Andrew Karpan

How Phantom Thread Won The Internet

If there were an Oscar for content, PT Anderson would be in the gold. Read More

Remember When Donald Glover Made a Mumblecore Movie Before Doing ‘Atlanta’?

Donald Glover's long history of being on the money. Read More

Have We Had a Movie About Disability Better Than ‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’?

Even a decade later, Julian Schnabel’s depiction of disability went to a space few cinematic depictions do. Read More

Is ‘Three Billboards’ The New ‘Crash’?

McDonagh and Haggis are both sinewy edgelords. But different kinds. Read More

J.K. Simmons Faces J.K. Simmons in Multiple Dimensions in Starz’s ‘Counterpart’

Dark, fun, spy stuff awaits in both dimensions.  Read More

‘Blame’ Review: Quinn Shephard’s Debut Is a Vital High School Drama

A coming of age tale that bristles with the worldview of how highschoolers see themselves. Read More

The Working Class Heroes of 2017

This was a year in which Hollywood reached out into the rest of America to find some of its most… Read More

‘The Hudsucker Proxy’ is My Version of a Capra Christmas

Why not define Christmas in the terms that we celebrate it? Read More

Why Virgil Williams Changed the Ending to ‘Mudbound’

How Virgil Williams and Dee Rees made a novel into their own Oscar-worthy meditation on race in America. Read More