Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2026. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

In Destroyer, Nicole Kidman looks like a hot mess. In the opening scene, her character, Los Angeles police detective Erin Bell, lumbers out of the car she slept in all night. She's got puffy, red eyes ...

Destroyer is a modern Los Angeles crime thriller that follows the moral and existential odyssey of LAPD detective Erin Bell who, as a young cop, was placed undercover with a gang in the California ...

In the golden renaissance of television, the prevailing wisdom is that HBO’s The Sopranos and AMC’s Breaking Bad put the crime noir genre out of business on the big screen. But with Destroyer, ...

Nicole Kidman’s very busy year – including roles in “Boy Erased” and “Aquaman” – concludes on a dour, dark note in “Destroyer,” with the actress starring in what feels like a detective yarn from an ...

What is distinctive about filmmaker Karyn Kusama’s work is how she approaches her stories visually and her heroines viscerally. Watching Michelle Rodriguez in “Girlfight,” Charlize Theron and Frances ...