People We Meet on Vacation is, at its core, exactly what a modern rom-com should be. It is colorful, cringey in the best way, deeply wholesome, and genuinely comforting. I had a really lovely time watching it. It is the kind of movie that invites you to settle in, soften a little, and believe, if only for a couple of hours, in the inevitability of two people finding their way back to each other. Emily Bader is, without question, the heart of the film. She is a perfect Poppy.

Some shows break out. Heated Rivalry detonated. The scale of its success still feels slightly unreal, especially because it arrived without the usual machinery that accompanies cultural domination. No one seemed to be planning for this. Not Crave Canada. Not Rachel Reid, whose beloved novel inspired the series. Not director and writer Jacob Tierney. And certainly not Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie, who have gone from quietly grinding toward their dreams, working restaura

Marty Supreme is a film I genuinely enjoyed, even if it never quite reached the heights its reception and marketing seemed to promise. I was engaged, impressed, and often entertained, but I did not feel the euphoric, life-affirming rush that surrounded it. Rather than leaving the theater exhilarated, I walked away thoughtful and satisfied, but slightly out of step with how loudly the film was being celebrated. This reaction is not rooted in a rejection of Marty as a characte

I grew up with Stranger Things . I started watching it when I was around thirteen or fourteen years old, and now I am twenty-three, almost twenty-four, standing on the edge of adulthood in a way that feels both exciting and terrifying. Watching the finale did not feel like simply finishing a TV show. It felt like saying goodbye to a piece of my childhood, to a constant that had been there through so many phases of my life. That realization alone made the ending hit so much ha

Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love is a film that doesn’t simply depict emotion; it traps you inside it. Adapted from Ariana Harwicz’s 2012 novel, it follows Grace and Jackson, a young couple who leave the big city for the quiet of Jackson’s rural childhood town in Montana. They are searching for calm, for renewal, for a life that feels real again. But when their son is born, Grace’s world begins to shrink. What starts as restlessness becomes isolation. What begins as love turns int

Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value is a film of extraordinary intimacy and restraint, one that captures how families speak to one another through art when ordinary language has failed. It is a story about the words that remain unsaid and how filmmaking itself becomes a form of translation, a way of expressing love, guilt, and regret without ever having to say “I’m sorry.” The film begins with the death of Sissel, a psychotherapist and mother of two grown daughters. Her passin