Female relationships as a cat-and-mouse game have emerged as a reliable source of buzzy series, and AMC+ original miniseries “Too Close” throws itself into the ring with a setup now familiar for this subgenre. The trend fueled by programs like “Killing Eve,” “The Secrets She Keeps,” and “Losing Alice”—one about a female detective trailing a…

“Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K.,” premiering this weekend on Hulu, alternates MCU tropes and family sitcom energy with the darker numbing bureaucracy of something like “Veep,” all told in the style of “Robot Chicken.” Just trust me. Produced by the Seth Green-led company that made “Robot Chicken,” it is yet another animated series set in the Marvel universe but with a tone unlike…

If the best comedy is essentially very serious, or has a very serious basis, then that explains the career of Charles Grodin, an uncommonly intense and all-around uncommon performer who had his own unsettling point of view and style. His eyes burned with need and lust and outrage, and he never needed to do all…

I still cannot believe that John Krasinski got moviegoers to be silent back in 2018. His box-office smash “A Quiet Place” (co-written with Scott Beck and Bryan Woods) went beyond caring about characters trying to survive in quiet—it taught uneasy audiences to follow suit, filling theaters with silent observers. No moviegoer would want Krasinski to…

To describe the new Australian import “Sequin in a Blue Room” as a queer coming-of-age story is technically accurate, I suppose, but it hardly begins to suggest what lies in store for viewers. Instead of the earnest drama or awkward comedy one might expect from such a description, “Sequin in a Blue Room” that plays…

Director Jonathan Glazer mines beauty in the darkest of caves. In both feature films and music videos, there’s a pervading sense of eeriness and anxiety, a feeling that something wicked is around the corner. Glazer doesn’t work with conventional plot structure. Instead, he builds tension with off-kilter visual effects, juxtaposing beautiful fantasies with harrowing nightmares. In his films,…