Reviews

We’re all getting older. That anxiety is so fundamental, it feels silly to turn it into a film premise, much less making it a film called Old. We’re adults, and...

Netflix’s trilogy-capper Fear Street Part Three: 1666 opens with an abrupt dissociative vision. Deena Johnson (Kiana Madeira), the heroine of Fear Street: 1994, has encountered the exhumed body of supposed...

Practically every horror subgenre has its hits and misses, but there is no subgenre as polarized as shark movies. The entire history of shark-centric horror has produced one unimpeachable cinematic...

In F1 2020, I took advantage of 4,811 flashbacks in more than 122 hours of on-track time, or almost 40 per hour. Flashbacks are when the driver, in a single-player...

Many years ago, I was at a bar during the period where Chipotle, the fast-casual burrito chain, was still exploding in popularity and opening new locations everywhere. The appeal was...

Gunpowder Milkshake, the latest John Wick knockoff, can be described like this: What if that female-superheroes-assemble moment from Avengers: Endgame was expanded into a full two-hour movie, starring one of...

A friend of mine once played a drinking game with Christopher Nolan’s 2000 reverse-order mystery movie Memento, where he would pause the movie at the start of each scene, and...

Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s 2014 mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows was a cult hit, with its portrayal of the surprisingly mundane lives of a group of vampire...

Remember the Riddle of the Sphinx? The impossible question asked by the mythological creature that guarded the city of Thebes, which would eat you if you answered incorrectly? The question,...

HBO Max’s six-episode miniseries The White Lotus begins with the end of a decadent Hawaiian vacation. As Shane (Jake Lacy) waits to board a flight, looking shaken and taciturn, he...