Driving back home after watching a great movie often feels like the start of a new chapter, the future an infinite expanse of opportunity. “A Complete Unknown” redefines this feeling, leaving me in...

Season one of the Korean thriller “Squid Game” hooked the world when it premiered on Netflix in 2021. With more than two years since the first season, expectations were high for how writer and producer...

Writer William Penn once said, “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” It might be a stopwatch, or the timer on an iPhone. It could be an egg timer in the kitchen, or the countdown at an...

The last thing I expected was for the “Joker: Folie à Deux” to be a musical. The new movie stars Lady Gaga as Harley “Lee” Quin, the Joker's girlfriend. Gaga’s performance as Harley was brilliant....

Set about two years after the first part, “Inside Out 2” continues telling the story of Riley, a girl who is in her transitory stage of development as she struggles through the challenges of high school,...

“Challengers” is a romantic sports drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino and produced by Guadagnino, Rachel O’Connor, Amy Pascal and one of the actresses starring in the movie, Zendaya. There were...

Are superheroes still the prominent idolized figure they once were or have audiences grown numb to the concept of role models being “super” and a “hero”? It wasn’t too long ago that the Marvel...

“Love Lies Bleeding,” a queer romance thriller film directed by Rose Glass and starring Kristen Stewart (Lou) and Katy O’Brian (Jackie) falls short of my expectations. With an hour and 44 minute...

“Mean Girls” the musical is a bittersweet bite of nostalgia. Musicals. Not everyone’s cup of tea, but maybe with some sugar and a splash of milk, can be totally digestable. “Mean Girls”,...

“Napoleon," a historical drama produced and directed by Ridley Scott, starring Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon Bonaparte, has its bright spots but fails to create a compelling narrative around Napoleon Bonaparte’s...