Katey Stoetzel
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film/tv critic across the web. former podcaster. TV Editor for The Young Folks. member of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle (KCFCC). find me @kateypretzel

Supernatural 13×10-13×12 Review: Women Find a Place in the World of Supernatural

I’m officially back in the Supernatural game and I couldn’t be happier. As I was trudging through feet of snow in Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival, I missed the return of Supernatural three weeks ago. This, unfortunately,…

The X-Files 11×04 Review: “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat”

With each new season of The X-Files, the episode I’m most excited about is the one written by Darin Morgan. In the past, his episodes have been odd, funny, and profound, telling the more unusual X-files stories through quirk and…

Sundance 2018 Review: I Think We’re Alone Now

I Think We’re Alone Now is a beautiful film. It hits all the apocalypse tropes, but it’s more concerned about the people who are left than why everyone else is gone. Director Reed Morano and writer Matt Makowsky’s character study of…

Sundance 2018 Review: Wildlife

Paul Dano’s directorial debut is a quiet, contemplative view of the everyday struggles of Americans in the 60s. In the midst of economic struggle, 14-year-old Joe (Ed Oxenbould) watches the disintegration of his parent’s marriage while navigating his new life…

Sundance 2018 Review: Hereditary

Full disclosure — when it comes to horror, you’ll typically find me hiding behind my hands, but nothing has shaken me more than Ari Aster’s Hereditary. At just over two hours, it’s an unrelenting, dread-inducing portrait of a family descending…

Sundance 2018 Review: You Were Never Really Here

As a slow burn psychological thriller, You Were Never Really Here delivers a brutal look into the life of a tormented hired gun named Joe (Joaquin Phoenix). Director Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin) understands how to wound…

Sundance 2018 Review: Blindspotting

Blindspotting is a comedy, except when it’s not. The switches are jarring, but that’s real life. One minute, you’re driving home from work after a seemingly normal day, the next, you’re a witness to a police shooting against an unarmed…