Review

Like many of the global audience for the miniseries NORMAL PEOPLE, I fell hard for Daisy Edgar-Jones in 2020. Her portrayal of Marianne was a revelation, a nuanced and complex portrayal of a [...]

While watching THE STUDIO, the new Hollywood sitcom on AppleTV+, I found much of it amusing despite its satire feeling at least two decades out-of-date. Dramatizing commerce vs. art is hardly a [...]

This may very well be the shortest review I’ve ever written for a film that I think is going to be one of the most talked about and honored films of 2025. I don’t want to say too much, and I fear [...]

Catherine Deneuve has been an international treasure and one of cinema’s greatest actresses since worldwide acclaim in 1964’s THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG. Her latest film is THE PRESIDENT’S [...]

Actress Britt Lower has made a name for herself as one of our more compelling actresses and it’s amazing how much she does with her reactions on screen. The use of her eyes, her body language, [...]

Rare is the television series that hits a high-water mark in its seventh season, but that may be true for the newest efforts from the British sci-fi series BLACK MIRROR. It just debuted on [...]

One can imagine the logline for the new thriller DROP… A widowed mother is ordered by a cellphone hacker to kill the man she’s on a first date with at an upscale restaurant and if she doesn’t, [...]

Which head will roll? That seems to be the hook for so many viewers, let alone critics and journalists, of the darkly comic HBO series THE WHITE LOTUS. Created, written, and directed by Mike [...]

Steve Coogan makes a great grump. He’s played many malcontents in his day, from the tactless broadcaster in the TV sitcom I’M ALAN PARTRIDGE to the reluctant caretaker of PHILOMENA to his [...]

Despite the title DEATH OF A UNICORN, it isn’t too long into the new, darkly comic horror film that one realizes that its title is a misnomer. Reports of the title character’s death turn out to [...]