Kyle Turner: Film Writer // Not a Golem

Midnight Kiss is a horror film for the age of Mayor Pete, imagining a self-cultivated gay emptiness at the turn of the decade.

The grisly new docu-series reveals the voyeuristic prism the internet has become.

It is precisely the kind of movie that the Oscars exist to celebrate, a middlebrow film that encourages middlebrow viewers to think of themselves as thoughtful consumers of elevated entertainment.

I think your “ScarJo is Asian” jokes are stupid

From ghosting to cyber-sex to swiping right, it's all here.

Another year, another couple homewrecked, another layer of calcification, another foot away in ironic distance, I mean, another foot into my obsession with Stephen Sondheim’s Company. But you…

Stephen Sondheim, alive at 89, has strangely haunted pop culture this year.

Even with his latest film, the whistleblower thriller "Dark Waters"—which has been accused of being not very Todd Haynes-y—everything comes back home.

Noah Baumbach, Rian Johnson, and Todd Phillips (well, his music supervisor) explain.

Adam Driver yelling? Sign us up.

The next supposed “great work” about Gay New York starts but never begins

An idea of what a canon of Mayor “Petite Bourgeois” might look like

For 'Parasite', Bong is no less interested in inequality’s consequences compared to his earlier films, but here he sees how class as performance manifests, particularly when people are plucked from one echelon of society and put in another.

Their podcast is a very 2019 version of finding love

In 'Joker,' Arthur Fleck bombs hard, carrying on a proud tradition of shitty cinematic joke-telling.

Wrecked by bad reviews, 'The Goldfinch' is clearly a mess. But what if it's a beautiful one? What if all that mess has meaning?

With 'Hustlers' in theaters, Kyle Turner remembers a similar con that deserves some reassessing: 'Ocean's 8'.