“No, I’m not the loneliest man in the world,” Adam Sandler’s Jakub tells six-year-old Anna at the beginning of Johan Renck’s Spaceman. He was zooming in from the outskirts of Jupiter, on a solo mission inside a spaceship as he...
The story of Shōgun, which FX is adapting from the 1975 novel by James Clavell and the 1980 miniseries, is as vast and overwhelming to follow as it must been to make. That was my immediate conclusion after finishing the...
“We’re Dex and Em,” said the former during an argument between both characters halfway through Netflix’s limited series One Day. But what does that mean, exactly? Depending on who you ask -and most importantly, on when you ask-, all sorts...
There is something truly relatable about the post-pandemic feeling of social awkwardness and overall dullness towards the rest of the world that Rachel Lambert was able to capture with her new film Sometimes I Think About Dying. Perhaps this is...
The very concept of the self-assurance message we give ourselves whenever a tragedy occurs in our lives is put to a strenuous test in Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain. “Life goes on,” we say. But does it? In a world...
Alessandra Lacorazza’s feature debut In the Summers, which just won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, is structured in four parts. As hinted at by the title, they are four different summers spaced out a few...
Last year, the highlight of the Sundance Film Festival was Celine Song’s semi-autobiographical film Past Lives (which went on to top my list of 2023 movies), a film that told a story personal to the writer-director — and because it...
At one point during an episode in the latter half of Apple’s Masters of the Air (I’m refraining from providing specifics to guarantee a better viewing experience), two of our characters haven’t seen each other in a while — to...
A few minutes into the first episode of American Nightmare, the new Netflix crime docuseries from Felicity Morris and Bernadette Higgins, Aaron Quinn is retelling to the interviewers his account of what happened in March 2015. As he naïvely looks...
If there was ever any doubt of how good of a director F Gary Gray can actually be, Lift will certainly clear it up. Not because the movie is particularly great, or even good for that matter, but because the...