'A Quiet Place' Will Leave You Shhhhhhaken
Director John Krasinki's tense, well-acted horror film is about a family attempting to survive an invasion by terrifying creatures who hunt via sound.
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When Your Savior Complex Isn't, Particularly: The Brutal 'You Were Never Really Here'
Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin) directs Joaquin Phoenix in this violent, strident and repetitive tale about a man who sets out to rescue a kidnapped girl.
Worried Parents Go Off Half-Cocked In 'Blockers'
A teen sex comedy from the worried parents' point of view, Blockers smartly skewers, in a raunchy, silly and strangely empathetic way, the neediness of the helicopter parent.
'Lean On Pete': A Dispiriting Detour On The Way To The Glue Factory
Writer/director Andrew Haigh (Weekend) adapts Willy Vlautin's novel about a lonely teen and the horse he loves. Under Haigh's austere direction, the film moves from melancholic to downright morose.
What Do Hamburgers Have To Do With Gender?
Meat and veggie burgers evolved together in the 20th century, but when it comes to associations with gender, their histories diverge. Anthropologist Barbara J. King explores a new book on the topic.
Post 'Downton Abbey,' Dan Stevens Embraces His Role As A Mutant On 'Legion'
Stevens, who played Matthew Crawley on Downton Abbey, now plays a young man who's grown up thinking he has schizophrenia on Legion, an FX drama that's a spin-off of the Marvel Comics X-Men series.
Giddy, Over-The-Top 'Blockers' Makes Parents The Butt Of Prom Night Jokes
Three teenage girls make a pact to lose their virginity after senior prom — and three parents embark on a hysterical odyssey to stop them — in Kay Cannon's raunchy new sex comedy.
'The Chandelier' Is A Stop-Motion, Shaggy Dog Masterpiece
Brazilian modernist Clarice Lispector's second novel, written when she was 26, is an essentially story-free story, fragmentary and obsessed with the nature of thought — but it will carry you away.
From B-Boys To X-Men: Alt-Comics' Ed Piskor Goes Mainstream
Cartoonist Ed Piskor is best known for his award-winning Hip Hop Family Tree series, and for working with alt-comics legend Harvey Pekar. So how did he get Marvel to give him a shot at the X-Men?
An 'Exhausted' Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final 31 Hours
A bomb threat, a march turned violent and a militant black power group all weighed heavily on the civil rights leader during his last speech in 1968, says Redemption author Joseph Rosenbloom.