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  • Maame Review

    Maame Review

    In a cross between Michaela Coel’s “Chewing Gum,” the Mindy Kaling-produced “Never Have I Ever,” and Talia Hibbert’s Get a Life, Chloe Brown, Jessica George presents a fresh and heartbreakingly funny bildungsroman of an endearingly guileless, nerdy, and messy late-bloomer with a singular voice. Read more

  • Release

    Release

    It exists now: sound made solid; time that’s tangible and coded. Read more

  • The New Girl Review

    The New Girl Review

    A rising track star, newly transferred on a coveted athletic scholarship, quickly gets mired in a mounting web of secrets, cheating scandals, digital gossip, cyberbullying, and murder at an elite Northern California boarding school. Read more

  • Everything I Know About Love Review

    Everything I Know About Love Review

    A quick-paced coming-of-age portrait that reads like a sitcom, Everything I Know About Love is an interesting cocktail that’s part laughter, excitement, and romance; part cringe, existential despair, and tragedy; and part deeply heartfelt moments, platonic love, and self-evolution. Read more

  • Better than Fiction Review

    Better than Fiction Review

    A grieving, pragmatic bookstore owner with an unlikely aversion to reading discovers more than the pleasures of getting lost in a good book while going on a series of literary-inspired adventures around Denver with an idealistic bestselling romance author. Read more

  • A Live Haunting

    A Live Haunting

    No, there are nightmares more intense and ordinary: the ones that occur in the day. Read more