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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) Hugo Emmerzael One of the most profound cinematic explorations of sexuality and identity of our recent times, arguably making it Schoenbrun’s first genuine masterpiece.
Posted May 14, 2026  Edit critic review
The Electric Kiss (2026) Hugo Emmerzael With Pierre Salvadori’s The Electric Kiss (La Vénus électrique), [Cannes] has managed to double down on its promise of abominable festival kick-offs.
Posted May 14, 2026  Edit critic review
The Sheep Detectives (2026) Jefferson Everest Crawford Doesn't fully distract from the drab mystery the film lazily purloins from superior fare, but it just might be enough. After all, The Sheep Detectives is more Thomas Hardy than Agatha Christie.
Posted May 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D) (2026) Ethan J. Rosenberg The best concert films alchemize good footage into something new... Hit Me Hard and Soft clears the very low bar of making it seem like it was fun to be in the room, but it’s not a great work of art.
Posted May 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Uchronia (2026) Padaí Ó Maolchalann There’s simply so much to enjoy, endure, and unpack in Uchronia... If the result is patchy in its effectiveness, it’s still a thrill to see a filmmaker display this much daring.
Posted May 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Every Contact Leaves a Trace (2025) Michael Sicinski Without a deeper structure, the fragments Sachs offers do not hang together, and don’t tell us very much through their juxtaposition. As it stands, the film feels like a collection of false starts.
Posted May 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] (2026) Anand Sudha As a chronicling of the struggles and, eventually, the small successes of the MACPRA members, Aanikoobijigan takes care to emphasize the emotional resonances affiliated with museum "objects."
Posted May 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Everyone Is Lying to You for Money (2025) Matt McCracken The film as a whole is charmingly personal, with an odyssey-like structure providing the exact right on- and off-ramps for a journey that wasn’t going to change the destination of anyone already aboard the crypto-ship.
Posted May 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Living the Land (2025) Morris Yang Huo’s observational brushstrokes neither exoticize nor valorize their subjects, and... brims with a quiet curiosity about the many inner lives as they intersect and are interwoven.
Posted May 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Blue Film (2025) Chris Cassingham [The film's] lack of emotional and sexual catharsis is a refreshingly realistic approach on Tuttle’s part to subject matter that deserves to be taken seriously.
Posted May 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Bunnylovr (2025) Morris Yang For all the title’s edgy truncation, Bunnylovr settles for something less than its potentially enthralling avatar.
Posted May 10, 2026  Edit critic review
The Python Hunt (2025) Frank Falisi Aas as much to say about the weird morays of American governance... as it does the Everglades’ existence as a baffling photobook of supernatural imagery as it does the idiot glee encased in humanity’s eternal quest to see something new.
Posted May 10, 2026  Edit critic review
RZA's One Spoon of Chocolate (2025) Jefferson Everest Crawford With One Spoon of Chocolate, The RZA at least has some clue where the train is headed... Sadly, the vision hasn’t coalesced. We are left, in the end, with less than a spoon’s worth.
Posted May 10, 2026  Edit critic review
After Dreaming (2025) Chris Cassingham Haroutounian has captured a malaise so marrow-deep it alters consciousness.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
The History of Concrete (2026) Matt Lynch The History of Concrete is about so much more than just concrete. It might even be about everything... A tremendous ode to hope and kindness in the face of inevitable collapse.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
The School Duel (2024) Jake Tropila Puts an Orwellian spin on America’s gun epidemic... [but is] ultimately rendered redundant by representing the real-life horrors that continue to permeate the country today presentationally, without much interrogation.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Roommates (2026) Michael Scoular [Roommates] is [Levack's] most wide-ranging and tonally controlled film so far.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Apex (2026) Daniel Gorman Stick with Alone, or The River Wild, or Cliffhanger, or, hell, even Wrong Turn instead. There’s far more life in those life-or-death thrillers than you’ll find in Apex.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Over Your Dead Body (2026) Chris Mello In dropping the pretense of having something to say to instead seek cheap thrills for genre fans, Over Your Dead Body delivers enough to hoot and holler about.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Two Women (2025) Robert Stinner Two Women cannot overcome its fatally dated narrative foundations... [and] the result is dramatically muddled and thematically outmoded.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Deep Water (2026) Hugo Emmerzael Harlin plays the monster-movie bits straight... Deep Water is by no means a meme-ified faux-film like Sharknado, but it’s no Jaws or Deep Blue Sea either.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Hokum (2026) Chris Cassingham Flimsy, a little nonsensical, and not very challenging. In other words: hokum.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Omaha (2025) Chris Cassingham What sets Omaha apart, or perhaps what makes it a potential standard-bearer for the kind of American independent cinema that needs to die, is its placid insistence that those cinematic shorthands...are enough to make a movie sing.
Posted Apr 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Fuze (2025) Matt Lynch Fuze ultimately lands as a tight and fairly novel little thriller, playful and narratively kinetic.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Desert Warrior (2025) Joshua Polanski How many times have you seen hyenas zombified into furry and unstoppable carnivorous weapons of mass destruction? Perhaps there are still some new things under the sun.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Eagles of the Republic (2025) Lé Baltar Accrues more dramatic power when the political begins to encroach on the personal... Eagles of the Republic is striking in its cynicism, precisely because this cynicism doesn’t arrive out of the blue.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Amrum (2025) Padaí Ó Maolchalann A coming-of-age story in quite a classical style [with] Bohm’s straightforward compassion softening Akin’s edge.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) Ethan J. Rosenberg Stumbling, mumbling, and groaning to reach its audience, The Mummy’s assembled parts don’t cohere into anything satisfying. But one can’t deny that... [it] has blockbuster DNA in its guts and isn’t afraid to peel its skin off to show you.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
I Swear (2025) Daniel Allen However repetitive and conventional I Swear is, it at least possesses the kind of deep empathy necessary to elevate this beyond the purely manipulative.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Hamlet (2025) Lé Baltar It’s never easy to imagine and reimagine a material this hauntingly prescient and restlessly relevant. What a great relief it is, then, that Karia and Ahmed have confidently pumped new life into this familiar tragedy.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Balls Up (2026) Hugo Emmerzael Balls Up sits among the most hideous straight-to-streaming slob of our era.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Michael (2026) Hugo Emmerzael As close to generically evil musical biopic trash as you can get, [but] the moments where MJ is at peak performance are still capable of leaving one levitating in their seat.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Normal (2025) Matt Lynch Normal doesn’t really hit the heights of violence and shock of the new that the first Nobody offered, but it also doesn’t aim to. What it does deliver are simple pleasures that are apparent and frequent.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Mother Mary (2026) Andrew Dignan It’s possible (likely even) that Mother Mary has rocks in its skull, but Lowery still understands how to conjure wonder and hold an audience in a death grip.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Heads or Tails? (2025) Chris Cassingham Zoppi and di Righi are less interested in the granular political dimensions of their story... than they are in telling a good story and deconstructing the genre’s means of doing so.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Outcome (2026) Andrew Dignan Taken alongside how barndoor broad the film’s skewering of the industry at large is... and what you end up with is a mirthless, interminable apologia for "misunderstood" terrible people.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Thrash (2026) Jake Tropila What are the stats on good shark movies? Sadly, still just the one.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
City Wide Fever (2025) Daniel Gorman Honest-to-goodness guerrilla filmmaking, a true indie project that makes up for its lack of money with creativity, style, and an anything goes DIY ethos. Heaps’ film is a true gem.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Faces of Death (2026) Christian Craig Faces of Death spends so much time bumping into the walls of its own maze that the only shock it’s able to offer is its watering down of a snuff film into another piece of IP.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Leviticus (2026) Chris Cassingham "...quaint affirmations like Heated Rivalry and Heartstoppers seem increasingly like liberal fantasies...instead of true representations of our shared experience. It’s refreshing, then, when a film like Leviticus, arrives to throw us off-balance."
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Bushido (2024) Daniel Gorman Bushido is a flawed film, but much is saved in the way Shiraishi orchestrates things not unlike a Go player: the true nature of his strategy only becomes clear once all the pieces have been systematically laid out.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Lumière! The Adventure Continues (2024) Dhruv Goyal Lumière, Le Cinéma... unlike Frémaux’s Lumière!, is almost entirely indebted to the brilliance of its subject and not to arrangement (or narration).
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
To Hold a Mountain (2026) Zachary Goldkind Tutorov and Glomazić’s perspective is one that stifles the complications of patriarchal violence and geopolitical problematization... [rather than] elucidating them in their knotted discourses.
Posted Apr 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Dao (2026) Michael Sicinski Dao isn’t a film that wants us to lock in from start to finish. Instead, we are intended to ride it like a wave... In its very essence, Dao simply invites us to just be there.
Posted Apr 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Victor comme tout le monde (2026) Zach Lewis A subtle, charming work with humble aspirations, and it takes a certain kind of talent to make such a picture buoyant and lively.
Posted Apr 05, 2026  Edit critic review
We Are the Fruits of the Forest (2025) Anand Sudha [Shots] puncture the slightest glimmers of hope. Panh doesn’t see a future for the Bunong tribe in this economic landscape, so he relentlessly underscores the destruction, seldom letting their culture linger.
Posted Apr 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Tony Odyssey (2025) Morris Yang Tony Odyssey... declines to alight on some grand universal discovery. Its grandeur and beauty instead lie precisely in its manic and shimmering tapestry.
Posted Apr 05, 2026  Edit critic review
In-I In Motion (2025) Christian Craig In-I In Motion feels like a proof of life, an assertion that the performance indeed happened... But its execution will do little to inspire similar risks.
Posted Apr 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Two Pianos (2025) Daniel Gorman Two Pianos is a film endowed with the energy and unconventionality of life itself... If there is no room in modern cinephilia for Desplechin, then we have truly lost something.
Posted Apr 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Case 137 (2025) Chris Mello Zooming in... limits the film’s political dimensions, but if this gives it something of a ceiling, Case 137 remains an effective procedural with designs toward a structural social critique.
Posted Apr 05, 2026  Edit critic review
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