Jessica Taylor Bellamy is finding the grotesque beauty in impending doom. Bellamy’s best pieces capture the unfettered 21st-century anxiety of living through e...
THUMP. A mysterious sound awakens Jessica (Tilda Swinton) in the middle of the night. She can’t locate its origin, or even describe its audible qualities in mu...
*This piece is part of our Critics In Conversation series, where two writers offer different perspectives on the same film. Read Lucia Ruan’s review here, and ...
*This piece is part of our Critics In Conversation series, where two writers offer different perspectives on the same film. Read Ryan Coleman's review here, an...
What was one of the only industries to thrive during the pandemic? An unlikely blast from the past: drive-in movie theaters. Now that vaccines are widespread a...
*This piece is part of our Critics In Conversation series, where two writers offer different perspectives on the same film. Read Kai Grady's review here, and L...
*This piece is part of our Critics In Conversation series, where two writers offer different perspectives on the same film. Read Nancy Liu's review here, and O...
The 94th Annual Academy Awards begin tomorrow night at 5:00 PM PST. Our critics have spent the last several months reviewing many of this year's nominees. Look...
The stage-to-screen transition frequently poses insurmountable challenges in translating the magic of live performance into cinema, so it’s exceedingly rare fo...
Wesley Stenzel is a film critic with a passion for the big movies that connect us. He studied political science at Westmont College before realizing that all he wants to do is write about movies.
