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H Is for Hawk (2025) Daniel Gorman One wishes the film was willing to go further with [its] philosophical inquiry, embracing the metaphysical alongside the dully literal.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Mercy (2026) Matt Lynch Mercy is complete junk, there’s no way around it, but if you tune into the very specific wavelength and have a tolerance for wholesale idiocy, there’s at least a genuine experience to be had.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Ethan J. Rosenberg The Bone Temple starts 2026 off keeling over to the headwinds of mediocrity and appealing to the goodwill of an audience it evidently hates through snarky humor and winking condescension at the material.
Posted Jan 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Primate (2025) Christian Craig You bought the ticket to see a monkey go nuts, and Roberts’ only goal seems to be delivering on that promise... [and] maybe that’s okay. Every generation needs its Cujo.
Posted Jan 19, 2026  Edit critic review
We Bury the Dead (2024) Daniel Gorman We Bury the Dead is an extremely quiet, self-contained film, "small" in interesting ways, especially for this subgenre.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
People We Meet on Vacation (2026) Joshua Polanski These two are one Christmas setting away from stumbling onto a full Hallmark set.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Dust Bunny (2025) Jake Tropila Warts plague Dust Bunny and prevent a full-throated recommendation, [but] Fuller nonetheless concocts enough playfulness and aesthetic pomp along the way to leave such narrative shortcomings feeling mostly immaterial.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Cover-Up (2025) Clara Cuccaro Cover-Up succeeds as a portrait of a journalist shaped by a recently bygone era... [and] reminds viewers of what investigative journalism once demanded, and why those demands still matter.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Atropia (2025) Christian Craig Satire [eventually] stumbles into something closer to a dizzy romcom... and [the] will-they-won’t-they ultimately muddles Atropia’s already brittle perspectives.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Song Sung Blue (2025) Matt Lynch While Song Sung Blue might still hit a lot of the expected melodramatic notes, the distinct weirdness of the true story and Brewer’s genuine empathy for these human beings make this project a richer than anticipated experience.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
The Plague (2025) Morris Yang The symptoms of its titular malaise eventually cast an ambivalent shadow over the film, rendering its creeping metaphors somewhat ineffectual. But with or without bodily outrage, The Plague’s mental scarring is raw and palpable.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
All That's Left of You (2025) Robert Stinner Dabis does sometimes struggle to craft fully rounded characters within [the film's] vast scope... but [the director] impressively manages to accrue character detail and thematic nuance by tracing her film’s central family, patiently but with purpose.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Lupin the IIIrd: The Movie - The Immortal Bloodline (2025) Jake Tropila Newcomers will likely need to brush up on recent lore before heading in, but for those attuned to the previous trials and tribulations of the lovable master thief, a most enjoyable time will be in store.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) Ethan J. Rosenberg Jarmusch... [refuses] o do anything but point down at the underground from high atop his throne in the balcony... He’s right that counterculture is thriving, but he just doesn’t realize he’s on the other side of it.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Man Finds Tape (2025) Jake Tropila [Man Finds Tape] can’t quite pull off any new tricks, ultimately doing less with less as [the filmmakers] fail to make any meaningful impression with their work.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution (2025) Jake Tropila Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution is not out to bring in new fans of the franchise, but for those already on board, the compilation film is an extremely promising look at the pleasures to come.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Rosemead (2025) Morris Yang Rosemead stares rage and calamity in the face without quite backing down, turning an easy opportunity for sensationalism into a meditation on the very human cost of agony.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
The Great Flood (2025) Joshua Polanski A half-baked science fiction thriller
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Dylan Adamson Marty Mauser too frequently appears dwarfed by the elephantine budget surrounding him... Nevertheless, Marty Supreme frequently fires on all cylinders.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Andrew Dignan Like the religion it depicts... [The Testament of Ann Lee] is perhaps destined to inspire a small but devout following of those able to reconcile its incongruities and imperfections.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) Jake Tropila Given that this is the seventh installment in this franchise, Nelson offers a surprisingly and agreeably fresh take on the material.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Matt Lynch With all its overstuffed-ness, occasional loose ends, and its massive scale, [Cameron has] given his franchise its Return of the Jedi, for better and (very, very occasionally) worse.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
The Housemaid (2025) Andrew Dignan The Housemaid is never dull, but then neither is a flaming car on the side of the road. And there’s a similar morbid, gawking quality to observing this collection of artists valiantly trying to resuscitate the erotic thriller.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Ella McCay (2025) Chris Cassingham That Ella McCay not only exists in 2025, but succeeds in spite of its unfashionable elements, is its own kind of miracle.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Andrew Reichel While Dead Man’s Wire is hardly as minimal as Van Sant’s Tarr-influenced Death Trilogy titles from the 2000s, it’s a movie that keeps its scale appropriately mano a mano.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025) Robert Stinner Structural vagueness is a minor quibble... in a film marked by both sensitivity and boldness. Céspedes, with a distinctive point of view, holds the community of queer outsiders that populate his film with a loving yet unflinching gaze.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Europe's New Faces (2025) Dhruv Goyal [The film's style] comes across as respectful rather than a purely academic exercise... There’s a humility and humanity in that gesture that makes Europe’s New Faces an incredibly valuable film.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Chronology of Water (2025) Christian Craig It’s difficult to hold aesthetic grievances too dearly in the shadow of Imogen Poots’ Lidia. The... actor [is] at a career best, giving a muscled and searing performance.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Tale of Silyan (2025) Daniel Gorman The Tale of Silyan stands as a lovely document of one small glimmer of hope amongst the essential cruelty of modernity. Amongst the muck, there is still beauty in the world.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Winter in Sokcho (2024) Fran Kursztejn Like a can of SPAM, [Winter in Sokcho] contains a laundry list of ingredients without boasting the flavor of any one of them.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Under the Flags, the Sun (2025) Fran Kursztejn Juanjo Pereira’s film presents itself not only as an essential document of Paraguayan history, but of the 20th century at large.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
King Ivory (2024) Jake Tropila The finished product feeling a bit too derivative to go down entirely smoothly... [but] make no mistake: King Ivory is another winning, muscular B-picture from one of cinema’s underrated genre filmmakers.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
The Carpenter's Son (2025) Morris Yang A tendency to proselytize is at play, weaving the forbidding strands of gnosticism into a tapestry of heightened realism that just falls short of magical. Jesus Christ Superstar, this is not.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Bunny (2025) Jake Tropila Sweats to hit the 90-minute mark, and it all builds to a happy ending that is not in the least bit plausible, but as a directorial calling card, Bunny makes for an entertainingly good time with good company.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Rebuilding (2025) Emily DuGranrut A rebuilt script might have smoothed the whole into a better balance, but in its final form here, everything seems to sink into an unfortunate quicksand of sentimentality.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Cactus Pears (2025) Dhruv Goyal Kanawade’s complete lack of overt sentimentality — and dedicated commitment to structuring his film around the shifting tides of silence — makes this, and most every gesture of his film, feel deeply honest and, hence, tremendously moving.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2006) Ethan J. Rosenberg [Makes] a handful of crucial tweaks that elevate the drama and set Kill Bill apart as a work worthy of its (many) forebears... It’s impossible to conceive of Kill Bill as two movies anymore.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Oh. What. Fun. (2025) Robert Stinner There is no joy, no humor, no pathos to be found in Oh. What. Fun.; the best one can say for it is that it might inspire viewers to turn off the TV and spend time with their family.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Little Trouble Girls (2025) Daniel Allen Begins to move with less momentum and potency in its back end [but] on the whole it remains a sturdy and effective drama confidently assembled by the debuting Djukić.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) Joshua Bogatin [Road to Revenge] constantly feels as if it’s evoking something larger, some greater world or action set piece that could give meaning to it all, but that never quite materializes — and never really existed in the first place.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
La Grazia (2025) Andrew Dignan [It] helps that Sorrentino prevails as one of cinema’s preeminent stylists, and his ethos remains "what if this scene were actually the best scene of the film?" — an ethos that is applied across nearly every scene of [La Grazia].
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
100 Nights of Hero (2025) Robert Stinner Though there are some glimmers of aesthetic and narrative interest around the margins of 100 Nights of Hero, the film fails to add up to a cohesive or captivating whole.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Rental Family (2025) Morris Yang Rental Family keenly spotlights the mirth and frisson of human connection. For all the palatable cutesiness the film puts on frank display, it also earns it.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Ethan J. Rosenberg Johnson’s Twitter-brained hot takes... disintegrate under today’s inferno-bright blaze, and he lacks the courage to put the phone down and actually observe how digital communication has infected discourse.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Ethan J. Rosenberg Leagues ahead of 2017’s godawful abomination The Shape of Water, but it’s still genetically engineered to move us with the pyrotechnics del Toro uses to conceal his fundamental incompetence.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Eternity (2025) Morris Yang Eternity is strangely lacking in profundity... It’s also wantonly manipulative... [and] banks on a suspension both of disbelief and of depth.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Jake Tropila Now You See Me: Now You Don’t reaffirms the franchise’s status as being one of the most relentlessly idiotic, so obsessed with appearing impressive that it forgets to let the audience in on the fun.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
A Merry Little Ex-Mas (2025) Ayeen Forootan The bow on the box? How delightful it is to see Silverstone seem so reinvigorated, reconnecting with and redefining the warmth and wit that first made her a star three decades ago.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Left-Handed Girl (2025) Christian Craig Left-Handed Girl occasionally turns the dial too far in search of catharsis, but it is joyously sober toward the light that cracks through the struggle to make ends meet.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Arco (2025) Padaí Ó Maolchalann Bienvenu’s concept has imagination in spades, but his storytelling is somewhat lacking in it... It’s a race against time, and little else.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
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