‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ Review: Carey Mulligan’s Comedy Musical Is a Delightfully Heartfelt and Windswept Fable

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‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ Review: Carey Mulligan’s Comedy Musical Is a Delightfully Heartfelt and Windswept Fable

There are only a handful of dramedies in recent years that have been just as endearing as they are timeless. Perhaps the likes of Juno, The Truman Show, and Begin Again may come to mind – flicks that induce just…

Love Hurts Review | Flickreel

With Everything Everywhere All at Once, Ke Huy Quan became an Oscar winner. With Love Hurts, he aims to become a movie star. Quan possesses all the qualities to have a career in the vein of Jackie Chan’s. He’s funny,…

Ke Huy Quan Kicks Ass, But It’s Marshawn Lynch Who Steals This So-So Show

Let it never be said that Ke Huy Quan, the longtime actor and stunt artist whose career was given new life by the smash hit “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” isn’t able to carry a film on his own. Though…

I Couldn’t Help But Laugh Throughout Ke Huy Quan’s Enjoyably Campy Valentine’s Day Actioner Despite Major Flaws

There have been quite a few films lately tackling the romance genre, and specifically Valentine’s Day, differently. Heart Eyes gave the genre a horror spin, while Love Hurts — also set around Valentine’s Day — comes alive with action and…

Amy Schumer’s Netflix Rom-Com Births Heart and (Sometimes) Humor

For many studio comedies, a "white" lie is generally front and center. From She's the Man's Viola pretending to be her brother due to her love of soccer to 21 Jump Street's cop duo going undercover as high school students,…

Mother Knows Best in Netflix’s Eerie Psychological AI Thriller

One of the strongest arguments in favor of television's streaming-heavy landscape is the format's accessibility. Streaming platforms allow curious audiences to discover the immense wealth of foreign series that exists, and Netflix, constructive critiques about prematurely canceled programs and overpriced…

‘Two Women’ Review: Housewives Struggle With Monogamy and Married Life in Charming Comedy

Let's be real: the institution of marriage has been well-deconstructed in the digital age. In a time when getting married is expensive and having kids is even more costly, maintaining a long-term relationship feels harder than ever. The idea of…

Frankie Muniz Battles AI and Mommy Issues in Tedious Sci-Fi Slog

As Artificial Intelligence becomes more prevalent in our daily lives, for better or worse, movies about AI are becoming just as commonplace. However, while mechanical menaces like M3GAN and the MCU's Ultron came in hot, ripping ears off children and…

The Mysterious Sly Stone Is Somewhat Unpacked In Questlove’s Watchable But Familiar Music Doc [Sundance]

If auteur Terrence Malick had a musical equivalent—a genius recluse who disappeared off the face of the planet—in the world of funk and soul, that would easily be Sly Stone from funk R&B and soul trailblazers Sly And The Family Stone. But whereas Malick reemerged…

Leighton Meester’s Quirky Small-Town Procedural Is Charming but Slow To Take Off

If there's one subgenre of the police procedural I'm really enjoying these days, it's the lighthearted or funny ones that mix the drama of a murder investigation with the quirkiness of the leading and supporting cast. The latest installment in…

‘Bubble & Squeak’ Review: A Movie Cannot Survive on Cabbage Jokes Alone

Every year at the Sundance Film Festival, filmmakers bring their off-the-beaten-path comedies that don’t feel like the conventional funny titles that we’re used to. This has led to plenty of modern comedy classics like Clerks, Four Weddings and a Funeral,…

‘Rabbit Trap’ Review: Dev Patel Is Stuck in a Folk Horror Fairytale in This Flawed Directorial Debut

Deep into Rabbit Trap, the directorial debut of Bryn Chainey, a character mentions that “with your eyes you enter the world. With your ears, the world enters you.” While sound has always been essential to horror, it has rarely felt…

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