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Shell (2024) 63% 3.5/5 EDIT “The film takes some amusing jabs at our overreliance on technology while making a straightforward statement on women, aging, and outrageous beauty expectations. ” – Elements of Madness Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Bring Her Back (2025) 89% 4/5 EDIT “The Philippou brothers have crafted a deeply emotional, thought-provoking story around themes of grief and trauma, anchored by strong performances from Hawkins, as well as Barratt (Mary Poppins Returns) and Wong. ” – Elements of Madness Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) 66% EDIT “Angelo Badalamenti’s (Mulholland Drive; Blue Velvet) score highlights the surrealism, perfectly complements the themes of good and evil, and is especially effective during the darker moments.” – Elements of Madness Dec 29, 2025 Full Review The Breakfast Club (1985) 87% EDIT “Regardless of what generation you were born into, if you’re a teenager, you can find something relatable in the five teenage characters in Hughes’s film, which speaks to the film’s lasting legacy and its authenticity.” – Elements of Madness Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Coyotes (2025) 59% 3/5 EDIT “There are some pleasantly humorous performances in Coyotes. Long’s dry line delivery is very effective during the funny moments, and Allen is a riot to watch.” – Elements of Madness Dec 29, 2025 Full Review The Girl Who Cried Her Eyes Out (2024) 3/5 EDIT “Fans of independent horror should appreciate the authentic performances and appealing DIY-feel of the makeup and visual effects. This is a little indie ghost story that works.” – Elements of Madness Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Black Phone 2 (2025) 72% 4/5 EDIT “Black Phone 2 is well-written and features meaningful storytelling, sensational performances, (especially from Hawke, who is genuinely chilling), and magnificent makeup effects. This is a perfect example of a masterful sequel.” – Elements of Madness Dec 29, 2025 Full Review The Monkey (2025) 77% 4/5 EDIT “Perkins is not known for comedy, but The Monkey is brutally, laugh-out-loud funny and features some of the most unique deaths ever in a horror movie, and extreme blood and gore. It’s not for the faint of heart.” – Elements of Madness Jun 24, 2025 Full Review Breathing Happy (2022) 4.5/5 EDIT “Written, directed, and edited by Brady, Breathing Happy is a weird, wonderful, highly satisfying journey through grief, addiction, and recovery.” – Daily Dead Jun 23, 2025 Full Review Abigail Before Beatrice (2025) 3/5 EDIT “Olivia Taylor Dudley gives a remarkably sincere performance as Beatrice, a woman who is emotionally broken and scarred from her experience in the cult, and who is clearly suffering from PTSD. ” – Bloody Disgusting Jun 21, 2025 Full Review Queer (2024) 77% EDIT “Queer is a phantasmagoric exploration of Lee’s desperate quest for human connection and inner struggles with addiction and sexual identity anchored by a phenomenal performance from Daniel Craig.” – Elements of Madness May 31, 2025 Full Review May (2002) 70% EDIT “Lucky McKee’s May, a deeply personal, darkly comic meditation on loneliness, features themes of isolation and rejection, as well as a monster created from body parts, but the protagonist is female and can be seen as both the creator and the monster.” – Elements of Madness May 31, 2025 Full Review Anora (2024) 93% 4.5/5 EDIT “It’s clear early in Anora that Ani’s story probably won’t have a magical ending, but, like her, you want to believe that it might, thanks to Mikey Madison’s knockout performance as Ani.” – Elements of Madness May 9, 2025 Full Review The G (2023) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “Dale Dickey is fierce and fearless in her portrayal of Ann, an alcoholic with a questionable past, who genuinely loves her husband. Her performance feels authentic and drives The G.” – Bloody Disgusting Apr 1, 2025 Full Review House of Ashes (2025) 71% 4/5 EDIT “House of Ashes is a nightmarishly relevant commentary on the way society views women and the control that men try to maintain over them -- a thought-provoking examination of what it’s like to be a woman in America and a thrilling feature film debut.” – Bloody Disgusting Mar 28, 2025 Full Review Amadeus (1984) 90% 5/5 EDIT “Forman’s Amadeus is a breathtaking, divine tragedy. Amadeus is a beautifully exhilarating, outrageous feast for the eyes and ears. The 4K restoration perfectly preserves the gorgeous look and sound of the theatrical cut of a timeless masterpiece.” – Elements of Madness Feb 28, 2025 Full Review Everybody Dance (2022) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Everybody Dance succeeds in masterfully highlighting the fact that our disabilities do not define us.” – Elements of Madness Feb 28, 2025 Full Review The Room Next Door (2024) 80% 4.5/5 EDIT “The Room Next Door is a gorgeously constructed dialogue about a life well-lived, as well as being a poetic ode to life after death.” – Elements of Madness Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Ghost Game (2024) 60% 3.5/5 EDIT “Ghost Game is an effectively spooky haunted house movie which warns that it might not be the things that go bump in the night we should be afraid of; sometimes people are much scarier.” – Bloody Disgusting Jan 11, 2025 Full Review The Lonely Man with the Ghost Machine (2023) 4/5 EDIT “A remarkable one-man performance, an engaging narrative, and expert direction make The Lonely Man With the Ghost Machine a provocative meditation on isolation, loneliness, and grief.” – Bloody Disgusting Jan 11, 2025 Full Review Carnage for Christmas (2024) 90% 3/5 EDIT “While Carnage for Christmas would benefit from more compact storytelling and less artistic editing, the film does feature standout performances, especially from Moineau as Lola, and an original backstory based on a terrifying and distinctive urban legend.” – Bloody Disgusting Jan 11, 2025 Full Review The Buildout (2024) 85% 4/5 EDIT “The Buildout is a stunning, genre-bending odyssey into the unknown that skillfully blends themes of mysticism, grief, and the paranormal into a film where reality and the supernatural blur.” – Bloody Disgusting Jan 11, 2025 Full Review Cuckoo (2024) 79% 4/5 EDIT “Cuckoo features surreal, bonkers body horror and a peculiar creature, making it a fun watch. But it is also a chilling commentary on female bodily autonomy, forced birth, and misogyny, and is very relevant to our current sociopolitical environment.” – Elements of Madness Oct 22, 2024 Full Review Blue Velvet (1986) 91% EDIT “From the opening shots of blood red roses in front of a white picket fence below a blue sky to the Lynchian red curtains, Frederick Elmes’s legendary cinematography gives the film a dreamy ambiance and otherworldly quality.” – Elements of Madness Oct 22, 2024 Full Review Downtown Owl (2023) 47% 3.5/5 EDIT “Rabe and Linklater’s impressive directorial debut, Downtown Owl, makes the audience feel at home in the tiny town of Owl, North Dakota, and that’s pretty remarkable.” – Elements of Madness Apr 24, 2024 Full Review
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