'The Black Phone' Review: Toll-Free Terror

After a middling sequel and a detour into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the collaborators behind 2012’s Sinister reunite to test out what more or less worked last time. Like that film, The...

'Inu-Oh' Review: You're My Best Friend

Some of Inu-Oh‘s most gorgeous visuals don’t even involve its centerpiece, a series of musical performances flagrantly anachronistic to its setting in 14th-century feudal Japan. Instead, they...

'Crimes of the Future' Review: Eat Trash, Be Free

After more than twenty years, David Cronenberg returns to the world of sci-fi body horror without missing a beat. Amid the rotting bones of a nameless, placeless coastal city, the performance artists...

'Don't Worry Darling' Review: Do Worry, Actually

Don't Worry Darling

'Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers' Review: The Loneliest Number

Does it really matter if I dislike Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers? I found it empty and pandering, an instance of some typically reliable comedians on autopilot, but is it even for me? I...

'Ambulance' Review: If Less is More, Just Think How Much More More Would Be

Ambulance

'The Northman' Review: Go North, Young Man

Men howl and stamp around a roaring fire, dragging animal cries up from deep within their bellies. A son and his father snarl and snap at one another on all fours in a secret burrow deep under the ear...

'The Lost City' Review: Desperately Seeking D

The Lost City

'Belle' Review: Online Onscreen

This weekend sees the long-awaited US wide theatrical release of Belle, the latest animated feature from writer-director Mamoru Hosada, five-time winner of the Japan Academy Film Prize for An...

'Kimi' Review: The Conversation (with Alexa)

If you’re even remotely online, countless facets of your life are observed and cataloged all the time. It happens via the technology we use every day, the resulting data sold or otherwise disseminated...

'House of Gucci' Review: Needs Letting Out

Ridley Scott seems to have discovered the secret to making Jared Leto palatable: render him unrecognizable, make sure everything he says is incomprehensible, and limit his time on-screen to no more th...

Hunktears Recap: WWE Smackdown 4/2/2019

I feel kinda bad for Smackdown right now. They set up two of the biggest storylines going into Wrestlemania, and then got one of them taken away, leaving them with what? Two whole storylines for the w...

The New Twilight Zone Premiere Is Hard to Watch (Sometimes in a Good Way)

The Twilight Zone is back, under the leadership of Get Out and Us writer–director Jordan Peele. The series’ premiere episode a...

It's (Not) Just A Minor Treat: CM Punk's Ice Cream Bar Reviewed

I spent the day before CM Punk’s debut in AEW anxiously texting my friends because wrestling, especially in America, is a mechanism for disappointment. We’re so used to our favorites being ignored, or...