Rhea Seehorn Is the Most Miserable Person on Earth in a Brilliant Sci-Fi Two-Parter

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Rhea Seehorn Is the Most Miserable Person on Earth in a Brilliant Sci-Fi Two-Parter

Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Pluribus Episodes 1 & 2. It's almost impossible to write about Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show, Pluribus, without wandering into territory that critics have been shooed away from — and with…

Bobby Farrelly’s Feature-Length Sit-Com Is Old-Fashioned But Wins You Over [TIFF]

The Farrelly Brothers, Peter and Bobby, were comedy royalty in Hollywood after hits “Dumb And Dumber” and “There’s Something About Mary”, among others. Much like the Coens and the Safdies, they recently split up to chart their individual careers. Peter…

Blue Moon Review | Flickreel

Even if you’re not a musical theatre buff, chances are that you’ve at least heard of Rodgers and Hammerstein thanks to Oklahoma!, The King and I, and The Sound of Music. People are less familiar with Rodgers and Hart, specifically…

This Pointless Character Death Fails To Do Eddie Justice

Coming off of last week's phenomenal episode, and with the promise of an episode centered on my favorite character this week, my expectations were sky-high high for 9-1-1's latest episode. Sadly, though, Season 9, Episode 5, "Día de los Muertos"…

Sean Baker Collaborator Shin Ching-Tsou’s Debut Is An Honest, Darling Challenge Of Patriarchal Norms

There's an incandescent sweetness to Left-Handed Girl, the solo directorial debut from long-time Sean Baker collaborator Shin Ching-Tsou. Co-written and edited by him, the film is nonetheless distinctively Ching-Tsou's, a romantically funny rebuke of patriarchal conventions and Taiwanese traditionalism. Centering…

The Twits Review: Chaotic, Overstuffed, and Uneven

Phil Johnston’s The Twits is an animated musical comedy that should, in theory, have been a perfect playground for anarchic imagination. Roald Dahl’s 1980 novel was a lean, nasty little morality tale about cruelty and comeuppance — a darkly funny…

Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones Are Tremendous in One of the Most Gorgeously Powerful Films of the Year

The films that feel like they’re giving you the entirety of a life, getting to the heart and soul of what it means to be a person, are few and far between, but they feel exceptional when they’re able to…

Chris Evans Is A Believable Action Star Hack In Romain Gavras’ Glib Thriller [TIFF]

There’s something almost bizarrely impressive about how little a film like “Sacrifice,” the latest from filmmaker Romain Gavras, has to say about the state of our world and yet how loudly it all continues on anyway. Despite gesturing towards urgent…

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere Review

There’s a point in Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere where Bruce’s manager, Jon Landau (Jeremy Strong), plays the tape for his latest record, Nebraska. The Columbia Records executive (David Krumholtz) doesn’t understand what Springsteen is going for. It’s a more…

Angela Bassett Proves She’s the GOAT in the Best Athena Episode To Date

One of my very favorite things that 9-1-1 does is when the show has "begins" episodes that show flashbacks from the main characters' lives to show impactful moments in their careers as first responders. These episodes are typically about them…

The franchise’s funniest film to date

One of the reasons for the surprising longevity of the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise is in its main character’s very sponginess. Along with most other characters that reside in Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob (Tom Kenny) is stretched and molded, cut up, sliced,…

A Storm at Sea Without Depth

Simon Stone’s The Woman in Cabin 10 sails into familiar waters of psychological paranoia and maritime mystery, but it never quite finds its sea legs. Adapted from Ruth Ware’s 2016 bestselling novel, the film attempts to be both a sleek,…

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