Tron has always been a style-over-substance franchise.Its narrative gobbledygook about digital realms—which has only grown more outdated and nonsensical since the initial 1982 film—was overshadowed by its arresting computerized imagery ...
Did you know that the same real-life serial killer inspired the likes of Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs? Ryan Murphy’s latest Netflix series, ...
Time and distance often prove a benefit to understanding and processing unspeakable tragedies, especially when tackling them through a dramatic lens. Nonetheless, One Day in October uses immediacy to its ...
Familial relations are idiosyncratic and complicated, frequently defined by manipulations, deceptions, projections, and performances, and they’re plumbed for both comedy and bittersweet drama in Father Mother Sister Brother. Winner of ...
The V/H/S/ franchise may not have produced a single across-the-board masterpiece, but across its eight installments, it’s delivered more than its fair share of memorably monstrous sights, be it a ...
In a manner similar to Steven Soderbergh’s Presence, Good Boy assumes a unique perspective on haunted-house mayhem—namely, that of a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever whose loyalty to his master ...
Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, The Long Kiss Goodnight, The Nice Guys) has been making action buddy comedies for nearly four decades, but with Play Dirty, his signature template feels a ...
Jay Kelly isn’t just about movie star narcissism—it’s an act of it as well. Noah Baumbach’s saccharine, toothless, and cheesily meta film is headlined by George Clooney as a thinly ...
As the masked Phantom wordlessly led an audience member out of the room, a woman broke the silence to ask in a slightly panicked voice, “Where’s he taken my daughter?”Harmless, ...
Broadway play Punch’s excellent, visceral title is also the dark heart of the true story that inspired its making. In 2011, Jacob Dunne, then 19, killed trainee paramedic James Hodgkinson, ...
