13 reviews in this category.
Six is a dazzlingly produced, genuinely catchy piece of theater built on a thesis that is pure modern identity politics: the six women are defined only by their victimhood until they reclaim their voice and rewrite history without the man at the cent…...
The Color Purple (2023) is a well-made musical adaptation of a story that VirtueVigil readers should understand before purchasing a ticket....
La La Land is the rare film that earns its reputation without being what its reputation suggests....
Michael Jackson is the most complicated subject a biopic could attempt in 2026. He is the most successful recording artist in American history. He may have sexually abused children.…...
The Greatest Showman is critic-proof. It has been critic-proof since it opened Christmas 2017 to 55% on Rotten Tomatoes and then proceeded to play in theaters for months, drive one of the most commercially successful soundtracks of the decade, and be…...
Craig Brewer found a true story so improbable, so heartbreaking, and so genuinely joyful that all he had to do was get out of its way. Mostly, he does....
Better Man is the most creatively audacious biopic in recent memory and also one of the most commercially disastrous.…...
Here's the thing about Mean Girls (2024): it's not the culture war flashpoint that either side wants it to be....
Joker: Folie a Deux is a $200 million act of cinematic self-immolation. Todd Phillips took one of the most commercially successful and culturally resonant character studies of the 2010s and produced a sequel that exists primarily to punish its predec…...
The moment the first marketing image dropped, showing Halle Bailey as Ariel, the internet divided cleanly in two. One half celebrated. The other half complained.…...
Wicked: For Good picks up where Part One left off, and the question facing conservative viewers is essentially the same: are you willing to sit through two and a half hours of progressive allegory in exchange for genuinely spectacular filmmaking? Bec…...
Somewhere between the 400 brand partnerships, the Limited Edition pink-and-green Stanley cups, and the church-group holiday matinees, something got lost in translation. Universal sold Wicked as the feel-good movie event of 2024.…...
Disney's live-action Snow White arrives carrying more baggage than a royal carriage.…...
