It’s Valentine’s Day week and that means endless ads to buy flowers and declare your love for someone — or sit at home, eat ice cream, and watch a romantic comedy. But as much as I believe in the power of love on screen, sometimes you just need a cau...

I Want You Back feels like a romantic comedy of days of yore while all at once fresh and new. It embraces the trope and universal feeling of not wanting to die alone, but few other rom-com tropes feel predictable or even evident in this screwball and...

It's 1995. Bill Clinton is in office (it's three years before the Lewinsky scandal). Hard Copy pulls great ratings, and Americans tolerate dial-up and chat rooms for the internet on home desktop computers. Meanwhile, Pamela Anderson had already grace...

Re-booting a classic is not easy, And Just Like That has caught a lot of flack for taking the beloved characters from Sex and the City and giving audiences a glimpse into a less than picture-perfect look at sex, love and aging. But, when a show can s...

Drive My Car is a straightforward story about grief. In another sense, it’s a meta look about how life can take away our innocence in such quick strokes, the blink of an eye really, but if one figures out how to keep going there are more reprieves th...

Yellowjackets is familiar with its "Lord of the Flies" vibes, while also being wholly unique. It’s a mash-up of tones making for a wild ride each episode that's binge-able, funny, makes you want to dance, and then barf in the corner. Not to mention t...

Photograph: Netflix The Lost Daughter, the first in what is likely to become a larger Maggie Gyllenhaal directing canon, delves into things women don’t normally talk about. Motherhood is not always all it’s cracked up to be, and in pre-Instagram days...

In his latest directorial endeavor, George Clooney takes on The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer's beloved memoir of the same name. The book pays tribute to Moehringer's Uncle Charlie (played here by a pitch-perfect Ben Affleck), and screenwriter William ...

Pig created quite the stir this year. With its strange premise: Nicolas Cage plays a hermit in the woods who is forced out of hiding to recoup a stolen truffle-hunting pig, one may expect from the trailer they are getting John Wick meets Tarantino, b...