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.

‘The Get Together’ is a Lowkey Hangout Movie with Surprising Depth

The Get Together, the new film directed by Will Bakke, begins with social media clips of the real-life, often alcohol-fueled mayhem that has been...

Review: ‘Stray’ Goes Deeper than It First Appears

Based solely on its premise, director/producer/editor Elizabeth Lo’s new film, Stray, could sound like one of those cute Disney animal documentaries. Filmed in Istanbul,...

The Vigil is an Atmospheric, Emotionally-Driven Psychological Horror

  In its purest form, writer-director Keith Thomas’s new film, The Vigil, is an old-fashioned haunted house movie. In his former life–before he left his...

‘Little Fish’ Review: A Romantic Meditation on Grief and Memory

There's a moment in the new film Little Fish where Olivia Cooke's Emma says the following: “When your disaster is everyone’s disaster how do...

‘The Dig’ Review: Beautiful, but Remote

Netflix's The Dig, to put it bluntly, feels like Oscar bait. Adapted from a novel by John Preston that fictionalizes the 1939 discovery of...

‘Promising Young Woman’ Review: A Divisive Misandrist Thriller

A year ago, back when life was different and we could still see movies in theaters, few trailers could draw out a reaction like...

‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Review: A Bittersweet End to Chadwick Boseman’s Career

Even under normal circumstances, Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom would be one of the most anticipated films of the Oscar season. The second adaptation...

‘Queer Japan’ Review: An Overstuffed but Excellent Documentary

Director Graham Kolbeins’s new documentary, Queer Japan, is exactly what it sounds like: a wide-ranging look at what it means to be queer in...

‘Songbird’ Review: A Half-Baked COVID Thriller

When the trailer for Songbird appeared in late October, the Michael Bay-produced film immediately sparked online buzz—very little of it positive. Besides the usual...

‘I Hate New Year’s’ Review: ‘Happiest Season’ Eat Your Heart Out

Holiday romances have been exclusively, oppressively heterosexual for so long that 2020 feels like a watershed year for queer entries in the genre. There's...

‘Happiest Season’ Review: Enjoyably Conventional

Though COVID-19 forced Sony to release Happiest Season on Hulu this holiday season, it was originally intended as a mainstream theater release. Thanks to...

‘Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square’ Review: Not Quite a Christmas Miracle

Dolly Parton is a gift to us all. From writing all-time great songs like “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You”, to great performances...

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