Marisa Carpico

Marisa Carpico
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By day, Marisa Carpico stresses over America’s election system. By night, she becomes a pop culture obsessive. Whether it’s movies, TV or music, she watches and listens to it all so you don’t have to.

‘Sisters with Transistors’ Review: The Forgotten History of Women in Electronic Music

When the average person thinks of someone who makes electronic music, the image they most likely conjure is of some guy with a silly...

‘Dirt Music’ Review: A Cliffs Notes Romance

  Director Gregor Jordan’s Dirt Music should have everything it needs to succeed. It’s got a great cast that includes Kelly Macdonald, Garrett Hedlund and...

‘Relic’ Review: An Unsettling Horror of Family Mental Illness

There are a lot of similarities between director Natalie Erika James’s Relic and Ari Aster’s 2018 film, Hereditary. Just as that was Aster’s début...

‘Disclosure’ Review: A Dense, Engaging History of Trans Representation in Film

In 2014, when Time magazine ran its “The Transgender Tipping Point” issue with actress Laverne Cox on the cover, it was just short of...

‘Scare Package’ Review: Not Even Satisfying for Hardcore Horror Fans

Horror as a genre is kind of built on, if not outright parody, then copying. Halloween led to Friday the 13th, The Blair Witch...

‘Da 5 Bloods’ Review: The Spike Lee Joint We Needed

The world has perhaps never been more in need of a new Spike Lee joint. This one is called Da 5 Bloods, a Vietnam...

Tribeca Review: P.S. Burn This Letter Please

America's queer history is not as complete as it should be. In large part, that’s because the AIDS crisis of the '80s and '90s...

‘Valley Girl’ Review: The Rare Remake that Improves Upon the Original

It’s safe to say that nobody was clamoring for a remake of 1983’s Valley Girl. Set in (then) contemporary Los Angles, it paired a...

‘The Half of It’ Review: A Smart, Surprising Teen Rom-Com

It’s been 16 years since the release of writer-director Alice Wu’s Saving Face, but her sophomore feature, The Half of It, is only hitting...

‘Selah and the Spades’ Review: A Surprising and Stylish Teen Drama

If the CW’s Riverdale were good, it might look a little something like writer-director Tayarisha Poe’s début film, Selah and the Spades. Set in...

‘Sorry We Missed You’ Review: The Abject Awfulness of Real Life

Ken Loach’s new film, Sprry We Missed You is a sobering and ultimately motivating story of one family’s struggle to survive in an economy built to keep the struggling.

‘The Booksellers’ Review: A Charming and In-Depth Look into a Niche Industry

Few subjects probably seem as unlikely to make a good documentary as the antiquarian bookselling business. Bookstores are slowly dying off thanks to Amazon...

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