Kurt Loder is a New York writer who also hosts the SiriusXM interview show True Stories. His most recent book is a film-review collection called The Good, the Bad and the Godawful.
Kurt Loder
Latest from Kurt Loder
Reviews: Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) and The Assistant
Women on top and trapped at the bottom.
Review: The Rhythm Section
Blake Lively and Jude Law overqualified for an unexciting spy flick.
Review: Little Women
Greta Gerwig directs Saoirse Ronan and Florence Pugh in a dazzling new take on the classic tale.
Review: Uncut Gems and Bombshell
A new kind of Adam Sandler flick and a predictably Hollywoodian Fox News takedown with a major star turn by Charlize Theron.
Review: Marriage Story
Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson are unforgettably good in this devastating (and funny) divorce chronicle.
Review: Knives Out
Schemes abound in this ridiculously complicated country manor murder mystery.
Review: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Some quality time with Tom Hanks’s Mister Rogers.
Review: Charlie's Angels
Kristen Stewart in another reboot of the venerable action franchise.
Review: One Child Nation
A quietly horrifying look back at China’s disastrous, 35-year-long national birth-control program.
Reviews: The Irishman and Terminator: Dark Fate
De Niro, Pesci and Pacino in Scorsese’s most melancholy mob drama, and Schwarzenegger returns in the latest installment of a super-played-out franchise.
Review: The Current War: Director's Cut
Lighting up with Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon.
Reviews: Zombieland: Double Tap and The Lighthouse
Undead again with Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone, and some dark and stormy nights with Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson.
Reviews: Ad Astra and One Cut of the Dead
Brad Pitt’s outer-space daddy issues and a look behind the scenes at the zombie apocalypse.
Review: It Chapter Two
Bill Hader and Jessica Chastain in a very long and crowded horror sequel.
Reviews: Don't Let Go and The Fanatic
David Oyelowo in a sci-fi crime thriller and John Travolta in a movie by Fred Durst.
Reviews: A Score to Settle and Them That Follow
A low-intensity Nic Cage (what’s the point?) and a long-overdue visit with some hillbilly snake handlers.
Review: Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino journeys into the movie-biz past and replays the Manson murders.
Review: Stuber
Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista are well worth seeing, but not in this movie.
Reviews: Men in Black: International and The Dead Don't Die
The unrequested return of a vintage comedy franchise, and a brand-new brain-dead zombie riff.
Movie Review: All Is True
Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench and Ian McKellen—three great Shakespeareans—in a glowing tribute to Shakespeare himself.
Movie Review: Avengers: Endgame
Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson and Chris Hemsworth assemble a decade’s worth of superheroes for a long, fond…farewell?
Movie Review: High Life
Robert Pattinson in Claire Denis's slow-going sci-fi exercise.
TV Review: The Twilight Zone
Jordan Peele puts his nerdcore imprimatur on a classy reboot.
Movie Review: The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Elizabeth Holmes, queen of lies
Movie Reviews: The Hole in the Ground and Mapplethorpe
Slow-boil Irish horror and a biopic for the master of rough-trade sex photography.
