Movie Review: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
It’s finally here! Judy Blume has been famously clear for years that she didn’t want to adapt Margaret because how beloved and important that book …
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Movie Review: How to Blow Up a Pipeline
What a title! Pitching this movie to investors must have made financing How to Blow Up a Pipeline pretty easy. That means Daniel Goldhaber’s trickiest …
Movie Review: A Thousand And One
James Baldwin could have written something like this. A Thousand And One at its best plays like a beautiful poem, celebrating parents everywhere for all …
Movie Review: John Wick: Chapter 4
I’m sure George Miller knew what he had. Sometimes it just takes a while. Miller is the director of all the Mad Max Movies. But …
Movie Review: Close
How many friends do you have when you were 6? When you were 12? 15? Growing up takes your life in so many directions with …
Movie Review: Good Night Oppy
Call it the Wall E effect. Good Night Oppy could have been a straightforward story about a really successful NASA project. But they just HAD …
Movie Review: Navalny
In the United States, I have to remind myself sometimes how lucky we are politically. Rival political parties aren’t so opposed to one another that …
Movie Review: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
I’m so mad at myself. How had I not heard of Nan Goldin before? Laura Poitras, the Citizenfour documentarian, has a knack for finding these …
Movie Review: The Menu
No industry is more ripe for a humiliating satire than the upscale restaurant industry. Like all artists catering to the super rich, the chefs and …
Movie Review: The Banshees of Inisherin
I have a few filmmakers who always find my funny bone. There’s obvious ones, like Judd Apatow, or Adam McKay, who’ve made some of the …