In The Land of Steady Habits, Nicole Holofcener Explores Uncharted Territory
Anders Hill (Ben Mendelsohn), the self-sabotaging mess at the center of Nicole Holofcener’s sixth feature film, The Land of Steady…
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Netflix’s New Romance “Irreplaceable You” Puts the ‘Jerk’ in Tearjerker
Irreplaceable You telegraphs exactly what you ought to be FEELING or THINKING about the characters in any given scene. It’s…
Nappily Ever After Is a Well-Intentioned Misfire
By the end of its animated credits, I understood that Netflix’s latest romantic comedy, Nappily Ever After based on a…
In reboot for Netflix, “Benji” is still a good boy
It’s been a mere 14 years since the last “Benji” movie. But in dog years, that’s an eternity. “Benji,” which…
“Like Father” Uses the Netflix Format to Play Around With Comic Conventions
Like Father’s setup promises a certain kind of movie: After being dumped on her wedding day, workaholic Rachel (Kristen Bell)…
It’s winning awards, but “Girl 2019” is no victory for trans representation
Lukas Dhont’s sex-reassignment drama Girl has wowed many critics, but it plays directly into transphobes’ hands, argues Cathy Brennan, part…
Calibre review: A dark, emotionally exhausting Netflix film that stuns you
A lads’ hunting weekend begins with beers and banter, only to swiftly sober up when two Edinburgh townies wind up…
THE ANGEL 2018: Thrilling True Saga Translates To Flat Biopic
The film The Angel, Netflix’s latest thriller about a real-life Egyptian man who spied for Israel in the 1970s, revisits…
“A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding” of Netflix is straight trash. But it’s cozy trash
Here are the two most important things you need to know about Netflix’s A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding, the…
The children are our future at any cost in “The Kindergarten Teacher”
As it plunges its protagonist down a dark path, Sara Colangelo’s The Kindergarten Teacher does come across an interesting moral…