Lisa Laman

Joined: May 24, 2024

Lisa Laman is a life-long movie fan, writer, Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, and Critic's Choice Association located both on the autism spectrum and in Texas. Given that her first word was "Disney", Lisa Laman was "doomed" from the start to be a film geek! In addition to her work for Culturess, Lisa Laman has also has her work published in Dallas Observer, AutoStraddle, Polygon, ScarleTeen, The Spool, Collider, and Next Best Picture among many other outlets. ue, Fangoria, The Spool, and ScarleTeen. She has also presented original essays related to the world of cinema at multiple academic conferences, interviewed artists ranging from Froy Gutierrez to Mark Wahlberg, and co-hosts the weekly podcast The Outside Scoop. When she isn't watching and writing about movies, Lisa can be found playing with her pugs, eating queso, or belting out Carly Rae Jepsen songs at karaoke.

Daisy Ridley is a profane delight in the otherwise forgettable Cleaner

Captain America: Brave New World's decent opening comes with some major box office worries

Captain America: Brave New World trades in comic book goofiness for stale stabs at pathos

Christopher Abbott returns to delivering aching transfixing work in Bring Them Down

Heart Eyes and Love Hurts fail to kill it at the box office as Super Bowl weekend 2025 crumbles

Not even Ke Huy Quan can keep Love Hurts from pulling its action movie punches

70 Years Later, The Night of the Hunter is as mesmerizing and impressive as ever

Dog Man is a box office good boy while Companion debuts to mixed numbers

Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2008 masterpiece Still Walking lives up to the hype and then some

Companion is a vigorously entertaining thriller chillingly dialed-in to reality

The creativity of Heart Eyes is slashed by deeply obvious comedic dialogue

Marky Mark leads the box office as a financially dreary January 2025 winds down

You're Cordially Invited starts strong before stumbling into flat schmaltzy territory

Universal Language is a visually rich existential yukfest

The End is a flawed but commendable descent into a musical post-apocalypse (Review)

Ruggles of Red Gap focuses on a skewed, but pleasantly amusing, vision of small-town America