Tatiana Maslany and Osgood Perkins Elevate an Underwhelming Horror Tale

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Tatiana Maslany and Osgood Perkins Elevate an Underwhelming Horror Tale

The last year has truly been an impressive one for writer-director Osgood Perkins, who, after films like 2015’s The Blackcoat’s Daughter and 2020’s Gretel & Hansel, really became a horror director to watch with 2024’s Longlegs. The film was a…

Vince Vaughn Shines Through Nic Pizzolatto’s World-Weary Vegas Drama [TIFF]

TORONTO – Written and directed by Nic Pizzolatto, the creator of HBO’s crime series “True Detective,” “Easy’s Waltz” is a show business showdown between those who have ambition and those who hold power. The film’s leading star, Vince Vaughn, takes…

Colleen Hoover’s Regretting You Review

On the surface, Regretting You seems like a typical teen romance. Mckenna Grace’s Clara is a bright young woman with a promising future. Mason Thames’ Miller has a heart of gold, but he comes from a troubled background and always…

Mark Harmon’s Return Can’t Fully Save This Prequel Series’ Decades-Spanning Case

CBS is spoiling us rotten with this week's NCIS programming. Not only do we get the infamous Veterans Day crossover between the flagship show and NCIS: Origins that was teased before the season started, but Origins Episode 5 kicks off…

Ira Sachs’ Drama Is A Portrait Of Rare Intimacy & One Of The Year’s Best Acted Films

"I often have the feeling that in my day, nothing much happens... and I've wasted it." So muses photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) midway through his recorded conversation with his friend, the writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall). Linda has solicited…

Finding the Ghost in the Machine

Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is a somber, deeply human biographical musical drama that refuses to play by the usual rhythms of the rockstar movie. Rather than glorifying fame or recreating Bruce Springsteen’s greatest hits, the film immerses…

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…

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