movie reviews
Clever and Often Hilarious, ‘Barbie’ Thinks Outside the Box It Can’t Quite Escape
Greta Gerwig occasionally achieves the impossible with the year's most hyped movie.
Cruise Against the Machine
The choice of villain in the latest ‘Mission Impossible' and in this summer’s other big budget movies says a lot
Movies For Grown-Ups: ‘Past Lives’ and ‘You Hurt My Feelings’ Are Both Fine, I Guess
Celine Song and Nicole Holofcener peer into everyday dilemmas without cutting too deep.
What I Watched in the 2nd Week of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival
Was the best movie I saw also the longest? Yep, sometimes that's just how it goes.
Candid Trans Sex Workers, Jerky Teen Boys, and a Really Nice Caftan: A Report From Week 1 of MSPIFF
Here are the 13 movies I've watched in the past eight days. Whew.
An Educated Guesser’s Mini-Guide to the 2023 Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival
Intimidated by the MSPIFF schedule? Don't know where to start? Let's give you a hand with that.
‘Return to Seoul’ Is a Complex, Brilliant Journey Into the Past. ‘Spinning Gold’ Is Garbage.
You can watch a fantastic character study or a dreadful biopic—the choice is yours.
‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Cements Keanu Reeves’s Status as the Anti-Tom Cruise
The John Wick saga ends with imaginatively violent set pieces you'd expect. Too bad it's not really over.
‘One Fine Morning’ and ‘The Quiet Girl’ Tell Stories of Everyday Lives
And if you think that's boring, that's your problem, pal!
Don’t You Just Hate When a Movie Gets Worse Halfway Through?
'Of an Age' and 'Close' both start strong.
