I’m a skeptic by nature. When the blandly attractive heroes and heroines in romcoms talk about “love at first sight” and “true love,” I...

A24’s The Tragedy of Macbeth begins with narration over a blank screen. William Shakespeare’s familiar verse immediately establishes the...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] A tower of books stacked from floor to ceiling, so perfectly...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] I am Loki of Asgard, and I am burdened with glorious purpose....

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The Gom Jabbar. The doomed Duke Leto’s courageous defiance in the...

[The following essay contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] In Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho, ghosts are real. Skeptics may...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] In Bernard Rose’s original Candyman, the eponymous hook-handed...

In my Black Widow review, I argued: The villains, sadly, are far less compelling and memorable, existing only as shallow, generic...

For the majority of its duration, “White Woman’s Instagram”—a song penned by Bo Burnham for Inside, his self-produced Netflix comedy...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] During his promotional tour for The Suicide Squad, John Cena...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] While digesting The Green Knight's stylistic and structural...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] On Saint Patrick’s Day, I watched Fatal Deviation—which proudly...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Things change, Harold. Don't get nostalgic. Look to the future....

Mars Attacks! absolutely terrified me when it was first released. Actually, that’s a bit of an understatement. It would be more accurate...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] As complex and compelling as Robyn Goodefellowe, her father, and...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Even if you’re a complete newcomer to the wild world of Greek...

[The following essay contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Early in the first act of David Fincher’s Mank, protagonist Herman J....

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Like nearly all of Pixar’s work, Soul gets pretty goddamn...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] I’ll see you at the beginning, friend. As the dust settles following...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Several critics have argued that Season 2 of The Mandalorian...