“Friendship” Review
Insecurity is the key to why Tim Robinson’s comedy works so well. On his sketch comedy show, I Think You Should Leave, his many skits have become evergreen humor about existential dread
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“KPop Demon Hunters” Review
For a premise that seems like it would be drowned in pop culture theatrics, KPop Demon Hunters offers more than zippy slapstick the Sony Animation Studio has mastered. Artist-turned-director Maggie
“Fixed” Review
Adult animation has changed a lot in the past 20 years. It used to be a big draw that cartoons started slinging profanity, having sex, and letting the poop and
“Nobody 2” Review
Nobody 2 might as well be called Nobody: Wisconsin Vacation because it stays true to the protagonist’s motif of taking it easy. It doesn’t really take the material in any
“The Naked Gun” (2025) Review
The Naked Gun movies have always been like a machine gun of jokes, firing a perpetual spread of visual gags and silly dialogue for the highest amount of laughs per
“Sorry, Baby” Review
As the directorial debut of Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby effortlessly navigates the minefield of staging a dramedy around rape and power dynamics. Terrible things happen to the unfortunate Agnes (played
“Heads of State” Review
John Cena and Idris Elba showcased great comedic chemistry in The Suicide Squad, and some of that energy carries into Heads of State, a good-but-not-great action vehicle. The duo is
“M3GAN 2.0” Review
The sequel to the tongue-in-cheek sci-fi/horror M3GAN feels less like an expansion of the story and more of a stress test for the titular terror. The acid-spitting killer AI of
“Elio” Review
Pixar’s latest sci-fi adventure, Elio, can best be described as a surprisingly mature iteration of The Last Starfighter. While the story might be a similar tale of a youngster getting
“The Phoenician Scheme” Review
I might have been mistaken in thinking that Asteroid City was Wes Anderson’s most direct film on the nature of existentialism. The Phoenician Scheme becomes even more overt with mortality,