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First Reformed

“Paul Schrader’s work is obsessed with men in perpetual crisis, frequently punctuated by acts of great violence. Rarely is the aura of his work so muted as it is in First Reformed, a late-career masterpiece from the purveyor of toxic masculinity in self-destruct mode. Think of the explosions of vio” read more

Damita Jo

“For allegedly being an expose on yet another side and persona within Janet Jackson that we haven't met yet, Damita Jo is pretty par for the course with all of Janet's recent output. It shares the wild inconsistency of All For You, the hyper-sexual murmuring of janet., and the autobiographical be” read more

All for You

“After a string of four genre-defining and defying masterpieces, it seems inevitable that Janet Jackson would stumble. No one releases perfect albums every time, but the drop between The Velvet Rope and All for You is prominent. The Velvet Rope was the sound of an icon seeking personal and sexual sel” read more

The Wife

“One of the blessings and obsessions of the cinematic eye is intensely observing the faces of great actors telegraphing conflicting emotions through the subtlest movements. It’s in the way a mouth may tighten while the eyes are trying to look soft and kind, or the terse body language that contrasts” read more

Vice

“I both loved and hated this movie. My feelings towards it and about the ways in which it tackles its various subjects has not settled with time. Vice is a political hit job, a takedown of American media, and an indictment of political dynasties throwing us into never-ending conflicts and quagmires o” read more

Ralph Breaks the Internet

“Let’s check in with Ralph and Vanellope after six years and see what’s new. Well, they’ve established a fun pattern of spending the day in their games, drinking root beers at Tapper’s, then talking the night away before repeating the cycle over again. But there’s a rippling in their friend” read more

Green Book

“If there’s subgenre of prestige filmmaking I’d happily never have to see again, it’s the feel-good movie about racism. It’s your movies like The Help, Driving Miss Daisy, the types that orientate the narrative about America’s racial strife around good hearted white liberals that solve the ” read more

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

“Well, I’m surprised by just how much I enjoyed this tale of art forgery and “companionable alienation,” as Chuck Bowen of Slant put it so masterfully. Can You Ever Forgive Me? is a whooper of a true story that narrows its scope down to the twin points of the criminal activity and the deliciou” read more

Bohemian Rhapsody

“Bohemian Rhapsody isn’t a movie. It’s a regurgitation of Freddie Mercury’s Wikipedia page for a little over two hours. Oh, were you hoping to learn anything else about the other members of Queen? Too bad, so sad, as they’re regulated to Mercury’s merry band of sidekicks (despite whatever l” read more

The Last Five Years

“The Last Five Years requires a more visionary mind to make the central conceit work on film, and Richard LaGravenese is not that director. He’s a wonderful writer (The Fisher King, Behind the Candelabra), but he’s something of a point-and-shoot style director. Sometimes this works to the narrati” read more

It Follows

“The horror genre is already overpopulated with an emotional hysteria regarding sex and emotional vulnerability, a strange moralism that must destroy all but the virginal would-be bride to the monster, and It Follows is merely obsessed with this strand running through the genre. The film is entirely ” read more