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.

‘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...

’21 Bridges’ Review: A Brooding and Twisty Neo-Noir

With the release of Knives Out this week and 21 Bridges last week, it seems the crime thriller is having a comeback. Where the...

‘Shooting the Mafia’ Review: An Incomplete Picture of a Photographer’s Career

Growing up in America, where, thanks to films like The Godfather or Goodfellas, the mafia seems just as cool as it does dangerous, it's...

‘The Knight Before Christmas’ Review: Better than the Average Christmas Romance

It may not even be Thanksgiving yet, but holiday romance season is well under way on the Lifetime and Hallmark channels. While the twin...

‘Queen of Hearts’ Review: Denmark’s Oscar Submission Deserves a Nomination

The Oscar for Best International Feature Film (changed earlier this year from Best Foreign Language Film) seems like a done deal. Between Bong Joon-ho’s...

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