Osgood Perkins’ horror-comedy The Monkey offers up a lot of gore and a lot of laughs at the same time. From the director of the 2024 smash hit Longlegs and based on Stephen King’s short story of the...
The road to Bong Joon-Ho’s next project after his Oscar-winning class-struggle thriller Parasite was paved with immensely high expectations, even as it became clear he was actually returning to Snowpiercer’s...
First-person storytelling puts us inside a character’s mind to experience the world around them as they do, to see every little thing they see. RaMell Ross’ bold historical drama Nickel Boys pushes...
Video game worlds are often ripe for adaptation into other mediums. In the 2000s, video game novelizations were the big thing. Series like Assassin's Creed, Halo, Diablo, Final Fantasy, and more were all...
Few modern-day epics feel so uncannily plucked from another era as Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist. It’s as though Francis Ford Coppola had turned in another towering American saga like The Godfather,...
Every few years, I get an urge to watch anime again. This urge, equivalent to when someone feels like eating a certain food, usually lasts a few months. This year, I was reminded of an anime I saw briefly...
On a black screen, two lines of text fade into view: “This film was made in secret. When there is no way, a way must be made.” This epigraph marks the beginning of The Seed of the Sacred Fig, a courageous...
For better or for worse, Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-long personal project Megalopolis seems to be one of the year’s most talked-about films, yet nobody is actually bothering to watch it. Walking...
Over the summer, I spent a lot of time watching talk shows and reality television. For one hour a night, people would exploit themselves for validation from the public. They presented the worst version...
Confession: I didn’t watch Beetlejuice for the first time until I’d turned 18. I felt indifferent to it and thus didn’t see it as necessary to watch. However, I was pleasantly surprised by what I...
Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance asks us a deceptively simple question: What if a single drug could make you perfect? In today’s internet age, it’s already more difficult to control what random strangers...
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Last summer, my beach read of choice was R.F. Kuang’s Babel. Babel is a historical fiction/fantasy novel set in Oxford, London, in the fictional school of Translation....
