Sirens (2022) Movie Reviews

Sirens (2022)

Lilas and Shery, co-founders and guitarists of the Middle East’s first all-female metal band, wrestle with friendship, sexuality and destruction in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal rock stars.

The Fabelmans (2022) Movie Reviews

The Fabelmans (2022)

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

Bones and All (2022) Movie Reviews

Bones and All (2022)

Maren, a young woman, learns how to survive on the margins of society.

Strange World (2022) Movie Reviews

Strange World (2022)

The legendary Clades are a family of explorers whose differences threaten to topple their latest and most crucial mission.

Devotion (2022) Movie Reviews

Devotion (2022)

A pair of U.S. Navy fighter pilots risk their lives during the Korean War and become some of the Navy’s most celebrated wingmen.

The Menu (2022) Movie Reviews

The Menu (2022)

A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.

She Said (2022) Movie Reviews

She Said (2022)

New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022) Movie Reviews

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)

A darker version of the classic children’s fairy tale of a wooden puppet that transforms into a real living boy.

Bad Axe (2022) Movie Reviews

Bad Axe (2022)

A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-American family in Trump’s rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and generational scars from the Killing Fields.

Please Baby Please (2022) Movie Reviews

Please Baby Please (2022)

Newlyweds Suse and Arthur become the dangerous obsession of a greaser gang that awakens a sleeping quandary into the couple’s sexual identity.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) Movie Reviews

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

The nation of Wakanda is pitted against intervening world powers as they mourn the loss of their king T’Challa.

Spirited (2022) Movie Reviews

Spirited (2022)

A musical version of Charles Dickens’s story of a miserly misanthrope who is taken on a magical journey.

Aftersun (2022) Movie Reviews

Aftersun (2022)

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t.

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022) Movie Reviews

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022)

Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with over 175 movie clips from 1896 – 2020.

Meet Me in the Bathroom (2022) Movie Reviews

Meet Me in the Bathroom (2022)

An immersive journey through the New York music scene of the early 2000s. A new generation kick-started a musical rebirth for New York City that reverberated around the world.

Armageddon Time (2022) Movie Reviews

Armageddon Time (2022)

A deeply personal coming-of-age story about the strength of family and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.

Missing (2021) Movie Reviews

Missing (2021)

Following the death of his wife, Santoshi has sunk into depression and debt, much to the consternation of his daughter, high school student Kaede. To ease their debt, Santoshi tells Kaede he will track down a serial killer and collect the reward, but Santoshi disappears and Kaede must find out what happened to him. What appears to be a familiar mystery narrative takes unexpected turns into the depths of human emotion.

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) Movie Reviews

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.