Review: Finding Emily proves the rom com is finally back — and better than ever

For the last few years, it has felt like the romantic comedy lost some of its identity. Somewhere between overly polished streaming originals and hyper-self-aware dating culture, the genre became less about genuine connection and more about aesthetics or irony. But Finding Emily feels like a refreshing return to what made people fall in love […]

Why won't Hollywood let Andy be single? Maybe because she doesn't want to be

The disappointment with "The Devil Wears Prada 2" says more about its critics than the film. Andy Sachs is allowed to want love alongside her career, and audiences need to stop demanding that fictional women conform to their ideological templates.

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Review: The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a glossy comeback with a few loose threads

Nearly two decades after The Devil Wears Prada became a cultural touchstone, the long-awaited sequel had a fine line to walk: honour the original without feeling like a reheated sample from Runway’s archives. Thankfully, The Devil Wears Prada 2 largely pulls it off, with style, wit, and just enough bite. From the outset, the film […]

Michael review: Jaafar Jackson delivers a performance that blurs memory and myth

‘Michael’ arrives carrying the weight of one of the most scrutinised legacies in music history, and it largely chooses to meet that challenge the old-fashioned way: by putting performance first. Directed by Antoine Fuqua and centred on the life of Michael Jackson, the film traces his journey from the Jackson 5 era through to the […]

Sundance Review: "Josephine"

Will the feel-bad breakout of the last Sundance be this year's CODA? This weekend, Josephine (the sophomore feature from writer-director Beth de Araújo) took both the Grand Jury and Audience awards at Sundance, placing it alongside Precious, Whiplash, CODA and Minari, films that went on to define their years. Whether it follows that path remains to be seen. Josephine is eight years old when she…

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Sundance Review: “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!”

Since the first entertainers emerged with their sketches and tableaus, comedy has been meant for an audience, not an individual. The high of a laugh, a gasp, a scream shared with strangers cannot be compared to one indulged in isolation. And a film so clearly designed for the cinema cannot be enjoyed in the same way on the couch at home. We’ve heard this sentiment repeated ad nauseam over the…

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Ken Burns’s The American Revolution

The American ruling class would like nothing more than for workers to think that revolution is alien to the US. But Ken Burns’ new docuseries, The American Revolution, is a powerful refutation of this prejudice.

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