Nicole Veneto
Our demanding critics choose the best films (along with some disappointments) of the year. And there is plenty of disagreement.
There’s still room for Brandon Cronenberg to grow as a horror director, but Infinity Pool should make his father proud. It’s a sensory nightmare of bodily dissociation and high class decadence that signals a promising start to 2023.
M3GAN is a movie algorithmically generated to spawn as many memes about itself as possible before undiscerning viewers realize what they’re watching is a reworked Black Mirror draft.
Our demanding critics choose the best films (along with some disappointments) of the year. And there is plenty of disagreement.
Amanda Kramer’s created a thoroughly campy and celebratory ode to queerness that stands as both a timely political statement and a genuinely well-crafted piece of independent filmmaking.
Move over Patrick Bateman, there’s a new axe-wielding psychopath for impressionable young cinephiles to project themselves onto in town.
Babysitter tackles the ambiguities of misogyny head-on in a 35 mm sugar rush of magical suburban realism.
This horror comedy traps a cadre of privileged, narcissistic Zennials in a whodunit murder mystery and lets their internet-addled delusions of grandeur tear them apart in the paranoid fallout.
Nope, Jordan Peele’s highly anticipated third feature, is an awe-inspiring marvel about our own unrelenting obsession with spectacle.
Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2023
Our demanding critics choose the best films (along with some disappointments) of the year. And there is plenty of disagreement.
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