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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1990sHome 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…
2000sFired Up! (2009) Review
The cheerleading comedy filmed at the LA Arboretum. is funnier than its critical reception, with chemistry between leads carrying the film.
ComedyThe Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Four women meet in a fitting room and spend two years having Thursday dinners. A novel about adult friendship, with the humor and the damage in the same sentence.
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…
AdaptationThe Lord of the Rings Review
Peter Jackson's three films, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, are the best fantasy adaptation ever made and among the best films ever made in the genre. The extended editions are the…
2010sEdge of Tomorrow (2014) Review
Edge of Tomorrow earns its 8.5 by doing the one thing time-loop narratives almost never manage: making the repetition feel earned instead of gimmicky. Cage doesn't loop because the script needed a device.
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…
1990sThe 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.
American DecayCheckout Line at the End of the World
When an asteroid fills the sky and the world has forty minutes left, a grocery store cashier named Denise keeps doing her job, scanning items and asking paper or plastic, because the routine is the only thing holding everything together.
American DecayThe 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.
AmbiguityThe 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.