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.

‘Da 5 Bloods’ Review: The Spike Lee Joint We Needed

The world has perhaps never been more in need of a new Spike Lee joint. This one is called Da 5 Bloods, a Vietnam...

Tribeca Review: P.S. Burn This Letter Please

America's queer history is not as complete as it should be. In large part, that’s because the AIDS crisis of the '80s and '90s...

‘Valley Girl’ Review: The Rare Remake that Improves Upon the Original

It’s safe to say that nobody was clamoring for a remake of 1983’s Valley Girl. Set in (then) contemporary Los Angles, it paired a...

‘The Half of It’ Review: A Smart, Surprising Teen Rom-Com

It’s been 16 years since the release of writer-director Alice Wu’s Saving Face, but her sophomore feature, The Half of It, is only hitting...

‘Selah and the Spades’ Review: A Surprising and Stylish Teen Drama

If the CW’s Riverdale were good, it might look a little something like writer-director Tayarisha Poe’s début film, Selah and the Spades. Set in...

‘Sorry We Missed You’ Review: The Abject Awfulness of Real Life

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.

‘The Booksellers’ Review: A Charming and In-Depth Look into a Niche Industry

Few subjects probably seem as unlikely to make a good documentary as the antiquarian bookselling business. Bookstores are slowly dying off thanks to Amazon...

‘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...

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