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.

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

Marisa Carpico - July 31, 2020

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

Marisa Carpico - July 20, 2020

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

Marisa Carpico - July 17, 2020

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

Marisa Carpico - July 10, 2020

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...

‘Disclosure’ Review: A Dense, Engaging History of Trans Representation in Film

Marisa Carpico - June 19, 2020

In 2014, when Time magazine ran its “The Transgender Tipping Point” issue with actress Laverne Cox on the cover, it was just short of...

‘Scare Package’ Review: Not Even Satisfying for Hardcore Horror Fans

Marisa Carpico - June 18, 2020

Horror as a genre is kind of built on, if not outright parody, then copying. Halloween led to Friday the 13th, The Blair Witch...

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

Marisa Carpico - June 12, 2020

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

Marisa Carpico - May 15, 2020

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

Marisa Carpico - May 8, 2020

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

Marisa Carpico - May 1, 2020

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

Marisa Carpico - April 17, 2020

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

Marisa Carpico - March 8, 2020

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.

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