I wanted to love this, but SLEEPAWAY CAMP III: TEENAGE WASTELAND mostly just feels like a lesser reworking of the 2nd film, which was already a significant step down from the original. Pamela Springsteen seems to have really settled into her role here, but Angela's character feels more muddled than ever, murdering a camper so she can steal her identity and wreak more havoc at a summer camp. Gone is any reference to gender or sexuality - Angela's oversized bra…

Iain Softley's adaptation of Henry James' THE WINGS OF THE DOVE is certainly beautiful, but it really needs to be messier and meaner to get at the heart of its tale of unrequited love, backstabbing, and casual cruelty among the Edwardian upper-class. Helena Bonham Carter is terrific as the ward of a wealthy aristocrat who falls in love with a man of lower social status she is forbidden to marry. Together, they launch a scheme for him to seduce a…

Jane Schoenbrun's I SAW THE TV GLOW is ostensibly a film about the bonds created by the communal act of watching favorite TV shows. These are the kinds of deeply personal cult hits that feel as though they're made just for you; like a secret shared amongst friends that not only defines you but gives you an identity as a member of an exclusive club in which minutiae and trivia become a kind of language only the initiated can understand.…

Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, WICKED the musical debuted on Broadway in 2003, becoming one of those rare crossover stage hits that reverberated beyond the typical audience of Broadway fans and theatre kids and into the general consciousness. Yet despite its popularity, it's taken over 20 years to bring this Broadway juggernaut to the screen. The result is a gargantuan, two part film, whose first entry, covering just the first act of the show, runs roughly the same…