Parched movie review: women finding water in a desert of men’s making
Beautifully photographed, sometimes brutal, ultimately uplifting: a lively and amusing journey of four women pushing back against India’s patriarchy.
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Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made documentary review: it belongs in a cinema!
Thoroughly hilarious, surprisingly poignant portrait of fandom, friendship, and the filmmaking odyssey that consumed the teenage years of three movie lovers.
A Conspiracy of Faith (Flaskepost fra P) movie review: is God dead? or is he the killer?
Denmark’s smash-hit Nordic noir series Department Q arrives in the US… and this third chapter is menacing, creepy, and morbidly engaging.
Margarita with a Straw movie review: this ain’t no pity party
Open, frank, funny romantic dramedy about a young Indian woman living with cerebral palsy. A perfect antidote to the disability pity porn of Me Before You.
The Boss movie review: hooray for girl power (boo for nowhere near enough)
Plays with hierarchies and rivalries of women’s lives that often aren’t seen onscreen, and embraces women as powerful. But it’s just not very funny about it.
The Conjuring 2 movie review: haunting only in its disjointed bulkiness
“Less Ed and Lorraine” and “more cheese and cardboard” is precisely the last direction a sequel to the classy original should have gone in. Yet here we are.
Approaching the Unknown movie review: no life on the way to Mars
I wish I could figure out what this would-be trippy space odyssey wants to say. I was hoping for sci-fi philosophy. I got nothing but lifeless nonsense.
Warcraft: The Beginning (aka Warcraft) movie review: guest review by a white male teenage nerd from 1987
Like all Frazetta fantasy posters came to life all at once. A masterpiece of cinema that truly speaks to the interests of white male teenage nerds from 1987.
Time to Choose documentary review: yes, it’s another movie about global warming
Quickly dispels oh-no-not-more-doom-and-gloom climate-change trepidation with the optimism embodied in the title. There is hope for us, but we must act now.
Holding the Man movie review: grand romance, no qualifiers needed
Told with a lovely romantic sweep and full of raw, honest emotion, this is a gay love story that’s also just a great love story, full stop. Yay.
