Category: Reviews
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All I Want
On ‘Nomadland,’ ‘I Care a Lot,’ and ‘Saint Maud.’
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‘The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot’ Should Be More Fun Than It Is
But Sam Elliott is so good as the character that I’m nonetheless glad to have spent some time with him.
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On ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’
Notes on Shaka King’s frequently electrifying but oftentimes thinly rendered biographical drama.
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‘Alone in the Dark’ Makes the Home-Invasion Thriller Feel New Again
Writer-director Jack Sholder lends the material a satirical edge.
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The Long Goodbye
On ‘The Kid Detective’ and ‘Let Him Go.’
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‘Color Adjustment’ is an Essential TV Documentary
Marlon Riggs synthesizes five-plus decades of Black television history in a way that feels intimate and considered, unrushed to cover several bases.
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Closing In
On ‘Promising Young Woman’ and ‘The Little Things.’
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‘The Legacy’ Feels About a Decade Behind
‘The Legacy’ is like Agatha Christie’s ‘And Then There Were None’ with an occult edge.
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‘Down in the Delta’: A Moving Directing Debut from Maya Angelou
The movie might have come across a lot more mawkish if not in Angelou’s sincere hands.
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‘The Housemaid’: A Precursor to ‘Parasite’
Though it has no more valuable insight than a trifling, plot-driven soap opera.
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Michelle Pfeiffer’s Radiance Takes ‘Married to the Mob’ to the Next Level
‘Married to the Mob’ is too good-natured and well-performed to have many damaging gripes with.
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Soulmates
On ‘Girlfriends’ and ‘Old Boyfriends.’
