MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
Going in Circles
Zazie Beetz is a great action star that deserves a better vehicle than the exhausting They Will Kill You.
Just Go With It
The Secret Agent is a demanding watch, but it’s also a really, really rewarding one.
More Like Extreme
You may care about ping pong as much as Chalamet cares about opera, but Marty Supreme is one of his best.
All ‘Hail’
If competency porn is high on your entertainment score card, then Project Hail Mary has it all over.
Beaver Tales
Pixar may need to do more work to convince us it hasn’t totally been subsumed by the Mouse, but Hoppers is a good start.
Play Like a Girl
Directors Veronica Bassetto and Sophie Yang might have futures as game designers if Gamer Girls goes belly up.
I Mos Def Prefer
If this were the 2010, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! would rate a hearty "Yass Queen!”
Prison Vibes
Gavin Lin’s Sunshine Women’s Choir is treacly hokum and completely ridiculous. It’s Taiwan’s biggest local hit ever.
Almost There…
Ultimate Revenge is painfully familiar. But it’s also just crunchy enough to be entertaining.
Time for Bed
We’re diving headlong into fandom territory here. No one else is going to give a shit about Scream 7 as it stands.
Girls Being Girls
Tracy Choi’s Girlfriends makes for a nice middle entry in what, fingers crossed, might be a smart, sapphic trilogy.
Warning: Too Many Zooms
It’s blue-grey. It’s techy-forward. It’s bloody paranoid. It’s Zhang Yimou banging the drum in Scare Out.
More Like Intermediate
Yeah, yeah, it’s trying hard to be Heat, but you could say Heat tried hard to be Rififi. Crime 101 is a fun ride.
‘Double’ Vision
Liu Kuan-ting and Jennifer Yu suffer wedding day emotional mania in Joseph Hsu’s surprisingly engaging Double Happiness.
Blades of Glory
Hey, Blades of the Guardians lured Jet Li out of hiding, if only for a few minutes. Better than zero.
Literally Toxic
Not sure what it means if date night is Wuthering Heights, but hey. Whatever works.