In 2024, I wrote about Netflix’s surefire hit “Tires”: “I suspect the second season will be stronger as the writers hone the voice of this show and characters.” Because of content timing, we didn’t ...

The main characters are the retired hitman John and his late wife Helen, the woman he retired for. Helen is past-tense to the ...

Almost exactly 13 years ago, when I was still a freelancer for this site, I wrote a piece about how FX’s hit “It’s Always ...

One of the few ingenious ideas Lucasfilm has had across its increasingly stale Disney+ “Star Wars” era has been handing ...

Early on in Todd Haynes’ “Safe,” an unwatched television broadcasts a half-heard report on Elizabeth Bouvia, a woman ...

There’s nothing about “Alley Cats” that’s particularly interesting outside of how it reflects the current state of its ...

One Night Only,” director-producer Will Gluck‘s latest romantic comedy, is everything that’s troubling about the current ...

On paper, “The End of Oak Street” seems like a departure from the type of horror, noir, surrealist comedy work David Robert Mitchell is best known for in “ It Follows ” and “ Under the Silver Lake .” ...

It doesn’t take long before the upbeat and knowingly cheesy veneer of “Ice Cream Man” dissolves into a fount of blood. That’s ...

USA Network’s “Anna Pigeon” is filled with beautiful Montana vistas (even if shooting took place in neighboring Alberta, ...

In Jane Schoenbrun’s “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” horror, cinema, and desire are intertwined. Though similar in ...

This is the question at the center of Julia Hart‘s latest musical drama, “Don’t Say Good Luck,” which stars Sunny Sandler (star of the delightful 2023 comedy “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah“ ...