Movies

The film output of 2024 was full of performances so nice, we had to run this feature twice. The wonderful contributors to this site have already weighed in on sixteen of the best performances of the year—starmaking turns from...

It’s our favorite time of year, the one in which the many writers of this site pick their favorite performances to write about. There were so many contributions this year that we’ve split the results in two—the second half...

It’s our favorite time of year, the one in which the many writers of this site pick their favorite performances to write about. There were so many contributions this year that we’ve split the results in two—the second half...

The French call the orgasm la petite mort, but for Stephanie Hsu’s frenzied, thirtysomething serial dater Ruby in Peacock’s latest series “Laid,” the deaths around her are far from little. She’s the typical rom-com protagonist, or at least she’d...

James Mangold is no stranger to locking in on the finer rhythms of some of American music’s most indelible figures: His 2005 Johnny Cash biopic, “Walk the Line,” was a soup-to-nuts recounting of the Man in Black’s life in...

Perhaps unsurprisingly for a group that self-selects for gothy wallflowers, “horror people” tend to have a bit of a persecution complex. As such, there’s one eternal truism we see over and over in analysis of the genre: horror gets...

It feels like everyone is a little frustrated by television in the 2020s. The most common complaint is that there’s too much out there on too many platforms. How can one find what’s actually worth watching through all the...

I started attending film awards ceremonies with my late husband Roger almost thirty-five years ago. In those early years, I observed that few ceremonies included Black entertainers as award winners or even attendees. Over the years, there has been...