By my count, there are exactly two and a half good reasons to watch Netflix’s animated spinoff, Stranger Things: Tales From ’85. One: You are a child, by which I mean a literal child and […]
Angie Han
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When Kevin (voiced by Jason Schwartzman), star of Amazon’s new animated series Kevin, suffers a bad breakup, he does what any young man in the big city might do. He moves out of his old […]
Since Veep ended its run in 2019, it’s been a frequently repeated observation that the HBO political comedy could not work today. Our actual political landscape, in which government officials are adding journalists to top-secret […]
The first thing to know about The Miniature Wife, Peacock’s new dramedy based on Manuel Gonzales’ short story, is that the title is not metaphorical. Or, rather, that it is in the sense that it […]
It takes less than half an hour into the new season of Hacks for Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) to sense that something is off. “Okay, that’s it,” she says, exasperated by Ava (Hannah Einbinder) cheering […]
At the end of it all, a flabbergasted detective asks a survivor what’s just occurred. The victim, battered and exhausted and covered in blood, grunts out just two words: “Rich people.” That’s about the extent […]
To hear the love songs tell it, finding one’s soulmate ought to be a warm, fuzzy, blissed-out experience. “How wonderful life is while you’re in the world,” croons Elton John. “You’re simply the best,” exclaims […]
I suppose one can’t complain too much about a show’s overreliance on deus ex machina plot developments when seeing God’s fingerprints all over every revelation or twist is literally the entire point. Still, it’s difficult […]
Should Anthony Norman ever need to apply for another job — as one assumes he will, since the one he thought he had has turned out to be fake — he could hardly do better […]
It’s hard to be too upset with Family Movie, especially if you’re at all a fan of any of the Bacon-Sedgwicks. Starring the filmmaking family as a filmmaking family who are making a film together […]
There are two types of people in the world: Those who’ll admit to looking up their partner’s exes on social media and those who are lying. Basic, Chelsea Devantez’s expansion of her own 2020 short, […]
It is fitting, I guess, that a film about a writer who spends more of her time intellectualizing life than allowing herself to experience it would be better at telling than showing. Lou (Chloë Grace […]
If there is one thing Sean (Adam Scott) would like to make perfectly clear, it’s that he’s only ever had the best intentions. He’s no bigot. He doesn’t buy into far-right propaganda like his parents […]
If nothing else, Pretty Lethal — the latest blood-drenched and neon-lit endeavor from 87North, the outfit behind (promisingly) The Fall Guy and (less promisingly) Love Hurts — contains one truly spectacular sequence. It comes in […]
Over Your Dead Body, the new film by director Jorma Taccone (MacGruber, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping) begins with its central couple already deep in crisis. Dan (Jason Segel), a once-promising indie director, and Lisa […]
If you’ve ever seen a mob flick before, you’d be forgiven for assuming at first glance that you’ve seen a million movies just like Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, the second feature from […]
Pity the poor horror movie hero. Should they be fortunate enough to survive their unimaginably horrific ordeal with enough ingenuity and panache, odds are good the movie gods will only force them to endure it […]
“Zero part of me wants to do what I’m doing right now,” insists Jack (Jake Johnson) as he prepares to tell Wendy (Dakota Fanning), his girlfriend of two years, that he thinks they should take […]
Speaking to the very cops he’d called to report that someone’s tried to kill him, Jimmy (Charlie Day) suddenly grows panicked. He wants to plead the fifth; he wants to call a lawyer; he’s terrified […]
It’s not that Charlie (Lewis Pullman) and Julia (Maya Hawke) are no longer in love with each other. It’s obvious from the first minutes of Wishful Thinking, Graham Parkes’ clever and funny directorial debut, that […]
Boots Riley, the punkish filmmaker behind Sorry to Bother You and Amazon’s I’m a Virgo, has a proven knack for creating surreal realities that feel truer, somehow, than the ones we can see outside our […]
Viewed from a great distance — like, say, the interstellar perspective of the UFO that descends upon Fullerton, California, in one of the protagonist’s fanciful sci-fi videos — Margo’s Got Money Troubles might appear at […]