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.

Review: 3 Faces — An Odyssey of Actresses

Writer-director Jafar Panahi's 3 Faces begins with phone camera footage of a young woman filming her own suicide. It's upsetting and it's understandable when...

Review: Climax is Fun … If You Can Stand It

French director Gaspar Noé loves to make unpleasant films. Whether it’s 2002’s Irreversible–which centers around a horrific rape scene that never seems to stop...

Review: Apollo 11 is a Breathtaking Achievement

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the moon landing and the new documentary Apollo 11 is a glorious way to mark the occasion....

Review: Woman at War is a Sympathetic & Fantastical Look at a Divisive Subject

It’s not easy to get an audience to root for a terrorist. Yet that’s exactly what Icelandic filmmaker Benedikt Erlingsson has done with his...

Into the Dark: Treehouse is a Step Backward for the Horror Series

Into the Dark, Blumhouse and Hulu's year-long, monthly horror series has improved with each episode. December's installment, Pooka, was kinky and weird, but didn't...

Review: What Men Want is Fun, but Not Great

What Women Want hasn't exactly aged well. When it was released in 2000, the concept seemed progressive: a ladies man suddenly gains the ability...

Into the Dark: Down is a Dark, Twisted Romance

Last month, Hulu's holiday-centric horror series, Into the Dark, delivered its best installment yet. New Year, New You was intimate, unpredictable and bolstered by...

Arctic Proves There’s Catharsis in Struggling to Survive

Mads Mikkelsen has spent a lot of time in the snow lately. Last week, he appeared in Netflix’s Polar, a stylish, gritty comic adaptation...

Netflix’s Fyre: Watch Hulu’s Fyre Fraud Instead

Billed as a luxury music festival and advertised with a FOMO-inducing video showing bikini-clad social media influencers like Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid frolicking...

Review: Temptation Island is the Anti-Bachelor

Back in 2001, Fox cemented its reputation as the trashiest broadcast channel with one of its first and most infamous forays into reality television:...

Replicas: The Best Worst Movie of 2019?

We’re not even two weeks into the new year, but Replicas may already be 2019’s most fun disaster. Filmed all the way back in...

Our Film Editor’s Top 5 Film Scores (and One Soundtrack) of 2018

Oscar nominations are still a few weeks away, but the Academy has already released the shortlist of nominees for Best Original Score. While some,...

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