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.

‘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...

‘The Prey’ Review: Missing the Fun

There have been a lot of adaptations of Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game.” Just this year, Quibi released a serialized version...

‘Project Power’ Review: Superhero Action Made for TV

  Looking at the cast list for Netflix’s Project Power, it’s hard not to wonder if it might have gotten a theater release in a...

‘River City Drumbeat’ Review: A Textured, Quietly Powerful Documentary

Early in River City Drumbeat, a new documentary about the River City Drum Corps of Louisville, Kentucky, one of the film’s subjects tells a...

‘The Secret Garden’ Review: Missing the Magic

Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden has been adapted to film numerous times since its collection into novel form in 1911. There was a...

‘She Dies Tomorrow’ Review: The Perfect Pandemic Movie?

Though writer-director Amy Seimetz’s new film, She Dies Tomorrow, was made well before COVID-19 changed everything, it feels uncannily suited to this moment. The...

‘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...

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