Lisa Laman

Joined: May 24, 2024

Save for Karla Sofía Gascón's performance, Emilia Pérez's ambitions are undercut by staggeringly generic execution

2024 Gotham Awards nominations have been announced...what do they mean for award season?

Long-term psychological trauma is thoughtfully rendered in the excellent Black Box Diaries

How did November 2012 become the biggest November ever at the box office?

Venom: The Last Dance has underwhelming domestic bow while Conclave and Anora soar at the box office

Good lord, Conclave is a twisty-turny treat with delightful bombast to spare

The new documentary Union is a fiercely engaging depiction of working-class endurance

We Live in Time could've carved out some hours to cultivate more personality

Dahomey emphasizes the marginalized in contemplating colonialism's modern-day manifestations

The messy Venom: The Last Dance uncovers fun improvements on its middling predecessors

André Holland and John Earl Jelks mesmerizingly grapple with the past in Exhibiting Forgiveness

Smile 2 is a hit in an otherwise frown-inducing October 2024 box office frame

Blumhouse Productions further reinforces its creative decline with abhorrent AI/Meta partnership

Which actors will Christopher Nolan bring back for his 2026 movie?

Smile 2 is no Trap or Longlegs in its tepid vision of pop star scares and unhinged horror

Rumours is a flawed but sporadically amusing depiction of a G7 apocalypse