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.

‘Luce’ Review: Melodrama at its Finest

Marisa Carpico - July 30, 2019

You have to have been living under a rock to deny the last few years have been a time of enormous social and cultural...

‘Mike Wallace is Here’ Review: A Deep Dive into the Father of the Modern Interview

Marisa Carpico - July 25, 2019

The new documentary, Mike Wallace is Here, begins with the titular journalist interviewing Bill O'Reilly. Wallace asks him the appeal of Fox News and...

‘Honeyland’ Review: A Beautiful Parable of Honeybees

Marisa Carpico - July 24, 2019

What do you think of when you hear the word, “honey”? Perhaps you imagine a beekeeper in a suit, carefully drenching bees in smoke...

Trespassers Review: Stalled by Predictable Character Arcs

Marisa Carpico - July 12, 2019

There’s a long history of bad boyfriends in horror. From The Creature from the Black Lagoon, to Billy Loomis in the first Scream, to...

Review: ‘The Farewell’ Finds Humor in Grief

Marisa Carpico - July 11, 2019

Early in The Farewell, the new film from writer-director Lulu Wang, the father of the protagonist tells a joke at dinner party. He describes...

‘The Cat Rescuers’ Review: Great Even If You Aren’t a Cat Person

Marisa Carpico - July 8, 2019

As an opening title card in the new documentary, The Cat Rescuers, explains, there are roughly 500,000 stray cats living in New York City....

Into the Dark: Culture Shock is the Best of the Series

Marisa Carpico - July 6, 2019

After a two-episode slump with April’s I’m Just F*cking with You and the questionably-holiday themed All that We Destroy, Hulu and Blumhouse’s horror series...

‘Back to the Fatherland’ Review: A Moving, Complex Study of the Holocaust’s Legacy

Marisa Carpico - July 4, 2019

Purely as a concept, Back to the Fatherland sounds like an essential documentary. Co-directed by the granddaughter of a Jew who escaped the Holocaust...

‘Midsommar’ Review: The Inverse of ‘Hereditary’

Marisa Carpico - July 2, 2019

When writer-director Ari Aster’s first feature, Hereditary, hit theaters last year, it felt like the beginning of an exciting new voice. Classed with movies...