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.
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.
Few subjects probably seem as unlikely to make a good documentary as the antiquarian bookselling business. Bookstores are slowly dying off thanks to Amazon...
Netflix is slowly becoming one of the go-to suppliers of quality romantic media. Whether it’s silly rom-coms like the Christmas Prince movies or the...
As millennials age through adulthood and rapidly toward slipping out of the key 18-34 demographic, it's worth pondering what movie will come to define...
Documentarian Lynne Sachs and her filmmaker brother, Ira Sachs Jr., have always made emotionally complex films. Whether its Lynne's literal and historical exploration of...
It's perhaps inevitable that director Matthew Rosen's Quezon's Game will draw comparisons to Steven Spielberg's 1993 film, Schindler's List. Both films are about powerful...
Last year’s under-appreciated, live-action Aladdin remake notwithstanding, director Guy Ritchie has made a career of crafting stylish capers and whodunnits. Whether it’s gritty gangster...
We won't know the Oscar nominations until Monday, but it's very likely France's submission, Les Misérables, will be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film....
It is almost impossible to overstate Pauline Kael's influence on film criticism. A regular critic at The New Yorker from her 1967 debut reviewing director...
