TV & Movies Reviews
‘Backrooms’ Is the Carbonara of Creepypasta Cinema
YouTuber Kane Parsons takes the premise of his eerie videos depicting endless, empty spaces and runs with it. The result is existentially scary AF
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Would You Watch a ‘Mr. Mom’ Remake Starring Nate Bargatze?
If you answered yes and like Walmart commercials in the middle of your big-screen comedies, The Breadwinner is for you
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Is the Star Wars Franchise Finally Cooked?
It’s not just that The Mandalorian and Grogu turns a promising TV show into a mediocre movie. It makes you feel like the IP is now creatively DOA
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‘Club Kid’ Gives Cannes the Runaway Hit It Desperately Needed
This year’s festival was in danger of flatlining. Then came writer, director, and comedian Jordan Firstman’s feature debut and a five-way bidding war
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‘He Was Outspoken From a Place of Love’: Steven Soderbergh on His John Lennon Doc
The director opens up about making his film on John Lennon’s final interview, why that conversation still resonates, and his use of AI as a creative tool
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‘Backrooms’ Is the Carbonara of Creepypasta Cinema
YouTuber Kane Parsons takes the premise of his eerie videos depicting endless, empty spaces and runs with it. The result is existentially scary AF
- Movie of the Week
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Would You Watch a ‘Mr. Mom’ Remake Starring Nate Bargatze?
If you answered yes and like Walmart commercials in the middle of your big-screen comedies, The Breadwinner is for you
- Better Nate Than Clever
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Is the Star Wars Franchise Finally Cooked?
It’s not just that The Mandalorian and Grogu turns a promising TV show into a mediocre movie. It makes you feel like the IP is now creatively DOA
- Jedi, My Love
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‘Club Kid’ Gives Cannes the Runaway Hit It Desperately Needed
This year’s festival was in danger of flatlining. Then came writer, director, and comedian Jordan Firstman’s feature debut and a five-way bidding war
- Fest in Show
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‘He Was Outspoken From a Place of Love’: Steven Soderbergh on His John Lennon Doc
The director opens up about making his film on John Lennon’s final interview, why that conversation still resonates, and his use of AI as a creative tool
- Gimme Some Truth
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‘Hokum’ Is Proof That Adam Scott Should Do Horror Movies More Often
The ‘Severance’ star goes darker than usual in this tale of haunted hotels, Irish folklore, and a missing woman
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‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Dresses Up the Death of Journalism
The long-awaited sequel reunites Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep, piles on the fan-service escapism — and doubles a sober reminder of how much has changed in 20 years
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‘Widow’s Bay’ Is the Best Stephen King Mixtape Ever
Set in a small (and cursed) New England town, the gloriously weird Apple TV+ series borrows the Master of the Macabre’s raw material and runs with it
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Like Plot Twists? You’ll Love ‘Over Your Dead Body’
Jason Segel and Samara Weaving are an unhappily married couple with murder on their minds in this bloody thriller-horror-rom-com — call it ‘The Gore of the Roses’
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We Were Never Going to Get a Real Michael Jackson Biopic
That still doesn’t excuse Antoine Fuqua’s heavily scrubbed origin story, which refashions the King of Pop’s journey into the Passion of St. Michael
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