Marisa Carpico

Marisa Carpico
617 POSTS3 COMMENTS
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.

‘I Hate New Year’s’ Review: ‘Happiest Season’ Eat Your Heart Out

Holiday romances have been exclusively, oppressively heterosexual for so long that 2020 feels like a watershed year for queer entries in the genre. There's...

‘Happiest Season’ Review: Enjoyably Conventional

Though COVID-19 forced Sony to release Happiest Season on Hulu this holiday season, it was originally intended as a mainstream theater release. Thanks to...

‘Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square’ Review: Not Quite a Christmas Miracle

Dolly Parton is a gift to us all. From writing all-time great songs like “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You”, to great performances...

‘The Princess Switch: Switched Again’ Review: A Multiplicity of Vanessa Hudgenses

Back in 2018, Netflix’s The Princess Switch was one of the best gifts of the corny holiday TV romance season. It featured no less...

‘Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey’ Review: A Fun Family Musical

Watching Netflix’s latest Christmas movie, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, it’s hard not to keep thinking about 2017’s The Greatest Showman. For one, it’s...

‘Fire Will Come’ Review: Beauty and Horror in Isolation

Fire Will Come, the third feature from director Oliver Laxe, is a film about isolation. Not the isolation those of us living in the...

‘The War with Grandpa’ Review: Harmless Fun

  On paper, The War with Grandpa seems like a wild dream born of months of COVID-induced home isolation. Adapted from the book of the...

‘Residue’ Review: A Stunning Feature Début

  Watching the opening scenes of writer-director Merawi Gerima's début feature Residue, it quickly becomes clear that it's at least a little autobiographical. Like Gerima,...

‘DTF’ Review: A Deeply Flawed but Fascinating Documentary about Sex Addiction

  When it starts, director Al Bailey's DTF seems like a feature-length episode of The Bachelor in the making. After his wife Charlotte died young...

TIFF Review: Akilla’s Escape

Reading the plot description for Akilla’s Escape, which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend, the story seems like a cliché...

‘i’m thinking of ending things’ Review: An Existential Crisis that Loses its Own Thread

Watching the trailer for Netflix’s new film i’m thinking of ending things, it’s clear you’re in for a wild ride. Adapted from the mind-bending...

‘Epicentro’ Review: A Documentary of Cuba’s History Guilty of Its Own Critiques

Early in director Hubert Sauper's new documentary, Epicentro, a Cuban man stands on a map of the world set in the floor of a...

TOP AUTHORS

Daniel Cohen
822 POSTS
Luke Kalamar
475 POSTS
Ann Hale
359 POSTS
Matt Taylor
277 POSTS