video games
Review: Grand Theft Hamlet (2024)
A mind-expanding coup de cinema produced and set entirely in an online game
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movies of 2024
Review: I'm Still Here (2024)
A Brazilian family copes when the father is disappeared by the 1970s-era military regime
fashion
Review: Parthenope (2024)
An Italian fantasy that's little more than a feature-length perfume and jewelry ad
movies of 2025
Review: Love Hurts (2025)
Can an infusion of sincerity and optimism balance out the sour cynicism of a Tarantinine murder gang?
fascism
Review: Emilia Pérez (2024)
This "crime musical" has fireworks galore, but does it matter that the communities it celebrates -- trans women and Mexican women -- dislike it?
architecture
Review: The Brutalist (2024)
If he builds it, she will come
Julianne Moore
Review: The Room Next Door (2024)
In his first English language film, Pedro Almodóvar brings bright colors to a muted story in which a dying woman asks a distant friend for to accompany her to death's door
AIDS
Review: Los Frikis (2024)
In 1980s Cuba, punk rockers seek survival in the most anti-intuitive way: deliberately injecting themselves with HIV
amusement park
Essay: Strangers on a Train (1951)
A gay "playboy" is the villain in this adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel
movies of 1979
Review: Nosferatu (2024) and Nosferatu (1979)
The new version updates the story to modern horror standards for a new generation, while the Werner Herzog classic is more poetic and insightful
1960s
Review: A Complete Unknown (2024)
Enjoyable Dylan biopic earns credibility by having its stars do the singing
Greta Gerwig
Essay: 'Barbie' and 'Poor Things'
The striking similarities between these two hits from 2023