Noah Berlatsky

No, this Guy Pearce-starring sci-fi shoot-'em-up doesn't have anything to say about correctional policy.… More »

Nicolas Cage's 'Seeking Justice' is a bad action film that embraces the faulty idea that vengeance can be noble.… More »

As verse becomes increasingly dry, it's getting more and more irrelevant.… More »

Tony Rice's new 'The Bill Monroe Collection' shows how the music style Monroe invented endures.… More »

Found footage reinvigorates an old tale of teenagers growing up, learning to fly, and wanting to become their fathers.… More »

'Beneath the Blindfold' shows how the consequences of brutal interrogations linger for a long time.… More »

Finally, the moral emptiness of the exorcism genre gets crossed with mass production… More »

Anxiety over race underlay some of the most vivid moments in Herge's comics, a dynamic that Spielberg, understandably, nixed for his new animated adaptation… More »

A documentary reminds us why the black power movement is still relevant… More »

Empty sex on film gets called art, not porn, when it focuses on brooding men… More »

The two series have very different heroines—and critics overwhelmingly prefer one… More »

Justin Timberlake's slick sci-fi tale portrays the rich as evil—even as it covets their wealth… More »

The 1982, all-male John Carpenter monster film came with a sexual subtext. The new prequel features females—and ends up playing like a conventional slasher flick.… More »

The big superhero publishers have a predictable, one-dimensional way of portraying women. But the genre has several diverse alternatives that are worth reading.… More »

A relic of the time when rock doubled as pop, the '80s survivors' latest album is nonetheless a fun listen… More »

The massively popular '90s manga series is about to be re-released in a new English translation. Will it remind comics writers and movie-makers that girls like superheroes, too?… More »