TV amp; Movies Reviews

Going through adolescence with an identical twin has its challenges. You are in the midst of a struggle to define who you want to be, and here is this person who looks exactly like you, lives in your house, goes to your school, and is constantly inviting comparisons from outsiders. …

If you know the work of Park Chan-wook — key member of the Korean New Wave, cinematic agent provocateur, architect of the greatest hammer fight sequence ever — then you know this is a filmmaker who isn’t afraid of high style. His motto seems to be that if it’s baroque, …

Early in Todd Fields’ Tár, Lydia Tár (played by Cate Blanchett) — a world renowned conductor; the rare maestro to cross over into something approaching mainstream recognition, with the money, orchestral appointments, sycophants, and New Yorker coverage to prove it — makes a decision. She is at the height of …

Name an actor — almost any working actor you can think of — and there is a fairly good chance they are in David O. Russell‘s Amsterdam. Christian Bale, the intense thespian who’s done his best work with the equally all-or-nothing-at-all auteur? No surprise that he’s front and center here. …

The saying goes that we should “eat the rich,” but after watching the long, central set piece of Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness, in which a crowd of financially overstuffed yachters slip-n’-slides through volcanic sprays of liquid shit and pools of their own vomit, who has the appetite, really? One …

In the dead of night, at a remote mansion tucked far away from prying eyes, a group of men and women convene. They’re appearances are all the more ghastly by the room’s atmospheric lighting; some seem to have not slept or seen sunlight for days. Each person eyes the others …

ABC’s new drama Alaska Daily is basically three different shows lurking under the same title. One is good, one is fine, and one is terrible. Guess which one Alaska Daily spends the least amount of time on? Created by Spotlight director Tom McCarthy, the show begins with Eileen Fitzgerald, a …

Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer’s eerily effective God’s Creatures, starring Emily Watson, opens with an unexpected return. The son of Aileen O’Hara (Watson) has just come home, showing up in their tiny, Irish fishing village unannounced after some time away in Australia. It’s a somber occasion — a local …

Billy Eichner is not fucking around. He is a creative, comic dynamo who has played loud, proud TV characters (in Parks & Recreation, Bob’s Burgers, the vastly underrated Difficult People), voiced animated characters (The Angry Birds Movie; Timon in the live-action Lion King) and slayed all haters via 240 characters …

You have to admire a commitment to a bit, especially if you’re a film like Smile and in the possession of a simple, genius, creepier-than-thou conceit. Let’s cut to the chase: Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) is a therapist working in the psychiatric wing of a hospital. A patient comes …