There are no heroes or villains in Netflix’s Marriage Story
It can be tremendously hard to tell a story that has conflict, but no villain. Not all stories have a clear-cut bad guy — life isn’t so simple — but...
Read moreIt can be tremendously hard to tell a story that has conflict, but no villain. Not all stories have a clear-cut bad guy — life isn’t so simple — but...
Read moreThe entire first episode of season 4 of The Expanse is more or less dedicated to getting fans back up to speed with a series that went off the air...
Read moreThe ocean’s ceaseless motion, seemingly bottomless depths, and vast wealth of life and death can be seen as beautiful, terrifying, or both. The same description could apply to Mati Diop’s...
Read moreWhen the trailer for Playmobil: The Movie first debuted, it seemed to elicit one universal reaction: “Wait, isn’t this just a cheaper-looking version of The Lego Movie?” Those who can’t...
Read moreThe 1990s show Batman: The Animated Series rewrote the Batman canon, dramatically changing the backstories of several villains and solidifying the noir and gothic style that came to define Gotham...
Read morePop-culture fans probably already have a few emotional associations with severed hands crawling around independently onscreen. The Addams family “pet,” Thing, is a eerie version of the image. Ash’s war...
Read moreArise: A Simple Story is a narrative game with a difference. It tells an emotive, human story, but unlike many “walking sims,” in which I stroll from one story chapter...
Read moreLost Ember tells a human story without humans. In the ruins of a tribal civilization, only wildlife remains, growing and moving through abandoned spaces that hint at a past of...
Read moreThe best horror deals with a single powerful anxiety like isolation, the loss of identity, or the threat of technology. The Apple TV Plus psychological thriller series Servant, produced and...
Read moreIt isn’t apparent exactly what writer-directors Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn did to make their Netflix film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open so tense and real until...
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