The Strangers: Prey at Night Leaps From Grim to Goofy to Save the Day
The Strangers: Prey at Night has a slow and rather grim first half, but then, in the home stretch, takes a welcome turn into the seriously silly
The Strangers: Prey at Night has a slow and rather grim first half, but then, in the home stretch, takes a welcome turn into the seriously silly
It has impenetrable technobabble jutting up against awkward football metaphors and a reverie on peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches.
Already the show’s producers have revealed, perhaps unsurprisingly, that Roseanne and Dan Conner (Barr and John Goodman) voted for Trump, which has created a rift between Roseanne and her sister
The Looming Tower is a show about the human relationships that keep systems functioning — and how when those relationships break down, the system does, too
… This first English-language feature from Italian director Paolo Virzi (Human Capital, Like Crazy) is at times moving in its sincerity, thanks to stellar casting and the director’s clear-eyed perspective on aging and dementia …
Thoroughbreds’ best trick is to convince us, through the aching stillness of its stars’ eyes, that it might not actually be a twisty, twisted thriller inspired by the likes of Strangers on a Train
No other series even attempts to capture the tremendous variety within Asian America, much less to do so unassumingly
The film sends the simultaneous messages that it’s futile to coddle children but also that it’s okay to feel the icky stuff that you feel.
In the second season of the new One Day at a Time, it seems like everyone in the Cuban-American Alvarez family faces a crisis of their own that reminds them to hold onto each other
Also just like History, Period offers a chance for comedians and the actors who love them to play dress-up and goof off in a period-piece setting
Kersey is the everyman, and Roth’s movie, whether he likes it or not, is the good-guy-with-a-gun propaganda the NRA is just lapping up straight out of the toilet
A guide to catching up on the nominees and where to watch the awards show.
The film gives only the most paltry consideration to geopolitics, to relations between the U.S. and Russia or America’s own corrupt operations.
The film concerns above all else accumulation and dispersal, in the American vein.
It’s often inspired in its cutting and composition, and Garland has crafted sequences of strange splendor, including a too-short cosmic light show.
In the tense but hearty Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman, actress Daniela Vega plays a transwoman, Marina, who must navigate life after the death of her lover.
Potter isn’t what you’d call subtle, but she also knows not to overstay her welcome, and this pithy comedy is a masterclass in all that a filmmaker can squeeze from the most basic theatrical concept …
The chemistry between Bateman and McAdams explodes in every scene.
The characters talk extensively about what matters to them rather than what matters to the plot, exposing themselves, sharing the worries that keep them up at night.
The narrative is needlessly complicated, and it all seems crafted just to build to a single joke voiced in the third act.
Get Out director/writer/producer Jordan Peele, in partnership with Universal Pictures, has decided to show free screenings of Get Out one day only on Monday, February 19, at select AMC Theaters. In celebration of the anniversary of its initial release, and its four Oscar nominations; you can see the film for free…
It’s a twisty-turny crime drama complete with stolen money, vengeful mob bosses, and all sorts of strange coincidences and random dialogue digressions