Home Alone 2 (1992) Review
Tim Curry at the Plaza, the Pigeon Lady, and the rare sequel that surpasses a very good original. It is the rare sequel that is better than a very good original.
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ChristmasHome Alone (1990) Review
Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci fresh off Goodfellas, and Three Stooges traps wrapped around a John Hughes Christmas movie about loneliness. The film holds up better than it has any right to, given that it is essentially Three Stooges slapstick crossed…
AdventureThe Greatest Road Movies
Twenty road movies covering every register of the genre — from Easy Rider's counterculture elegy to The Straight Story's 240-mile lawnmower journey to Mad Max: Fury Road's two-hour chase. The road does not take you to a destination. It takes…
ActionThe Greatest Guilty Pleasure Films
Twenty films you cannot defend and cannot stop watching — from Flash Gordon to Drop Zone. The guilty pleasure gives you something better films don't. The guilt is about how you look enjoying it, not about anything the film actually…
ComedyFilms That Couldn’t Be Made Today
Twenty-five films that couldn't survive contemporary Hollywood development — and an honest verdict on each one. Thirteen are genuine losses. Two are genuine gains. Ten are complicated. The ratio tells you everything about what's actually happening to cinema.
ComedyThe Greatest Comedies Ever Made
Twenty comedies covering every register from Chaplin's silent perfection to In the Loop's weaponized profanity — ranked by how well each one uses its comic form to say something true. The best comedies are not the funniest. They are the…
Artificial IntelligenceMurderbot Review
The Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells' series adapted for Apple TV+, follows a SecUnit: a part-human, part-machine construct that has quietly hacked its own governor module and would prefer to watch serialized television than interact with the humans it's contracted to…
ActionThe Fifth Element (1997) Review
The Fifth Element is a perfect film. Not a perfect science fiction film, not a perfect action film, a perfect film, period.
ComedyThe Bridge Troll’s Retirement
After six hundred years guarding Millstone Bridge, Groth's body is falling apart. When the county decides to replace his bridge with concrete, the old troll has to figure out what comes next.
ComedyThe Chicken Who Outsmarted God
A French chicken named Bernadette escapes her coop using spatial reasoning, defeats a fox, a hawk, and a divine intervention team, and becomes the first poultry to achieve independent entity status.
ComedyGreatest Romantic Comedies
The 11 best romantic comedies ever made, analyzed for craft and emotional depth. From Groundhog Day to When Harry Met Sally—films that changed the genre.
ComedyThe Crimson Cleanse
Vladislav Mortenson had been undead for three centuries, plenty of time to develop some very unhealthy habits. Not the blood-drinking—that was biological necessity.