Prey: The 'First Predator' vs the First Nations Has a Good Look and a Familiar Narrative
I Love My Dad: From Deadbeat Parent to (Ugh) Online Lover
ReviewJim SlotekI Love My Dad, SXSW, James Morosini, Patton Oswalt, Comedy, Family drama, Claudia Sulewski, Rachel Dratch, Amy Landecker, Lil Rel Howery
Paper Girls: Sci-Fi Girl Power In A Retro Frame
ReviewJim SlotekPaper Girls, Stephany Folsom, Comic Book adaptation, Brian K. Vaughn, Cliff Chiang, Riley Lai Nelet, Sofia Rosinsky, Fina Strazza, Camryn Jones, Nate Corddry, Adina Porter, Ali Wong, Amazon Prime, Young adult
My Old School: Alan Cumming Lip-Synchs Life into this Fascinating Doc on a U.K. Scandal
Ali & Ava: Low-Key Love Story Eyeballs Racism, Embraces Happy Romantic Accidents
Vengeance: B.J. Novak Seeks America in this Red State, Blue State, Fourth Estate Satire
ReviewJim SlotekRed state/blue state movies, Directorial debut, Vengeance, B.J. Novak, The Office, West Texas, Podcasts, Boyd Holbrook, Ashton Kutcher, Issa Rae
Thirteen Lives: Bangkok, We Have a Problem
The Grave of St. Oran: Clever Adaptation of Neil Gaiman Story Rattles Notions of Faith
Fire of Love: A Poetic Chronicle of Two Volcanologists' Romance with Lava and Each Other
By Karen Gordon
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Glasshouse: Virus, Ritual Murder, a Handsome Stranger and Drama that Doesn't Always Stick
Nope: We Say Yep to Jordan Peele's Strange Thriller About What's Hiding Behind a Cloud
Fair Game: Reissued Ozploitation Thriller a Queasy Look Back at Female Vengeance Genre
ReviewJim SlotekFair Game, Ozploitation, 1980s, Re-release, Female Vengeance, Mario Andreacchio, Australian, Cassandra Delaney, Peter Ford, Don Barker, Garry Who, Thriller, Outback, Genre films
Where The Crawdads Sing: Adaptation of Bestseller Faithful to the Point of Redundancy
ReviewJim SlotekWhere The Crawdads Sing, Adaptation, Delia Owens, Olivia Newman, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, Michael Hyatt, David Strathairn, Sterling Macer, Jr., Drama, Murder mystery
The Gray Man: Still in Action Mode, Ex-Avengers Directors Deliver a Lower Tier John Wick
ReviewJim SlotekThe Russo Brothers, Avengers, CIA action films, The Gray Man, Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, John Wick, International assassins, Ana de Armas, Dhanush, Mark Lindsay Silver Bird
Persuasion: Dakota Johnson in a Jane Austen Adaptation is Decidedly Unpersuasive
ReviewJim SlotekJane Austen, Period romance, Period piece, Persuasion, Carrie Cracknell, Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Richard E. Grant, Henry Golding, Netflix, Izuka Hoyle, Ben Bailey-Smith
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris: Predictable, Light Fare as a Brit Maid Seeks Fashion Above Her Station
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekMovies about the British class system, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, Paul Gallico, Lesley Manville, Ellen Thomas, Jason Isaacs, Isabelle Huppert, Anthony Fabian, Jenny Beavan, Light comedies
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song Explores What Everybody Knows, and Much We Don’t
ReviewJim SlotekDocumentary, Music documentaries, Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Song, A Journey, Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine, Leonard Cohen, John Lissauer, Judy Collins, Adrienne Clarkson, Larry “Ratso” Sloman, Rufus Wainwright, Brandi Carlile
The Deer King: Japanese Weaponized Deer and The Fever Dogs of War
Original-Cin Q&A: Scream Queen Alice Krige on Trauma, Healing and Mining Both in She Will
ReviewJim SlotekHorror, Fantasy, Witches, Trauma, Revenge, She Will, Charlotte Colbert, Alice Krige, Malcolm McDowell, Rupert Everett, Kota Eberhardt, John McCrea, Jonathan Aris, Daniel Lapaine
Neptune Frost: Anti-Colonial, Gender-Fluid Political Rave Up Boasts Triumphant Imagery
