December 2021

George Clooney’s ‘The Tender Bar’ is a Messy Memoir

Scenes are tossed together like discarded laundry, without a thought to creating any momentum or emotional gravitas for the main character

December 30, 2021

Adam Mckay’s ‘Don’t Look Up’ Crashes and Burns

Kubrick’s Strangelove is a clear influence on McKay’s comedy, offering a dose of gallows humor, political caricature, and government hypocrisy

by Asher Luberto

December 30, 2021

Del Toro’s ‘Nightmare Alley’ is a Carnival of Noir

Bradley Cooper delivers a blistering performance as Stanton Carlisle, a desperate loner hiding from his past

December 30, 2021

Rikers Island in the Crosshairs of Reform

Can a borough-based system of jails improve conditions for inmates and officers alike?

by Frank Pizzoli

December 30, 2021

Decades After His Premature Death, Robert Smithson, the Artist Who Gave Us the Grandeur of ‘Spiral Jetty,’ Exposes His Raunchy Roots

Cosmic questions of space and time were ever-present in Smithson's work.

December 30, 2021

Aaron Rodgers and Kyrie Irving: Anti-Vax All-Stars

It ain’t your father’s athletic protest

by Vincent Velotta

December 29, 2021

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Top Lessons You Can Learn From Michael Stalley’s Success

by Written in Partnership with Amir Bakian

December 29, 2021

Olivia Colman Gives a Mother of a Performance in ‘The Lost Daughter’

Leda’s fractured past, which she appears to have kept at bay for many years, has come crashing into her present

by Chuck Wilson

December 28, 2021

It’s Lucy’s Party in New Peanuts ‘For Auld Lang Syne’ Holiday Special

Lucy decides to throw a New Year’s Eve party at an old theater, which she rents, need it be said, with nickels

by Chuck Wilson

December 28, 2021

The Nurturing Melodrama of ‘Parallel Mothers’

This is not just a film about friendship, but a rumination on the history of Spain and the country’s tumultuous past

by Asher Luberto

December 28, 2021