My most controversial take: Jennifer Lopez can barely act and barely sing, yet weâve somehow allowed her to build an entire career around both. Thatâs how we ended…
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Read more “Bottoms” Review: Girl Failures Are the New It GirlsIt’s a particular experience to be a marginalized person in a predominantly white setting. When you’re an immigrant in any Predominantly White Institution (PWI) in the U.S., you’re…
Read more How ‘Love in Taipei’ Tackles The Immigrant ExperienceOn July 21st, Barbie and Oppenheimer are set to open in the biggest box office battle since 2008’s Mamma Mia and The Dark Night. And if those two…
Read more Is Movie Magic … Marketing Magic?Picture me with my stepmother in a college neighborhood in Seattle. We’re looking for something to do, preferably with air conditioning. We’ve sampled the artisanal ice cream shop…
Read more I Can’t Stop Thinking About the “Maneater” Scene in ‘No Hard Feelings’Spoiler alert: This review contains spoilers for the film The Lesson A friend — another writer, because we masochists have to stick together — tells me she’s not…
Read more “The Lesson” Review: Killing Your Darlings — And Your Heroes, TooWhen you think of Tracee Ellis Ross, you think of her big hair (shoutout to Pattern Beauty) and her big smile. You might even think of her mother,…
Read more “Cold Copy” Review: Tracee Ellis Ross’s Magnetic Personality Buoys Flaccid Film Noir“Wait, is he the actor in Molly’s Game?” I ask myself as I watch Michael Cera in The Adults as he obnoxiously wins a poker game — making…
Read more ‘The Adults’ Review: ‘Succession’ for Theatre KidsEverybody loves a juicy murder mystery. The True Crime boom proves it. So does the spectacular success of shows like Dahmer, Only Murders in the Building, and Peacock’s…
Read more ‘Maggie Moore(s)’ Review: Jon Hamm, Tina Fey, and Not Much ElseIn The Line — the latest film by Ethan Berger, starring Alex Wolff, Lewis Pullman, Halle Bailey, Austin Abrams, Angus Cloud, Scoot McNairy, John Malkovich, Bo Mitchell, and…
Read more “The Line” Review: White on White Violence — Alex Wolff and Austin Abrams In a Portrait of PrivilegeNick Jonas is on a roll. He’s in the middle of The Jonas Brothers’ THE TOUR (think their version of Taylor’s Era tour, where they perform 5 of…
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Read more ‘Eric LaRue’ Review: After Soaring in Succession, Skarsgard Transforms in ‘Eric LaRue’There’s pandemic isolation, and then there’s ‘trapped in a crater in the middle of the desert’ isolation. One of the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival midnight premieres, The Seeding…
Read more “He’s Not A Villain, He’s An Animal:” Alex Montaldo On Playing “The Bad Guy” In The SeedingIt’s film festival season. After a stunning display of fashion and film at Cannes, we are finally deep in the pomp and circumstance that comes with film festivals.…
Read more 16 Films To Look Forward to at Tribeca Film FestivalMovie distribution is a complete mess. With studios holding out for theatrical releases while streaming services poach viewers from cinema seats, industry giants seem to be at war.…
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