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.

Bodies Bodies Bodies is an Old Fashioned Murder Mystery Disguised as a Slasher

Though the trailers tout Bodies Bodies Bodies as a slasher steeped in Gen Z and Millennial online discourse, the movie really an old fashioned...

Kogonada’s ‘After Yang’ is as Quiet and Beautiful as His First Film

In 2017, director Kogonada released Columbus. Essentially a two-hander starring John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson as two people who form an unlikely connection...

‘The Lost Daughter’ is a Strong Directorial Debut for Maggie Gyllenhaal

Novelist Elena Ferrante is perhaps best known for her Neapolitan novels. HBO's ongoing adaptation of those works, My Brilliant Friend, is filled with a...

Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Nightmare Alley’ is the Inferior Adaptation

Compared to much of his rather fantastic, even magical, output, director Guillermo del Toro's latest, Nightmare Alley, is relatively straightforward. Based on William Lindsay...

‘Red Rocket’ Feels a Year Too Late

With 2015's Tangerine and 2017's The Florida Project, writer-director Sean Baker felt like he was carving out his own genre in modern Hollywood filmmaking....

‘The Hating Game’ is a Damn Fine Rom-Com if Not a Totally Faithful Adaptation

Director Peter Hutchings's new film The Hating Game has a lot to live up to. Adapted from Sally Thorne's wildly popular novel of the...

‘Christmas at the Ranch’ Can’t Quite Satisfy

Last year, Tello Films (a network dedicated to telling stories about queer women) released one of the biggest surprises of the holiday romance season...

‘Belfast’ a Heart-Warming if Occasionally Cloying Family Drama

Kenneth Branagh has spent much of his writing/directing/acting career adapting classic works–many of the Shakespeare's–but with his latest film, Belfast, which he wrote and...

‘Antlers’ is a Chilling, but Empty, Dark Fairytale

The pandemic has derailed many films' original release strategies, but perhaps few as significantly as director Scott Cooper's new horror film, Antlers. Originally slated...

The Way Too Early Oscar Podcast: NYFF 2021 & The State of the Oscar Race

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0uiZeEZUZ27A631sU6Ol7B?si=9175b295c2b4479e You can listen to The Way Too Early Oscar Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Anchor, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic,  and Google Podcasts. Don’t forget to check out our other podcast: And The Winner Still...

‘No Time to Die’ is a Surprising and Satisfying End to the Craig Era

  When Daniel Craig’s James Bond quit the spy life to be with Madeleine (Léa Seydoux) at the end of 2015's Spectre, it seemed like...

Karen Cinorre’s ‘Mayday’ is a Like Falling into a Dream

Watching writer-director Karen Cinorre's new film, Mayday, feels like immersing yourself in someone else's dream. In this case, that person is Ana (Grace Van...

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