Movie Reviews & Stories Nearly everything that happens in Rick Alverson’s The Comedy is uncomfortable, off-putting and morally reprehensible. But the events also amount to a hilarious and needed screed against the ennu   More

Movies & Television The children are feral and the aesthetic is creepy, but Mama (which screened after WW press deadlines) probably shouldn't have gotten Guillermo Del Toro's stamp of approval. Critic's Grade: C+By all accounts, the insanely imaginative Guillermo Del Toro is a very nice, jovial man. But there's a sneaking, lingering suspicion that the Mexican wunderkind really, really hates children. One glance ...   More

Movies & Television Broken City is for indiscriminating Mark Wahlberg fans—and for those who prefer Russell Crowe when he's not bursting into song. The film screened after WW press deadlines. The verdict? Passable.Critic's Grade: C+Mark Wahlberg has a rare (and marketable) quality: He remains likable even when his films are not. Viewers have seen enough of his work and know enough of his backstory to feel ...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories For all the talk about torture Zero Dark Thirty has generated, you’d be forgiven for thinking director Kathryn Bigelow spends 157 minutes   More

Brew Views Frederico Fellini’s lucid, semiautobiographical 1963 landmark, 8½, could be considered the template for filmdom’s self-aggrandizing tendencies. Suffering from director’s block, Fellini look   More

Movie Reviews & Stories It’s always tricky to criticize a film for what it fails to depict rather than for what it actually captures. But in The Impossible, the omission is so glaring that to disregard it would be to com   More

Movies & Television Not Fade Away screened after WW press deadlines. Critic Robert Ham thinks it should disappear entirely.Critic's Grade: DIn the last moments of Not Fade Away, the first feature film written and directed by The Sopranos creator David Chase, one of the film's minor characters appears on screen. She looks right in the camera, and slowly speaks about the greatness of rock-'n'-roll music. And then ...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories When alums from TV’s Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling reunite in a Vegas hotel more than 20 years after their show was canceled, three show up in wheelchairs. A few of the ambulatory ones boast to   More

Brew Views In 1999, Leos Carax’s Pola X landed with such a resounding commercial and critical thud that, until recently, no one would hire him. So with nothing to lose, and the financial backing of a hal   More

Movie Reviews & Stories 2012 has been a busy year on the WW film beat. In April, after five years at the helm, Aaron Mesh moved to the news desk. Matthew Singer replaced him until October, when he became music editor a   More