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.

‘All the Bright Places’ Review: A Teen Love Story That Might Just Become a Modern Classic

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...

‘Softness of Bodies’ Review: Signifying Nothing

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...

‘EMMA.’ Review: Beautiful to Look at, but Filled with Strange Choices

Jane Austen’s comedy of manners Emma, about a young woman convinced she’s a great matchmaker yet unaware of her own feelings, has been on...

‘Film About a Father Who’ Review: As Ambiguous as its Subject

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...

‘Quezon’s Game’ Review: Not Just Another ‘Schindler’s List’

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...

‘The Gentlemen’ Review: The Style is the Substance

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...

‘Les Misérables’ Review: Not Exactly Revolutionary

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....

‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ Review: Like Bad Fan Fiction

When Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi was released two years ago, it changed, if not created, the idea of online "discourse."...

‘What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael’ Review: A Deep Dive into America’s Most Influential Film Critic

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...

‘Little Joe’ Review: Beautifully Made and Acted, but Ideologically Divisive

Director Philip Kaufman's 1978 film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, is a deeply unsettling paranoid thriller. A remake of the 1956 film of the...

‘For Sama’ Review: A Visceral, Vital Documentary

Filmed over 5 years and culled from 500 hours of footage over 2 more, For Sama is journalist Waad Al-Khateab’s first-hand account of the...

‘A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby’ Review: The Series Hits a New High Point

Two years ago, Netflix’s A Christmas Prince was the silly, meme-ready movie none of us knew we needed. Despite its absurdly illogical storytelling and...

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