Star Wars Zero Company Review: Every Soldier Starts to Matter
The first camera move tells you where Star Wars Zero Company wants to live. Republic and Separatist fleets hammer each...
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The funniest trick Stamptown pulls is convincing you that nobody knows what is happening. Zach Zucker barrels around the Montalbán Theatre as Jack Tucker, a disheveled New York comic who appears to be hosting a variety show during its final moments of structural collapse. Performers arrive without warning. Stagehands become characters. Sound cues misbehave. Neil Patrick Harris materializes, disappears, then returns for beer-related intimacy. Somewhere inside the wreckage, somebody has clearly planned all of this. Filmed during the Netflix Is A Joke festival, this streaming version condenses the stage phenomenon Zucker developed through years of Edinburgh Fringe performances into roughly...

Marko Brdar’s camera rarely needs to move because everyone in Small Things is already trapped exactly where Zvonimir Jurić wants them. The 4:3 frame compresses a weathered island house around Anica, Irena, their aging father, and their withdrawn brother Ivan, turning rooms into emotional compartments. Doors divide relatives who sleep only a few metres apart. Shadows swallow portions of faces. Conversations occur across tables where proximity offers little comfort. The family has returned because their father intends to sell his orchard and divide the money. That practical decision immediately exposes older fractures. Irena, pregnant and struggling inside a failing marriage,...

The first camera move tells you where Star Wars Zero Company wants to live. Republic and Separatist fleets hammer each other in orbit, Clone Troopers trade fire with battle droids below, and then the lens drifts away from the famous war toward a much smaller fight happening at its edge. Bit Reactor could have built another game around Jedi generals and galactic icons. Instead, it gives the dangerous work to people history would probably forget. That choice gives this turn-based tactics game a personality that its obvious XCOM inheritance cannot provide by itself. Hawks, a former Republic commander turned mercenary,...

Jack Wolfe has the sort of retirement plan that only makes sense to a criminal who assumes everyone around him is nearly as dishonest as he is. Facing prosecution after evidence threatens to expose the illegal origins of his fortune, he asks his wife Nora to help stage his murder, collect a $30 million life-insurance payout, and split the money before the two finally part ways. Just Play Dead, directed by Martin Campbell from Dan Gordon’s adaptation of his own novel, transports this setup to the Canary Islands, where criminal calculation plays out against villas, beaches, and postcard-blue water. Samuel...

Television spent years telling us that the streaming model would liberate comedy from the restrictions of network scheduling. Adults Season 2 offers a less triumphant interpretation: perhaps somebody should have kept the 22-episode order. Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold’s FX comedy returns to the Queens house shared by Issa (Amita Rao), Billie (Lucy Freyer), Paul Baker (Jack Innanen), Anton (Owen Thiele), and Samir (Malik Elassal), five twentysomethings trying to construct adulthood from unstable jobs, dubious romantic choices, and the reassuring knowledge that somebody nearby is making an even worse decision. Season 1 established the arrangement but sometimes confused provocation with...

Five days before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Helena Maksyom records herself listing the life she expects to have. She wants to learn French, play the piano, travel across an ocean, care for her mother, maybe become a mother herself. It is February 15, 2022. History already has other plans. That opening gives Don’t Ask Me If I Killed its most painful idea before a weapon appears: war steals possible futures first. Maksyom, previously co-director of Everything Will Not Be Fine, initially assists with evacuations before joining Ukraine’s National Guard. She becomes the only woman in her unit, later serves...
The first camera move tells you where Star Wars Zero Company wants to live. Republic and Separatist fleets hammer each...
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Read moreThe funniest trick Stamptown pulls is convincing you that nobody knows what is happening. Zach Zucker barrels around the Montalbán Theatre as Jack Tucker, a disheveled New York comic who...
Marko Brdar’s camera rarely needs to move because everyone in Small Things is already trapped exactly where Zvonimir Jurić wants them. The 4:3 frame compresses a weathered island house around...
The first camera move tells you where Star Wars Zero Company wants to live. Republic and Separatist fleets hammer each other in orbit, Clone Troopers trade fire with battle droids...
Jack Wolfe has the sort of retirement plan that only makes sense to a criminal who assumes everyone around him is nearly as dishonest as he is. Facing prosecution after...
Television spent years telling us that the streaming model would liberate comedy from the restrictions of network scheduling. Adults Season 2 offers a less triumphant interpretation: perhaps somebody should have...
Five days before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Helena Maksyom records herself listing the life she expects to have. She wants to learn French, play the piano, travel across an...
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The first camera move tells you where Star Wars Zero Company wants to live. Republic and Separatist fleets hammer each...
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