Angelica Bastién

A five-week course with critic Angelica Jade Bastién examining stardom throughout film history — in and outside of Hollywood.

With his feature debut, Preparation for the Next Life, director Bing Liu probes the perils and illusory qualities of the American Dream.

That Sue is by far the most compelling character to watch, however, accentuates how poorly developed the rest of them are.

Celine Song’s latest romantic film seeks to be both a frothy fantasy and a treatise on the nature of modern love. It fails at both.

It’s a film that will haunt me just as much as it will keep me wondering who Ryan Coogler wants to be on the other side of Creed and Black Panther.

The F1 press tour has been a carefully tuned charm offensive meant to obscure Pitt’s alleged violent behavior toward ex-wife Angelina Jolie.

The film about a female CEO cheating with a male intern is less scintillating and more a chilly, half-formed women’s picture.

The slick thriller starring Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett makes monogamy look hot. That’s how good this Steven Soderbergh film is.

The latest Osgood Perkins movie, adapted from a Stephen King story, is a fine diversion — if you ignore the gaping hole at its center.

Have you watched ‘Reacher’? Vulture’s Angelica Jade Bastién finally gave in to the streaming juggernaut earlier this year, expecting wallpaper TV at its tamest. She found a white-power fantasy instead.