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3.75/5
Is God Is (2026) Alan Zilberman Aleshea Harris has a lot on her mind, and sees this tale of a vengeance as a means to explore the struggle young Black women must face in America.
Posted May 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Obsession (2025) Sparks Lowry Barker shows a healthy dose of real instinct that points toward a revitalized future for the genre, content not to reinvent the wheel but to hammer at his preoccupations with as much vigor as possible.
Posted May 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Neglected (2025) Joel Copling Neglected is shortsighted about its politics and frustratingly pedestrian in its genre aims.
Posted May 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Labyrinth (2025) Bill Cooper Kawamori’s first original feature has an intriguing idea and even a strong starting point. Somewhere along the way, though, it seems the film hit a dead end in its own ridiculously constructed maze and can’t find its way out.
Posted May 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Affection (2025) Alan Zilberman Affection has no style or craft. It is so bland, so bereft of specificity, that bored viewers have no choice but to figure out the twist before the filmmakers are ready to reveal it.
Posted May 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Carnal Knowledge (1971) David Harris In Carnal Knowledge, we are seeing the grotesque core of the male psyche, the embodiment of the minds that led women to stand up against them with the #MeToo movement.
Posted May 12, 2026  Edit critic review
The Python Hunt (2025) Tanner Gordon The Python Hunt uses its subject mostly as a means to an end, to arrive at answers that have little to do with snakes and much more to do with the human soul.
Posted May 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Silent Friend (2025) Ria Dhull The unequal vignettes within Silent Friend push the film off balance.
Posted May 11, 2026  Edit critic review
Blue Film (2025) Charles Johnston Blue Film is a low-budget chamber piece that fearlessly explores the transformative effects of shame and loneliness, with a raw style that harkens back to the independent films of the ‘90s.
Posted May 11, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Two Pianos (2025) Alan Zilberman Desplechin never makes it easy – not for his characters, not for his audience and certainly not for himself. A lot of other recent character dramas seem inert in comparison.
Posted May 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Sheep Detectives (2026) Tanner Gordon The Sheep Detectives manages to surprise with the amount of depth it grants to its central and existential exploration of mortality and confronting unhappy thoughts.
Posted May 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Degenerates (1967) Pat Padua A raw, painful demonstration of everything Andy Milligan was about, delivered in his inimitably shaggy style that however flawed revealed, despite the personal demons threatening to burn through every frame, a remarkable sense of control.
Posted May 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Last One for the Road (2025) Sparks Lowry The Last One for the Road juggles too many ideas for its own good, but rewards with a peculiar blend of textures, a magnificent score and Sergio Romano’s mustache.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Our Land (2025) Erik Reeds For fans of Lucrecia Martel, a detour from her usual narrative works may come as a surprise, but Our Land retains much of the social commentary of such films.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
RZA's One Spoon of Chocolate (2025) Sparks Lowry As unwieldy and rugged as its inspirations, One Spoon of Chocolate, the latest of the RZA’s directorial ventures, serves as an interesting curio if little more.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Animal Farm (2025) Tanner Gordon The poor quality of Animal Farm adaptations isn’t exactly new, but the effect of this one is much as Orwell described the life of his characters: miserable, laborious and short.
Posted May 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Hokum (2026) Ria Dhull Hokum is a neat, constrained horror feature and a perfect showcase of McCarthy’s strengths; however, like in his previous film Oddity, he doesn’t quite know how to nail the ending.
Posted May 01, 2026  Edit critic review
The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) A.C. Koch The Devil Wears Prada 2 packages some fresh twists within familiar story beats, just like fashion loops back on itself after a generation.
Posted May 01, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The School Duel (2024) Alan Zilberman The best dystopias make the audience wince, an off-kilter nightmare vision of where things are going. In that sense, The School Duel is a modest success: it accomplishes what it sets out to do. But it chooses the easiest targets, not the most meaningful.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
59/100
Eraserheads: Combo on the Run (2025) Pat Padua "There’s so much juicy material in Philippine politics that could have lent more oomph ... but the film may only truly work for the people who lived through it."
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
The Eclipse (1962) Pat Padua "Antonioni’s own modern aesthetic, the long takes, precise compositions, and tormented ennui that he draws out of his performers, especially Monica Vitti, suggest a way out of the existential crisis."
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
A Blind Bargain (2025) Joel Copling Whatever satirical point A Blind Bargain has to make is lost amid a noncommittal tone and a slightness that pervades every scene.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Broken Bird (2024) Josh Goller Broken Bird turns what could be an intimate character study into a contrived and lifeless spectacle.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Omaha (2025) Tanner Gordon By withholding context for the sake of mystery, Omaha ends up generating tension in a way that feels cheap, lacks complexity and diminishes the otherwise strong work both behind and in front of the camera.
Posted Apr 28, 2026  Edit critic review
I Swear (2025) Erik Reeds I Swear is suitably funny when it needs to be, tugs at the right heartstrings at opportune moments and exists as a document of John Davidson’s early struggles and motivations.
Posted Apr 28, 2026  Edit critic review
Fuze (2025) Ria Dhull David Mackenzie sabotages most of Fuze to craft a big final reveal that doesn’t land.
Posted Apr 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Over Your Dead Body (2026) Joel Copling When everything in Over Your Dead Body devolves from black satire into some surprisingly gory violence, it does so with a sense of nasty purpose.
Posted Apr 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Michael (2026) Jesse Doppelt You can take issue with the film for sanitizing Jackson’s life and repackaging the original art without making something new. Still you have to give it credit for making it look and sound this good.
Posted Apr 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) (2025) Ria Dhull With a great script that shows restraint through a series of well-edited vignettes, Vargas has made a surprising – and stellar – debut.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Eagles of the Republic (2025) Charles Johnston An entertaining and captivating thriller, Eagles of the Republic toys with hot-button issues but doesn’t dare go far enough. Even so, it scores a win for resistance cinema.
Posted Apr 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Amrum (2025) Daniel Pemberton A visually striking tale of a childhood spent during wartime and on the wrong side of history, hitting all the right emotional beats while still having something interesting to say.
Posted Apr 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Mārama (2025) Joel Copling Mārama's New Zealand ghost story is anchored by its infuriating and devastating context and Ariāna Osborne’s performance.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Wasteman (2025) Alan Zilberman The new British prison thriller Wasteman quickly establishes something vital about how convicts fight for whatever advantage and dignity they can.
Posted Apr 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Mile End Kicks (2025) Erik Reeds Mile End Kicks feels necessarily slight and indebted to an early 2010s optimism that feels all-too-familiar as a twee relic of a largely bygone era.
Posted Apr 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Normal (2025) Joel Copling Normal works as both a madcap comedy of errors and as a thriller.
Posted Apr 17, 2026  Edit critic review
PH-1 (2026) Ria Dhull There is not a single scene in PH-1 that justifies either its runtime or its micro budget.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
The Christophers (2025) David Harris As a rumination on art and what is valued as art, The Christophers is a fascinating look at the fickleness of taste, the cult of celebrity and how easy it is for dreams to be crushed.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Hamlet (2025) Alan Zilberman The clumsy quality of the last moments, and how they ultimately conclude with a lonely image of a dead Hamlet, succeeds where so many Hamlets often fail. You sense the desperate tragedy of it all.
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Exit 8 (2025) Tanner Gordon Some may be frustrated by Exit 8’s repetition, but others will find themselves eagerly anticipating whatever is around the next corner.
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2.75/5
Hunting Matthew Nichols (2024) Josh Goller Hunting Matthew Nichols blends scenes of found and archival footage with true-crime-style interviews, but despite artful attention to craft, everything here feels somewhat trite.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Faces of Death (2026) Tanner Gordon After nearly three years in distribution purgatory, writer-director Daniel Goldhaber’s revival of the Faces of Death franchise doesn’t seem sure about how to justify its own existence.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
The Yeti (2026) Sparks Lowry The Yeti is the work of capital-P Producers, a handsomely-mounted but too-slick genre throwback piece for the Alamo Drafthouse crowd.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Living the Land (2025) Erik Reeds While a bit too studied and restrained, Living the Land nevertheless hints at an emerging directorial talent in Huo Meng.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Blue Trail (2025) Ria Dhull Beautiful photography and a well-paced start are not enough to cover for this film’s weak final act.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
A Great Awakening (2026) Joel Copling The message overpowers everything else in A Great Awakening.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Stranger (2025) Charles Johnston An alluring adaptation and deeply engaging character study that recreates Algiers in the late ‘30s in exquisite detail.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Drama (2026) Joseph Neff The Drama may be a satisfying watch, but with an ending that’s a little familiar and a tad too tidy, the experience falls short of excellence.
Posted Apr 03, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
undertone (2025) Alan Zilberman What makes all this so effective is the overwhelming patience. With limited resources, it has no choice but to heighten the audience’s collective anticipatory anxiety.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Project Hail Mary (2026) Alan Zilberman All the tropes, whether they are mysterious planets or a dangerous spacewalk, are in service of something far simpler. At its core, Project Hail Mary is a buddy comedy.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Kontinental '25 (2025) Erik Reeds While Kontinental ‘25 doesn’t reach the highs of Radu Jude’s more deliberate masterworks, it avoids many pitfalls that a weaker director would fall into, and is surprisingly heartfelt in a way that Jude hasn’t been since Barbarians.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
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