All ten episodes of “The Great” season 2 were screened for this review. Huzzah! Hulu’s The Great is back for its second season of vicious quips, gorgeous costumes, and deliberately inaccur…
All the Bright Places Review: Elle Fanning impresses in new Netflix adaptation
After the incredibly bewitching Hearts Beat Loud, Brett Haley returns with a story that is at turns tender, but also very aware of its subject matter. Amidst the pain of our past, we can find solace i…
‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ Review: A Stylish, Frantic, and Morally Absurd Sequel
Disney’s grand experiment of continuously remaking its animated properties has reached a critical mass in more ways than one. While massive nostalgia plays like The Lion King and Aladdin have re…
Teen Spirit Movie Review: Elle Fanning gleams in Max Minghella’s electrifying feature debut
In a word, Max Minghella’s directorial debut Teen Spirit is dualized: at once unfussy and familiar, inventive and invigorating. Wholly enlivening. There is a palpable confidence to the musical drama t…
Mary Shelley Movie Review: An emotionally tumultuous look at an artist’s inner demons
There’s no worth in trying to deny that Mary Shelley is an utterly familiar biopic. Much more though in the vein of a Victorian era literary adaptation (think Far From the Madding Crowd) than so…
Movie Review: The Vanishing of Sidney Hall is a tonal disaster
Perhaps the greatest tragedy of The Vanishing of Sidney Hall is that nobody told writer/director Shawn Christensen that his gag-on-impact green smoothie of dated arthouse tropes was, in fact, a comedy…
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 a…