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.
Alien³: Scar Beast
The maligned threequel comes together often enough, and in such striking ways, that even its failures inspire fascination.
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: A Vast Image Out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles My Sight
The first cinematic adaptation of the popular Japanese RPG series remains an ambitious, one-of-a-kind catastrophe.
Do The Write Thing
American Fiction's political humor is its weakest element, but as a character study and dramedy bolstered by a great supporting cast, it nonetheless entertains.
