How To’s John Wilson Finds Brilliance in a Wild Concept With His First Movie — Review
Airing for three seasons on HBO, How To with John Wilson is easily one of the most brilliant comedies of the 2020s. In the series, the eponymous Wilson would explain something like “How To Cook the Perfect Risotto” or “How…
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This Coming-of-Age Dramedy Is Wes Anderson Meets ‘The Holdovers’ — Review
Movies with female friendships at their core are some of the best of the best, especially in the coming-of-age genre. From hilarious comedies such as Booksmart and Mean Girls to darker dramas like Thirteen and Thoroughbreds, there’s something unique about…
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Avatar: Fire and Ash Review
The audience could feel the thirteen-year gap between the first Avatar movie and 2022’s The Way of Water. Not just because the characters were older, but the already groundbreaking technology had come so far during that time. While Avatar: Fire…
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A Mythic Inferno That Elevates the Franchise
With Avatar: Fire and Ash, James Cameron delivers not only the most emotionally ferocious chapter of the Avatar saga so far, but also its most thematically ambitious. Expanding the mythos of Pandora while deepening its characters and moral conflicts, Fire…
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A Sardonic and Surprisingly Sweet Look at the Burgeoning Influence of ChatGPT
"For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house." So wrote activist Audre Lorde, in 1979. Advice that Adam Bhala Lough has decided to hilariously ignore for his surprisingly sweet documentary. A film that was once planned as a…
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Claire Danes & Matthew Rhys Netflix Thriller Directed By Antonio Campos Never Lives Up to Its Premise
Is there anyone better at playing a brilliant, but manic, character than Claire Danes? While the later seasons of “Homeland” might’ve descended into double-crossing nonsense, for a while there, Danes carefully walked a tightrope between calculating and paranoid. She returns,…
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Denis Leary’s Military Sitcom Is Comfort TV at Its Best
There’s a moment during the Season 2 premiere of Going Dutch when the Stroopsdorf base camp — led by Denis Leary’s magnetic curmudgeon Colonel Patrick Quinn — undergoes a training exercise to evaluate the soldiers’ field combat abilities. This “team-building”…
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Netflix’s Dull Miniseries Proves That Not Every Agatha Christie Mystery Needs an Adaptation
Agatha Christie is one of those revered writers whose name alone is enough to warrant the audience's attention. Her works have been continuously adapted into every major form, to the point where even her lesser efforts have found their way…
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Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 Review
Although it made a heap of cash, many were disappointed that the first Five Nights at Freddy’s movie wasn’t rated R. Neither is its sequel, but let’s be honest. These movies aren’t for the hard-R crowd. They’re for kids. Yeah,…
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Avatar: Fire and Ash Review
Acting Cinematography/Visual Effects Plot/Screenplay Setting/Theme Watchability Rewatchability Summary: Avatar: Fire and Ash is a technically stunning continuation of the Pandora saga that delivers breathtaking visuals and confidently staged action, but struggles to evolve its storytelling. While James Cameron’s command of…
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Gorgeously Shot Documentary of Black Farmers Is a Tender-Hearted Portrait of a Fading Subculture
Brittany Shyne’s delicately laced documentary Seeds, which profiles a handful of Black farmers in the countryside of Georgia, announces itself through warmth and intimacy. No sooner has the film started that we are nestled inside the backseat of a car,…
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This Half-Baked Horror Feels Like Osgood Perkins’ Third Film In 16 Months
With the release of “Keeper,” Osgood Perkins marks his third directorial venture in the 16 months since “Longlegs” touched a cultural nerve. If it wasn’t already evident that Perkins is the hardest-working man in horror by the volume of work…
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