It’s easy to see why Martin Scorsese enjoyed Ti West’s Pearl: from the lyrical opening credits sequence to the haunting iris out, the...

[The following essay contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] You either lose your mind or die. No in between. That quote is Cyberpunk:...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The most recent chapter in the Scream saga opens with a simple...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] From the operatic, post-apocalyptic thrills of the Mad Max series...

[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] In light of Dragon Ball’s enduring popularity—indeed, the...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] [Seriously, I LITERALLY GIVE AWAY THE ENDING IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH;...

From Lu Over the Wall to Ride Your Wave, animator Masaaki Yuasa’s films have always involved songs to some extent, but Inu-Oh is the...

Fate. Karma. Luck. Do such intangible forces truly govern the trajectory of human existence? Or is our suffering simply the result of...

There was no other way. It’s no hyperbole to claim that Doctor Strange played an instrumental role in thwarting Thanos’ genocidal...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The Digital Age has transformed mankind into a society of insatiable...

I apologize in advance if this review seems jumbled, disjointed, or confused; unfortunately, utter incoherence is the default response to...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] In the works of Stephen King, such mundane terrors as abusive...

I was not emotionally prepared for what I encountered within the pages of In Ghostly Japan. I was only vaguely familiar with author...

[The following essay contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Over the course of his career, David Cronenberg has become...

[The following essay contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] One of Everything Everywhere All at Once’s many spectacularly...

[The following essay contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Early on in Cyrano, Joe Wright’s delightfully maximalist musical...

Belle is Mamoru Hosoda’s most artistically accomplished work to date. As a longtime fan of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer...

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 review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Two swordsmen stare each other down. Wind howls through the empty...