Director Peter Strickland’s new film offers an oddball universe that might be a satire.
June 24, 2022
Ghosts, refugees, teen angst, nudists, the intrusiveness of documentaries, and more are on the docket.
June 7, 2022
The writer-director can still bring the cringe—and the danger
June 2, 2022
Every man the traumatized heroine meets is a variation on The Man, laying out the film’s #MeToo agenda with bullet-point flagrancy
May 24, 2022
The tale reminds us of how little we know about what’s coming
April 29, 2022
Bialik announced the film as her way to cope with having grown up “around mental illness” – a factor never explicitly expressed in the film, and which might explain the strained detours into foul-mouthed malevolence
April 26, 2022
Are we winking with or laughing at an actor whose star has fallen straight to streaming?
April 21, 2022
The details are painfully right—Schoenbrun sharply musters the claustrophobic phase of life when everything seems to happen on your childhood bed
April 13, 2022
Nixon and the movies were both riding high in 1972, but history was catching up with them
March 31, 2022
Used to rousting Arabs and “Gypsies,” these Bulgarians don’t seem to know how exactly to be racist toward an African, but they manage
March 11, 2022