WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn is a step by step telling of how Adam Neumann founded a company so big it was bound to fail While the rise and fall of WeWork is an interesting enough fable to fuel Hulu's WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47…
The End of Us follows a couple who unfortunately breaks up just as the world locks down in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic How it Ends try to make a relatable pandemic-set romantic-comedy, instead the overwhelming feeling is "too soon." It’s oddly fitting that The End of Us, directed by Henry Loevner and Steven…
Nomadland follows a widow as she tours the west living out of her van with just her fellow nomads for help, company, and strength Quick cut: Chloé Zhao makes Nomadland's melancholic but hopeful story of nomads traversing the American West a stunningly complex character study of life on the margins of society. It’s often drilled…
Two decades later, Love & Basketball is still one of the most empathetic romances and sports drama ? This recommendation for Love & Basketball was originally published in our newsletter. Sign up here. Happy Thursday! If you live in New York City, there will be an emergency rally on Saturday in Washington Square Park protesting the violence…
Minari follows a Korean-American family as the set down roots and builds a farm in rural Arkansas in the 1980s Minari is a beautifully told family drama about chasing the American dream and all the costs and beauty that entails. Terrifically acted by the entire cast, Minari is perhaps the best movie to come out…
Nicolas Cage is on a mission to return a missing woman in the Japanese Wild West post-apocalyptic hellscape that is Prisoners of the Ghostland Prisoners of the Ghostland is easily the wildest film of Nicolas Cage's epic career. Mixing elements of Escape from New York and Mad Max: Fury Road with acid, the result is…
Mass watches as four people come together to talk through an old wound that has been preventing them from moving on with their lives Mass is a stunningly raw and emotional journey through trauma, grief, and healing featuring four tour-de-force performances that'll leave you breathless. Four people gather in a small room in the back…
John and the Hole follows a teen named John who holds his entire family captive in a deep concrete hole in the middle of the woods. John and the Hole as an intriguing enough premise holds you for some of its running time, but its lack of commitment to the black comedy or biting satire…
A doctor and a park ranger venture into the forest to find a research hub that went quiet in In the Earth. However, after a run-in with a stranger, they get more than they bargained for. In the Earth is a hypnotic, psychedelic, and anxiety-inducing assault on the senses that invokes comparisons to the best…
Herself follows a domestic abuse survivor and her two daughters as they literally rebuild their lives by building their own house See all our reviews from the 2020 Sundance Film Festival here. The opening scene of Phyllida Lloyd’s Irish drama Herself, which premiered in the World section at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, features a…
