Category Archives: Variety

‘Over Your Dead Body’ Review: Jason Segel and Samara Weaving Are Out to Kill Each Other in a Mad Thriller That May Be the Quintessential SXSW Movie
It's a bloody cat-and-mouse game of the most extreme kind - a spectacle of sadistic survivalism gone mad, all staged with a logistically brutal joy.
Owen Gleiberman Mar 14, 2026

‘Sender’ SXSW Review: Britt Lower and Rhea Seehorn Deliver the Goods in a Paranoid Mystery Centered on the Sinister Ease of Online Ordering
The catchy premise motoring "Sender," a story about a harried woman who moves into a rental home and quickly becomes inundated with packages she didn't order, transforms beyond its simple, straightfor...
Courtney Howard Mar 14, 2026

‘Their Town’ Review: A Familiar but Lovely Coming-of-Age Tale from Katie Aselton and the Duplass Family
Between exploring new interests, engaging with new styles and making new friends, our young years are a searching pursuit of identity, and thus one of cinema's enduring topics. That quest is very much...
Tomilaffly Mar 14, 2026

‘Chili Finger’ Review: A Brilliant Judy Greer is a Clueless Scammer in This Starry Crime Caper With Coen Brothers Vibes
In 2005, a San Jose woman found a human finger in her Wendy's chili. Well, she claimed to. When it was discovered that she planted the finger in the bowl herself for financial gain, she was sentenced ...
Tomilaffly Mar 14, 2026

Nick Jonas Warns ‘Be Careful Who You Share a Blunt With’ as Paul Rudd Music Comedy ‘Power Ballad’ Rocks SXSW
Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas rocked SXSW with “Power Ballad,” the latest music-themed comedy film from “Once” and “Sing Street” director John Carney. The movie follows ...
Ethan Shanfeld Mar 14, 2026

‘#WhileBlack’ Review: A Scattered Documentary on Filming Police Brutality
A documentary about citizen journalism in the digital age, Jennifer Holness and Sidney Fussell's "#WhileBlack" uses, as its foundation, stories of police violence from the last decade - namely, the mu...
Siddhant Adlakha Mar 14, 2026

‘Pretty Lethal’ Review: A Ballet Action Romp With Limited Imagination
What if an American ballerina quintet was dropped into a mob flick in Central Europe? Director Vicky Jewson answers this question in "Pretty Lethal," at first with aplomb, but eventually with all the ...
Siddhant Adlakha Mar 14, 2026

Paramount Passes on ‘G.I. Joe’ Treatment from Max Landis (EXCLUSIVE)
Paramount Pictures and Hasbro are not moving forward with a take on a new G.I. Joe movie from screenwriter Max Landis, multiple sources told Variety. Landis, son of "Trading Places" director John Land...
Varietymattdonnelly Mar 14, 2026

‘Manhood’ Review: Daniel Lombroso Sensitively Navigates Insecurities of American Masculinity While Breaking Its Taboos
While society's unrealistic expectations for women and the impossible physical standards we are held up against are often discussed and critiqued, the similar pressures men face aren't as widely talke...
Tomilaffly Mar 14, 2026

Jamie Lee Curtis Likely Would Have Passed on Jason Blum’s ‘Halloween’ Sequel If She Knew It Was a Trilogy. So, She Used It to Get a Development Deal
Jamie Lee Curtis didn’t know she was about to take on three more “Halloween” movies when she said yes to David Gordon Green’s 2018 film, the sequel to her 1978 film. During a S...
Emily Longeretta Mar 14, 2026