Leave No Trace is really a coming-of-age story with the style and themes we’ve come to expect from Debra Granik, who will now be known as the woman who introduced Jennifer Lawrence to the world in Winter’s Bone. Comparisons to…
The Handmaid’s Tale 2×13 Review: ‘The Word’ ends the season with new twists, new frustrations
You can always count on something serious to go down on every episode of The Handmaid’s Tale, so we’d expect nothing less from the season finale. Much life the end of the first season, the show throws us some truly…
Harlots Season 2 Premiere Review: Get ready, because the girls are definitely back in town
Harlots was always a show with quite a bit on its mind. Call it a byproduct of its subject matter, which happens to be about prostitutes in 1763 London, a time when one in five women made their living that…
The Handmaid’s Tale 2×12 Review: New life, new twists liven up ‘Postpartum’
The Handmaid’s Tale isn’t exactly known for its twists as the various ways it can creatively and emotionally devastate us with them. In “Postpartum,” it does so yet again through Gilead’s true believers. We’ve seen the destruction such people can…
The Handmaid’s Tale 2×11 Review: Moss astounds in repetitive yet affecting “Holly”
The best thing about The Handmaid’s Tale episode “Holly” is Elisabeth Moss. It’s powerful stuff, but it’s ultimately filler. Moss is the one whose skill and fearlessness makes “Holly” rise above its limitations. Again. In the episode, June laments that…
Damsel Movie Review: Zellner brothers’ latest is a darkly funny feminist western
Westerns are big right now, and for good reason. Classic examples of the genre tend to embody American ideals of strong, heroic men triumphing over nature, beating the bad guys, and getting the pretty, helpless girl. It presents quite an…
The Handmaid’s Tale 2×10 Review: “The Last Ceremony” Is The Most Brutally Relevant Episode Yet
Damn it, this episode of The Handmaid’s Tale shouldn’t be as relevant as it is. It isn’t just its themes of brutality being normalized, it’s the depiction of the powerless having their children and infants ripped from their arms while…
