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  • How to Sell a Haunted House Review

    How to Sell a Haunted House Review

    Poignant, funny, and utterly creepy. Absurdity mixed with a thick layer of dread. How to Sell a Haunted House delivers the grounded and recognizable pangs of sibling rivalry, parental favoritism, family secrets, and the long and complex process of grief filtered through an extraordinary paranormal tale of intergenerational trauma, evil puppets, and haunted houses. Read more

  • 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