Reviews Archive
Archives for September 2019
The new comedy-drama marks Ryan Murphy’s Netflix debut and may be the Rosetta Stone we need for his work.
Judy faces Judy Garland’s tragedy head on — and then takes the easy way out
This sweetly romantic YA romp isn’t as subversive as its predecessor. It’s still enormous fun.
Coates’s debut novel has exquisite sentences and ideas, but the rest is a mess.
The Year of the Monkey is about 2016, and the intertwining of personal and national grief.
The season nine premiere gave classic ’80s horror tropes a workout. (Because aerobics, get it?!)
Slow, gorgeous, and unnerving, the movie gives a distinctly modern answer to man’s search for the divine.
Not every movie at the Toronto International Film Festival is big and buzzy. Here are five you’ll want to know about.
Snowpiercer and The Host director Bong Joon-ho reaches the peak of his game with a new must-see horror masterpiece.
This visually stunning show is a trippy sci-fi drama and a lovely story about a woman dealing with trauma, all in one.
Noah Baumbach’s outstanding new film turns divorce into a reminder of love’s many shades.
If movies reflect what a culture fears, this year’s TIFF was a hotbed of anxieties.
The new film, based on a true story, is a neon-soaked, incredibly fun meditation on female friendship.
A lackluster adaptation of the Pulitzer-winning novel is unlikely to please even the book’s biggest fans.
Joker aims to give the infamous supervillain a shocking stand-alone backstory. It’s not nearly as edgy as it thinks.