Review: “Emilia Pérez”

Jacques Audiard has been directing movies for 30 years, often playing with genre— from the crime picture A Prophet to the romantic drama Rust and Bone to the western The Sisters Brothers— but I wish I could be more impressed by the supreme confidence with which he pulls off his most audacious feature to date, […]

Review: “I Saw the TV Glow”

When I was around preschool age, the TV show Might Morphin Power Rangers— which ran from 1993 to 1996— was huge in the circle of other kids I knew. My mom wouldn’t let me watch it, believing it was too scary. I was allowed, however, to watch Batman: The Animated Series, and that specific iteration […]

Review: “Boy Erased”

4 out of 5 stars. To many of you reading this, something like gay conversion therapy is completely unfathomable. But to others, who view homosexuality as a choice, or a sickness, it is a very viable option. It’s those others who are at the center of “Boy Erased,” a drama written and directed by Joel […]

Review: “Love, Simon”

4 out of 5 stars. “Love, Simon,” has everything you’d expect to find in a teen rom-com: a quirky sense of humor, misunderstandings that complicate friendships, attempts to fit in while navigating the drama of high school, and the search for first love. But the one thing that makes “Love, Simon” not just stand apart […]

Review: “Call Me by Your Name”

5 out of 5 stars. “Call Me by Your Name” is set in rural Italy in the summer of 1983. Seventeen-year-old Elio (Timothee Chalamet) lives there with his parents; his mom (Amira Casar) is a translator, and his father (Michael Stuhlbarg) is an archaeology professor. Elio, who spends much of his time reading and writing […]