J.B. Spins

Christoph Waltz brings up the rear of our exclusive Tribeca coverage at Criminal Element with Georgetown now live here .

He gave crazy a bad name during a time of craziness. Exclusive Tribeca review of Charlie Says  now up here .

It was the meltdown and the cover-up. Exclusive Criminal Element review of HBO's  Chernobyl now up here .

In Maine, the Haddock is tasty, but sibling loyalty can be murder. The exclusive Tribeca review of Blow the Man Down is now up on Criminal...

We promise, absolutely no spoilers in our Tribeca review of Come to Daddy , now up exclusively at Criminal Element   here .

It's sort of a reverse-curtain-raiser. As we gear up for this year's Tribeca Film Festival, we look back at the best of mysteries,...

Get psyched to feel empowered and nostalgic. Nancy Drew is back on the case. J.B.'s exclusive review of Nancy Drew and the Hidden Stai...

The Mafia's assassination of two crusading judges was not well-covered in the drive-by media (big surprise), but photographer Letizia ...

It might just be Blumhouse that truly breaks out David Oyelowo as a box-office-opening movie-star. Exclusive Criminal Element Sundance rev...

Good news, Alex Gibney's latest documentary-of-the-week is one of his best. Exclusive Criminal Element review of The Inventor: Out for...

Zac Efron is surprisingly good as Ted Bundy, but the film will really make people all kinds of uncomfortable. Exclusive 2019 Sundance Film...

It's time to visit Slamdance with a couple of trouble-making out-of-town New Yorkers. Exclusive Criminal Element review of Lost Holida...

Exclusive Criminal Element coverage of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival fittingly kicks off with the documentary Stieg Larsson: The Man Who...

So here's something the entire family can binge together during the holidays. Feel the love in Acorn TV's Blood , a dark morality ...

Yes, it stacks the deck against the great, progressive State of Israel, just like the source novel, but when Park Chan-wook directs Michae...

All the episodes debut tomorrow, but it is already renewed for a second season. This is how TV works these days, if we can still use that ...

It is an auteurist Cannes favorite chosen by South Korea as their official foreign language Oscar submission, but it is still tense and my...

Perhaps fittingly, J.B.’s first piece for Criminal Element goes back to where crime fiction started, or at least when it first reached wid...