Reviews

Nightborn

What could be more terrifying than motherhood?

Issue
102
Sheep in the Box

Like most fictional robots, Kakeru wants to be a real boy.

Issue
101
Memorizu

“Memorizu” means exactly what you think it does.

Issue
100
The Odyssey

Tell me, oh Muse, of the new Christopher Nolan movie.

Issue
99
Rose of Nevada

It’s unlikely that you’ll see anything quite like Rose of Nevada this year (or next year or the year after, for that matter).

Issue
98
Disclosure Day

What a gift Steven Spielberg is.

Issue
97
Promised Sky

How do you talk to a child about something they’re too young to understand is the most traumatic event they’ll ever experience?

Issue
96
The Little Sister

No one comes out of the closet in The Little Sister, but it’s still a kind of coming-out story.

Issue
95
Renoir

A curious movie about a curious little girl, Renoir introduces its 11-year-old heroine as she watches home videos of crying babies.

Issue
94
Is God Is

To one degree or another, every revenge movie is about the futility of revenge. (Every good one, at least.)

Issue
93
The Sheep Detectives

The Sheep Detectives is, beautifully and absurdly, both a heartfelt meditation on the meaning of life and the story of talking sheep who solve a mystery.

Issue
92
Silent Friend

Trees are inherently cinematic; they’re also innately philosophical.

Issue
91