M.N. Miller

Robin Wright’s directorial debut, Land, is an exercise in stoic ambivalence. Don’t get me wrong, Wright is one of the most underappreciated actors of her...

It’s rare for any type of crime film that goes beyond its first act without resorting to every other generic crime film cliche. Roger Ebert...

This recap of Disney Plus’s WandaVision season 1, episode 6, “All-New Halloween Spooktacular!”, contains significant spoilers. Last Time on WandaVision Last week on WandaVision’s “On...

When the funniest moment of a comedy written by the women behind Bridesmaids is Jamie Dornan singing a song inspired by Seagulls in the Sand,...

Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah works on many levels. It’s a film with a message that is deeply rooted in racial oppression. It...

I recognize sometimes film criticism may get caught up in an overall level of keeping standards high to keep the medium as an art form....

Let me summarize Malcolm & Marie for you: every time one of the two characters has to urinate, they have a long, endless fight. God,...

I think every actor goes through the phase of wanting to play a man in eternal arrested development; a giant man-baby who somehow gets caught...

This recap of Disney Plus’s WandaVision season 1, episode 3, contains spoilers. The third episode has WandaVision entering the classic ‘70s sitcom style, with the...

This recap of Disney Plus’s WandaVision season 1, episode 2, contains significant spoilers. WandaVision episode 2 begins in black and white and I Love Lucy style...

Netflix has become a charity by subsidizing bad films for studios. They are responsible for the distribution rights in the United States of the animated...

There is something plaintively real and uncinematic about the opening scene of Herself, the new Amazon Prime Video film. A thirty-something mother is dancing around...

This review of Cops and Robbers (Netflix) is spoiler-free. Timothy Ware Hill’s beautifully animated short film has landed on the streaming giant Netflix and it...

Let’s get one thing straight — Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari is an American movie. Yes, most of it is spoken in Korean. So what? This...

There are very few film experiences like Florian Zeller’s The Father. He has made a film, based on his play, that has cleverly communicated the...

  There aren’t enough words for how indescribably bad Drew Barrymore’s The Stand In is. It is bad, so very bad. Atrocious, brackish, hackneyed, insipid,...

I never knew the term ghosting was not invented by millennials, but a phrase that came from when people left a party. While watching French...

Taiwan’s martial law ended in 1987, but that doesn’t mean people’s hearts and minds changed with it. The move towards political oppression lasted nearly 40...

The erotic thriller, popular in the nineties, has made a comeback in recent years. You know the kind. One half of the marriage feels underappreciated...

This review of DNA (Netflix) is spoiler-free. Maïwenn’s film DNA (Netflix, also known as ADN) is a quiet and contemplative work about how the power...