Complaints about Disney's recent fondness for live-action remakes are nothing new—I've certainly made many of them on this website and quite a few others. But watching Marc Webb's SNOW WHITE, I was overcome with such a feeling of "what are we doing here?" that it feels like we may have reached the nadir of this frustrating trend.

While the film may have been plagued with controversy from the start because of a bunch of pissant right-wing man-babies upset that star…

There's something almost indescribably moving about Terrence Davies' THE LONG DAY CLOSES, a certain all-encoming melancholy that feels impossible to adequately describe. An autobiographical portrait of a young boy's experiences growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s, the film is a kind of patchwork quilt of memories, impressions, and emotions, filtered through its protagonist's abiding love of the cinema.

The film explores young Bud's realization of his sexuality, represented by the shirtless laborers and brick layers whose glistening muscles first…

Jane Schoenbrun's I SAW THE TV GLOW is ostensibly a film about the bonds created by the communal act of watching favorite TV shows. These are the kinds of deeply personal cult hits that feel as though they're made just for you; like a secret shared amongst friends that not only defines you but gives you an identity as a member of an exclusive club in which minutiae and trivia become a kind of language only the initiated can understand.…

Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, WICKED the musical debuted on Broadway in 2003, becoming one of those rare crossover stage hits that reverberated beyond the typical audience of Broadway fans and theatre kids and into the general consciousness. Yet despite its popularity, it's taken over 20 years to bring this Broadway juggernaut to the screen. The result is a gargantuan, two part film, whose first entry, covering just the first act of the show, runs roughly the same…