Excess—particularly around sex and violence, but also as a sort of narrative device. This aesthetic defines much of Ryan Murphy’s…
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The first season of “Shrinking” felt a bit like a show trying to find its voice. Created by Bill Lawrence,…
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Even in an era of CGI and AI, nothing is more vivid than the intimacy and imagination of radio or…
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It’s hard to believe that an era is going to end this month. After January 2026, the Sundance Film Festival,…
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The opening heist scene in the stylish but convoluted “Steal” plays like a greatest hits montage of scenes from similar…
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As Roger Ebert loved to say, movies are our greatest teacher of empathy. I’ve been reminding myself of that while…
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Nick Digilio has been a movie critic for 40 years, for many of those years on WGN radio, now with…
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In Korean, there’s a custom called 삼년상 (phonetic spelling/pronunciation: sam-nyun-sang). Back in the days of the Joseon dynasty, when a…
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During her lifetime, Agatha Christie never hid her displeasure at the quality of film and TV adaptations of her novels.…
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Remember the Mila Kunis/Kate McKinnon spy comedy “The Spy Who Dumped Me”? Of course you don’t; neither did I. But…
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