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Odd, beautiful, problematic, and romantic are just a few of the adjectives I can conjure up to describe George Miller’s curious new movie about a djinn, desire, and the power of story, THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING. In theaters tomorrow- my review: https://bit.ly/3dZrJAI

Dr. Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) inhabits the perfect role in a movie that’s a story about telling stories. She works in the equally ficti

I was mixed on BODIES BODIES BODIES, a satire on Gen-Z shallowness wrapped up in a whodunnit, frequently funny and wild but perhaps not as biting as it could have been. But it also has Lee Pace popping champagne with a machete so, balance. My review: https://bit.ly/3bZ7zGd

“Bodies Bodies Bodies,” director Halina Reijn’s Gen-Z satire clothed in trappings of a whodunnit from a story by Kristen Roupenian and scree

This weekend, I was really jonesing to watch “Prey,” director Dan Trachtenberg’s prequel to/reboot of the “Predator” franchise featuring a female Comanche warrior as the main protagonist that was r…

This weekend, I was so excited to watch PREY, and then I realized: I've never seen a Predator movie! So I watched PREDATOR and then watched PREY and loved both. Wish I could've seen it in a theater. Amber Midthunder is a capital S Star. Read my review here.

The Shinkansen, or bullet train, is a network of railway lines in Japan that connect areas across the country to Tokyo, and can reach operating speeds of up to 200 miles per hour. The pacing of the…

I either enjoyed or hated BULLET TRAIN depending on which characters were on screen. But I mostly kinda liked it despite its obvious faults- what can I say, I think train movies are neat! Read my review here.

It’s often beneficial to step back and observe life from a different perspective. In the case of Marcel, we get a shell’s eye view, but the outlook of this tiny, one-eyed shell creature wearing lit…

MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON is the cinematic equivalent of the 🥺 emoji and one of the most life-affirming films I've seen recently, with loveable characters and innovative stop-motion animation. Read my review here.

Many of us have one thing, one traumatic incident, of which the slightest reminder will immediately cause any semblance of control or sanity we had to fly out the window. For Margaret (Rebecca Hall…

WHAT is going on and WHY is it so scary? Rebecca Hall once more proves she's better than us all in RESURRECTION, a solid thriller about a toxic relationship that goes in an unexpectedly weird direction. In theaters this Friday and VOD next week. Read my revew here.

I will cast abominable filth upon you, make you vile, and make you a spectacle. Writer and director Jordan Peele opens his third feature film, “Nope,” with that verse from the Bible’s Book of Nahum…

Jordan Peele's third feature is also his messiest, but I like it the more I think about it. NOPE is sendup of alien movies that isn't so much about the fear of being watched as it is about those who thrive on it. Now playing in theaters- read my review here.

Out of all the bad movies that have already been made about covid, few have been as awkward and downright insensitive as ALONE TOGETHER, a lockdown rom-com which Katie Holmes writes, directs, and stars in. In theaters Friday, and VOD next week. My review: https://bit.ly/3yPn8YE

We’re over two years into this thing now, and I think I’ve figured out at least partially why no movie that centers around the COVID-19 pand

He was an astrophysicist who dreamed of sending the first Lebanese man into space. She was a Swiss artist who moved to Beirut to work as a nanny. For this seemingly unusual pair, it was love at fir…

Chloé Mazlo's SKIES OF LEBANON is one of my favorite movies I've watched this year, a vibrant love story and a searing exploration of how conflict can tear that love apart. Perfectly melds animation w/live action too. Opens in NYC this Friday- read my review here.

With 2017’s “Thor: Ragnarok,” director Taika Waititi injected new life into what had otherwise become the dullest standalone character series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He made it more color…

THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER presents some interesting concepts- shaken faith, absent gods, rediscovering love- but they are overwhelmed by a film that is otherwise messy, ugly, and confused, trying too hard to replicate the success of its predecessor. Now playing in theaters- read my review here.

Baz Luhrmann’s ELVIS is a delirious spectacle, and Austin Butler came close to fooling me with his spot-on portrayal of the King. But the film depicts Elvis as more of a vibe than a person. Read my review here.

With a drawn-out, deep howl and a vibration that starts at the toes and rolls up through his entire body, a pivotal scene early in director

“Lightyear” is the first movie from Pixar Animation Studios to receive a theatrical release since the March 2020 run of “Onward” was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It isn’t that Pixar hasn…

Turns out when you take a character who has a conflict over not being a real person and make him a real person, he's...pretty boring. That's one of my problems with LIGHTYEAR, a film that hits its emotional high early but fast becomes a slog. Read my review here.

Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman’s Afrofuturist musical NEPTUNE FROST is both a powerful rallying cry and a mesmerizing testament to the boundlessness of the creators’ imagination. I wrote a tiny bit about it as it begins to expand to more theaters: https://bit.ly/3O5lxEj

“Neptune Frost” is the sort of film that needs to be experienced without trying too hard to unravel the intricacies of directors Saul Willia

There is likely no more egregious thing that the “Jurassic World” trilogy, or the “Jurassic Park” series as a whole, has done than reunite the trio of Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum for t…

I think I set my expectations for JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION so low it actually managed to exceed them, but any movie that makes Laura Dern's Ellie Sattler utter the phrase "slid into my DMs" is automatically cursed. Read my review here.

I have to admit, I initially wasn’t all that excited for “Top Gun: Maverick,” long-awaited (both in terms of the 36 year distance between it and its predecessor, and multiple delays, first to shoot…

"Top Gun: Maverick” is the rare legacy sequel that actually works, nicely bridging the old and new and building its stunning, cheer-worthy action scenes on a strong emotional foundation. Read my review here.

“Crimes of the Future” is not just the first film writer/director David Cronenberg has made in eight years. It’s also the first sci-fi/horro

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE is body horror king David Cronenberg’s first movie in a good minute, and while it’s as squirm-inducing as you’d expect, it’s vision of the future is also one of his strangest, funniest- and saddest. Read my review here.

In a broad sense, Chloe Okuno’s feature directorial debut WATCHER is a fairly standard voyeurism tale, but she and star Maika Monroe are doing some interesting work here that makes it compelling, dread-filled viewing. In theaters Friday- my review: https://bit.ly/3wPis3S

Julia (Maika Monroe) is outside her comfort zone. The American just moved to Bucharest with her part-Romanian husband Francis (Karl Glusman)

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