‘Little Disasters’ Is Everything ‘All Her Fault’ Wasn’t
Viewers who have grown exhausted by TV’s endless supply of interchangeable, mediocre domestic thrillers might be tempted to skip Little Disasters. Premiering Dec. 11 on...
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Review: Train Dreams | TIME
For a relatively young country, America has inflicted an enormous amount of suffering on human beings. Maybe there’s some cosmic payback in the fact that...
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Glen Powell Is Running on Empty in ‘The Running Man’
There’s something vaguely superior about most dystopian movies. We can all point to terrible events and modes of thinking in our current world and convince...
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‘The Lowdown’ Finale Recap: In Praise of The Sensitive Kind
This piece discusses, in detail, the finale of The Lowdown. At the center of Sterlin Harjo’s excellent neo-noir The Lowdown, whose finale aired Tuesday on...
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Review: Ballad of a Small Player
In the movies, at least, Macau seems as far away from a real city as you can get, a futuristic dreamworld of neon reflected on...
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‘Down Cemetery Road’ Review: Thriller for ‘Slow Horses’ Fans
In the premiere of Down Cemetery Road, a desperate woman walks into a private investigator’s office. “Let me guess,” says the detective, Zoë Boehm (Emma...
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Ethan Hawke Is Sensational in Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon
Who doesn’t love Oklahoma!, the 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein extravaganza that kicked off what’s often called the golden age of musical theater? If you don’t...
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In Hedda’s Take on Ibsen, Style Gets in the Way of Substance
Certain plays, love ’em or hate ’em, are useful in the same way standards make a great playground for singers and jazz musicians. A play...
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Aziz Ansari’s ‘Good Fortune’ Is an Amiable Comedy with Bite
Delight is hard to come by at the movies these days, and most of us will take any little scrap we can get. Good Fortune,...
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Roofman Is a Bright Romantic Comedy with a Melancholy Core
Derek Cianfrance’s based-on-true-life caper Roofman feels like a mainstream studio movie from 10 or 15 years ago, and that’s a good thing. Before the streaming...
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‘Urchin’ Is a Confident and Compassionate Directorial Debut
Some filmmaker debuts come at you with great guns blazing; first-timers often like to pour everything they’ve got into a project, believing that overstatement is...
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‘Monster: The Ed Gein Story’ Hates It Audience Most of All
This article discusses the full season of Monster: The Ed Gein Story. Somewhere around the halfway point of Monster: The Ed Gein Story, the title...