Spree could have gone so, so wrong — the exploitative tale of a white male loner who goes on a live-streamed murderous rampage doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. It’s a pleasant surprise, then, that the film is a fun if slight ride, neither half as smart as it thinks it is…

Everyone has those movie-going experiences that are so memorable, so impactful, that your own experience is intertwined with the art itself. Whether due to outside circumstances or the power of the movie, it becomes difficult to extract unbiased opinions from the overwhelming power of these moments. For me, there are…

“I’m guilty, huh?” “We’re all guilty, Lord knows.” Fresh on the heels of Martin Scorsese’s self-reflective masterwork The Irishman, The Criterion Collection is taking a trip back to the filmmaker’s origins with The Scorsese Shorts. The Blu-ray collects five shorts of varying lengths from the first few years of Scorsese’s…

A lot of writing about pieces of art these days boldly proclaims said piece of art as “exactly what we need right now.” From Animal Crossing to Trolls World Tour, editors are awash in articles that find the next great escape from the apocalypse we’re all facing. Sally Potter’s The…

2019’s Les Miserables doesn’t have much in common with its namesake. It’s in France, it deals with poverty and the police, theft plays a core narrative element — and that’s sort of it? …

There’s something truly exhilarating about watching a director who’s been around for a while make something that expertly combines their skills into something perfect, as if fate had ordained them to direct it. Now, this doesn’t have to be a director’s “best” film, per se, but the one that proves…

In the last few years, Hollywood has made Judy like five times. No, not specifically about Judy Garland’s life, but there’s a whole genre of movies just like this one. The films, biopics (generally about a musically talented person) that tread the same ground that was well-trodden decades ago, are…

More than just “that stripper movie with J. Lo,” Hustlers is the best crime film in years. There’s a sort of karmic comeuppance that in a month defined by conversation around the psychological impact of a male-dominated crime film (that hasn’t even come out yet) in Joker, we were also…

From The Witch to Get Out to this summer’s Midsommar, the last few years have been kind to high-concept, prestige horror. The so-called Horror Renaissance that we’re supposedly going through right now is driven by these social horror movies, packed to the brim with figurative imagery and outright unpleasant atmosphere…