Virginia Film Festival, Part 1: Day of Future Past
My first of two days at the Virginia Film Festival, on the eve of the 2024 election, was full of movies grappling with historical trauma.
Gone Girl at 10: Fifteen Minutes of Shame
A decade since its release, the date movie from hell is a post-breakup classic and a prophetic preview of the always-online life yet to come
Hundreds of Beavers: Dam Good
A movie that commits to and succeeds at being a live-action cartoon, and one of the funniest live-action comedies in ages.
Final Fantasy Rewind: Famicomedy
The most recent Final Fantasy movie's charming story of familial reconnection is undercut by garish games industry commercialism.
Argylle: The Bigger the Spy, the Bigger the 'Why'
The Matthew Vaughan spy movie's ungainly, self-satisfied approach to action and comedy makes it a slog to sit through.
