“Inside Out 2”: Once More, with Feelings

“Inside Out 2”: Once More, with Feelings

The best-loved Pixar movies are often spoken of in terms of their tried-and-true emotional impact, how reliably they reduce us to quivering lips and choked-back sobs, year after year, rewatch after rewatch. Sometimes a single inspired sequence can do the trick: I’m no great admirer of “Up” (2009), but its famous opening montage of married … Read more

“I Saw the TV Glow” Is a Profound Vision of the Trans Experience

“I Saw the TV Glow” Is a Profound Vision of the Trans Experience

The new movie by Jane Schoenbrun, “I Saw the TV Glow,” is among the most nocturnal films I’ve seen. Even in the handful of scenes that take place in daytime, the sun seems dark, shadowed by the dominant form of light in Schoenbrun’s world: the screen. There are cell-phone screens, computer screens, arcade games, glimpses … Read more