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: Temptation Island is the Anti-Bachelor

Marisa Carpico - January 15, 2019

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?

Marisa Carpico - January 12, 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

Marisa Carpico - December 31, 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,...

New Year, New You: The Best Installment of Hulu’s ‘Into the Dark’ Yet

Marisa Carpico - December 31, 2018

When Hulu and Blumhouse began their 12-episode, holiday-themed horror series, Into the Dark, back in October, it was hard to tell if it would...

Cold War: Love and Music in Post-War Poland

Marisa Carpico - December 21, 2018

Pawel Pawlikowski’s new film Cold War opens this weekend in the US, but it already has a lot to live up to. With a...

Review: Julia Roberts & Lucas Hedges Brilliantly Carry the Incomplete, ‘Ben is Back’

Marisa Carpico - December 11, 2018

With Golden Globe nominations out and a few minor awards bodies already doling out accolades, it's pretty clear that whatever Oscar hopes Ben is...

Golden Globe 2018 Film Nominations: The Good, The Bad & The What Were They Thinking?

Marisa Carpico - December 6, 2018

Though our TV editor, Matt Taylor, and I have been talking Oscars for months on our Way Too Early Oscar Podcast, this morning's announcement...

The Truth About Killer Robots: Like Black Mirror But Bad

Marisa Carpico - November 26, 2018

Robots are taking over the world. At least that’s the premise of Maxim Pozdorovkin's new documentary, The Truth About Killer Robots, airing on HBO...

Review: Shoplifters is a Brilliant Tale of Family, Morality & Crime

Marisa Carpico - November 23, 2018

When it starts, Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda’s new film Shoplifters seems innocuous. We see a young boy, Shota (Jyo Kairi), and the man we...

The Last Race: Love and Death on Long Island

Marisa Carpico - November 16, 2018

As a series of title cards explains at the beginning of the new documentary, The Last Race, stock car racing is long past its...

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Season 1 Finale: ‘The Witching Hour’ Patriarchy Wins…Again

Marisa Carpico - November 15, 2018

It’s perhaps impossible not to watch the final episode of Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina without reflecting on the season as a whole. From...

Suspiria: The Catharsis of Female Rage

Marisa Carpico - October 29, 2018

***Massive Spoilers Ahead*** Nowhere is the gender inequality in film reviewing more evident than in a press screening. I don’t think I’ve ever been the...

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