new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, from Wed Aug 15
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Aug 15
Adele Lim and Lea Carpenter cowrite two of the week’s wide releases, (respectively) Crazy Rich Asians and Mile 22. Progress!
2018’s films ranked
I rank films on the fly as I see them for the 2018 awards year.
Do You Trust This Computer? documentary review: artificial intelligence is already here
This slick gloss on the state of AI is frustratingly scattershot and won’t surprise anyone who has been paying attention. But its warnings about how we’ve dealt with huge and rapid scientific leaps before are worthy ones.
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, from Thu Aug 16
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Wed Aug 15
Shevaun Mizrahi directs a documentary look at Turkish retirees; Reema Kagti directs a docudrama about India’s first post-independence Olympic medal; more…
Juliet, Naked movie review: idol threat
A gentle, generous confrontation between fan and artist, and between a past full of regret and the possibility of a happier future, made warm and human by the terrific central performances. An instant new comfort movie.
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, from Aug 14-17
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, from Aug 13
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Aug 08
Writer-director Crystal Moselle introduces us to girl skateboarders; writer-director Josephine Decker give us an arthouse mystery set in the theater; more…
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Aug 10
Jennifer Yuh Nelson directs Amandla Stenberg in a dystopian thriller; Nina Dobrev, Vanessa Hudgens, and Eva Longoria are dogs’ best friends; more…
The Darkest Minds movie review: seeking a prom date for the end of the world
The YA dystopia is now just another fantasy setting for teen romance. We have normalized the apocalypse. Superpowered kids are being held in concentration camps, but OMG, will Ruby and Liam get together?!
curated: writers and musicians are being denied visas for professional visits to the UK
If you want to stifle a nation culturally and creatively, this is an excellent way to do that.
no, I have not reviewed ‘Sorry to Bother You’; yes, I would love to
But it doesn’t have a UK release date yet, and there’s no way for me to see it.
The Meg movie review: shark lark
Jason Statham versus a giant prehistoric shark. It’s never less — yet also never more — than you expect, and never more suspenseful or scary than it is cheesy. But whatev. Go, and enjoy.
Dog Days movie review: a mangy mongrel of a movie
Two rom-coms, a grossout comedy, a family drama, and a platonic May-December melodrama, all connected by stilted humor, sloppy schmaltz, implausible human interaction, and — least convincingly — dogs.
curated: was an unidentified Cape Cop murder victim an extra in ‘Jaws’?
Whoa.
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Aug 01
Mila Kunis and Kaye McKinnon have a spy adventure; Amandla Stenberg fights for respect in a future dystopia; Chloë Grace Moretz undergoes a terrible “therapy”; more…
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Thu Aug 02
Evangeline Lilly gets super tiny; Gemma Arterton runs away from her marriage; more…
Sicilian Ghost Story movie review: grim failing tale
A cruel film that hopes to use its fantastical surreality to find some sort of redemption in the senseless, violent, and real-life abuse of a child. There is no magic here, and no meaning.
curated: as long as Hollywood is dominated by white men…
…white men’s stories will dominate Hollywood.
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies movie review: the last action heroes (to get a movie)
The superhero movie we need, and also the one we karmically deserve. A riot of hilariously zippy animation that gleefully shreds the clichés of the genre while also lovingly embracing its self-referential geek experience.
curated: racist science fiction and Donald Trump
A primer.
new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, from Wed Jul 25
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Jul 25
Rachel Freier starts an ambulance service; Kelly Macdonald gets into jigsaw puzzles; more…
Puzzle movie review: reclaiming the pieces of her life
Kelly Macdonald is exquisite, bringing a lovely freshness and authentic life to a familiar sort of character. Even a script that is often improbable and strained cannot detract from her journey, hard as it tries to.
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, from Wed Jul 25
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Jul 27
Sophia Aguiar struggles with Internet fame; the life of photographer and spy Edith Tudor-Hart is explored; more…
Apostasy movie review: witness to the oppression of religion
A scathing critique of inhumanity in the name of religion — in this case, Jehovah’s Witnesses — made all the more chilling by its drab colorlessness and mute suffocation.
93Queen documentary review: women are doing it for themselves
An enormously entertaining portrait of Hasidic women who started their own all-female EMS team in Brooklyn. Eye-opening and stereotype-shattering.
curated: vampire capitalists are killing journalism
Literally incredible.
new and ongoing dvd & vod releases, US/Can, from Jul 24
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
new and ongoing dvd & vod releases, UK/Ire, from Jul 23-27
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
Mission: Impossible – Fallout movie review: here we go again
Masterful. I had so much fun with this, often laughing out loud in relief when the tension of a breathless action scene finally broke. So why am I feeling a bit meh about it?
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jul 20
Amanda Seyfried learns about her mother Meryl Streep’s past; Lauren Greenfield looks back to her childhood in glitzy Los Angeles to explore American materialism; and more…
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Jul 20
Amanda Seyfried and Lily James sing ABBA tunes; Jodie Foster patches up criminals; Lauren Greenfield investigates Western materialism; and more…
The Receptionist movie review: unpretty woman
Gloomy, authentic, essential: this auspicious feature debut from writer-director Jenny Lu is an anti–fairy tale of forgotten women and the false promises of end-stage capitalism.
what are you reading? (open thread)
By request of reader Bluejay…
curated: NPR erases the work of a woman journalist… in a story about her work
Outrageous.
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jul 13
Maria Mozhdah makes a harrowing visit to her parents’ homeland of Pakistan; Elsie Fisher navigates middle school; and more…
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Jul 13
Holly Hunter and Sarah Vowell are back as half of the superhero family the Incredibles; Anya Taylor-Joy and Mia Goth are caught up in a family secret; and more…
curated: the con artist impersonating the (few) powerful women of Hollywood
Surely one of the weirdest stories to come out of Hollywood in recent years…
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Jul 04
Evangeline Lilly is a tiny superhero; Lex Scott Davis protests the Purge; Laura Collado, Erica Xia-Hou, and Morgen Culver write stories about men; more…
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Wed Jul 04
Lex Scott Davis protests the Purge, Elle Fanning invents science fiction, Whitney Houston is eulogized in documentary form, and more…
The First Purge movie review: a ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ for #BlackLivesMatter
This shrewd sci-fi horror franchise is as sharp as ever as it reaches yet further down into the unpleasant flipside of the American myth. A rare prequel that doesn’t feel superfluous.
Whitney documentary review: an 80s icon contemplated, venerated, mourned
Deeply moving, truly tragic; a biography with a keenly journalistic but hugely sympathetic eye. Powerful compassion and a get-up-and-dance deployment of Houston’s music may well bring her a new generation of fans.
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jun 29
Ruth Wilson claims her family farm; Jessica Chastain heads west; Léa Drucker battles her husband; more…
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Wed Jun 27
Beattie Edmondson adopts a dog; Shailene Woodley goes to sea; more…
Boundaries movie review: family lies
Mildly wacky road-trip shenanigans meet mildly uncomfortable family dramedy. The saving grace? The cast is a joy to spend time with.
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms movie review: the tragedy of the immortal
Epic yet intimate, this is a visually gorgeous and emotionally lush fantasy drama about love and hope set in a violent but beautifully realized invented world.
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