Author: Kasey Butcher

Battle of the Sexes dramatizes the founding of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) and their fight for more equal pay

Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! is sure to polarize audiences. Although it looks like a home invasion thriller, the film uses allegory

In a cultural climate fraught with anger, many artists have turned to imagining new versions of the Civil War to

Since her days as April Ludgate on Parks and Recreation, I have been a fan of Aubrey Plaza’s dark, very

When I was a kid, I collected dolls with my mother. I loved them, but my brother thought they were

If grief is love with no place to go, then A Ghost Story is a beautiful, self-indulgent, flawed portrait of

It has become a trope for characters in films and television shows to want their lives to play out like

At the end of The Beguiled, as I was thinking, “what did I just watch?” I heard a man mutter,

Wonder Woman was one of the most anticipated movies of the summer, and it lived up to the expectations, both

When I reviewed The Circle, I suggested that the book must be better than the movie. I read the book

The pairing of a beloved comedic actress of an earlier generation and one of comedy’s biggest names today in a

Since the election, tech and media companies have asked hard questions about their roles in our democracy. The Circle picks

In The Void, a police officer, Daniel Carter (Aaron Poole) drops an injured man off at a barely functioning hospital,

In the last month, I’ve reviewed a couple of monster movies. King Kong: Skull Island considered the impact of man

Scary, ironic, and exciting, Life takes staples of its genre and twists them with little ironies that make an old

Full disclosure: the King Kong movies make me emotional. The determination of people to capture the giant ape after barging

When comedian and horror-fan Jordan Peele wrote and directed his own scary movie, I was not sure what to expect.

Honestly, when I first saw posters for Jackie starring Natalie Portman as the former First Lady, I was deeply skeptical

M. Night Shyamalan tries too hard. For years, I have mused over why he has struggled to make a film

La La Land tells the story of Mia (Emma Stone) and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), an aspiring actress and a jazz

Manchester by the Sea, a film getting a lot of early Oscar buzz, focuses on family dysfunction and grief in

Back in 2005, I wrote a review for Mr. & Mrs. Smith starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, rumored to

As a woman with a Ph.D., I have a bit of a soft spot for stories in which the hero

I’m not much of a Dan Brown fan—I’ve read just one of his books (ten years ago), and until now

Every now and then, I check out a book that I am able to read in one day, because I

I have come to assume that a film helmed by Disney will shy away from more complicated parts of life

If the cliché holds that no good deed goes unpunished, then Sully captures the ways in which Captain Chesley “Sully”

The Light Between the Oceans takes place on an island called Janus, named after the Roman god with two faces,

Summer is a popular season for comedies about friends traveling together. This month’s Joshy, gives the genre a different spin

After how much I enjoyed Ghostbusters, I should have known that it was too much to hope for another great