Maryann Johanson

I can’t believe that no one has thought to do this before: A haunted house movie from the perspective of the family dog.

How far would you go to save, like, all of humanity? Would you, say, kidnap the celebrated CEO of a major biotech corporation who is an alien, according to your

MaryAnn’s quick take: Rian Johnson’s third outing with droll detective Benoit Blanc, perhaps the most memorable original new movie character in decades, is a grimly funny gothic romp through modern hot-button Americana.

Wake Up Dead Man, the third outing for writer/director Rian Johnson’s deliciously retro Knives Out whodunnit series, kicks off with a death that’s difficult to mourn too greatly: that of

Watch 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap and 1987’s The Princess Bride and be reminded why Reiner was a gentle genius.

Our critics take shots at their least favorite films of last year… including some critical darlings

I’m so very sorry to have been away for so very long. The last few years have been an enormous, stupid struggle for me, most of which I’ve mentioned in bits and pieces and which I will talk about more, but I won’t get into it now except to say that I have been learning fun new terms such as functional freeze and

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