Netflix’s New Thriller Miniseries Is a Gripping Noir Whodunit

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Netflix’s New Thriller Miniseries Is a Gripping Noir Whodunit

Created by Danish filmmaker and actress Ingeborg Topsøe, Netflix's Secrets We Keep (originally titled Reservatet) is a splashy and entertaining, yet gripping and relevant whodunit miniseries about tensions and suspicions between the haves and the have-nots. It's hard to imagine…

Tim Miller and David Fincher’s Immersive Netflix Anthology Tackles Everything From Cosmic Horror to Cyberpunk

Love, Death + Robots, a series from Tim Miller and David Fincher now in its fourth volume, has always benefited from its format; admittedly, it's hard for a good anthology series to run out of potential. With each season, Love,…

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Review: Tom Cruise Takes A Well-Deserved Victory Lap That Packs An Emotional, Nostalgic Punch

After nearly 30 years of Mission: Impossible, Tom Cruise gives everything he's got to Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. I would expect nothing less from the last movie star and the architect behind the direction of the franchise, who,…

The ‘Final Reckoning’ Is Thrilling, Overstuffed, Overburdened With Legacy & Still Tense AF

Dense with narrative, profoundly overstuffed and a whole lot of movie at nearly three hours in length, “Mission: Impossible- The Final Reckoning” isn’t exactly the farewell you want for your big franchise grand finale. Especially given someone like Tom Cruise probably wants…

Tom Cruise Gives a Fitting Conclusion to One of the Greatest Action Franchises Ever Made

Early on in Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, a character says of Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt that “You never followed orders, but you never let us down.” That’s absolutely true of Hunt, and of what Cruise has done with…

The Body Keeps The Score In Mascha Schilinski’s Hotly Anticipated Competition Contender [Cannes]

CANNES – As experiential as it is cerebral, by turns contemplative and full of bluster, juxtaposing ethereal beauty with brutal violence — Mascha Schilinski’s “Sound of Falling” refuses to be pinned down. This mercurial quality sometimes feels like a sign…

Laurent Cantet’s Final Film Is A Subtly Complex Exploration Of Queer Desire That Captivated Me

Teenage rebellion takes many forms but rarely does it involve wanting to actually work. Instead of getting into trouble with his friends or lazing about his parents’ glass-walled villa, 16-year-old Enzo (Eloy Pohu) spends his days mixing concrete and laying…

Benito Skinner’s Must-See Coming-of-Age Comedy Series Is So Much More Than Its Charli XCX Cameo

Benito Skinner — known online by his stage name “Benny Drama” — came into my life when I needed him most. Amidst the COVID pandemic, the world, and therefore, the cultural conversation, had never felt so fragmented. TikTok wasn’t the…

This Cannes Opener Is One of the Most Grim Films About the Female Experience I’ve Ever Seen

The competition for Cannes’ Palme d’Or commences with Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling, the first of 22 films that will screen in contention for the festival’s top prize. The only solely German production (six others are co-productions with other nations),…

Isabelle Fuhrman Anchors a Slick Survival Thriller

Unit 234 is a taut, small-scale action thriller that finds its strength in atmosphere, pace, and Isabelle Fuhrman’s committed central performance. Best known for romantic fare like Hitch and Sweet Home Alabama, director Andy Tennant makes a surprising pivot into…

I Respected This Blisteringly Dark Comedy For Uncompromisingly Being Itself More Than I Loved It

Sister Midnight is one of the more peculiar titles entering the 2025 movie marketplace, and it certainly deserves to be on more viewers' radars. The Hindi-language movie is the feature-length directorial debut of London-based Indian artist Karan Kandhari, who also…

A Young Man Struggles To Find Himself In Laurent Cantet’s Final Film [Cannes]

CANNES – Celebrated filmmaker Laurent Cantet passed away from cancer a little over a year ago. He’d won the Palme d’Or in 2008 for “The Class,” and his final directorial effort was intended to be “Enzo,” a portrait of a…

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