul. Steve Rogers’ unshakable moral code often placed him at odds with both friends and foes, leading to some of the MCU’s most thrilling conflicts. Losing Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man and Chris Evans’ Captain America has […]
Parthenope Review: The Boob Parade
Parthenope proves that nobody films boobs quite as beautifully as Paolo Sorrentino does, but also that he cannot write a female lead to save his life.
The Classics Shelf: The 1934 Venice Film Festival
Revisiting the films of the 1934 Venice Film Festival, including It Happened One Night, Little Women, Twentieth Century, and Masquerade in Vienna.
Love Hurts Review: Ke Huy Quan Gets the Lead Role He’s Always Deserved but It Disappoints
Love Hurts underuses and disappoints Ke Huy Quan (and his goodwill-generating performance) in his first lead role.
Bring Them Down Review
For his directorial debut, writer-director Christopher Andrews paints a portrait of desperate men whose feud enmeshes two families in inconceivable ways.
Heart Eyes Review: Two and a Half Out of Four Hearts
Heart Eyes, the horror romcom from Josh Ruben, Christopher Landon, and Michael Kennedy, is a gorehound's dream, and a romantic's nightmare.
Sundance 2025: Two Women Review
Chloe Robichaude and Catherine Leger's Two Women offers a warm and witty sex farce that plays like the White Lotus in Quebec's suburbs.
Sundance 2025: Plainclothes Review
Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey burn up the screen in Plainclothes, although truly chaotic editing often snuffs their spark.
