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Train Dreams
(2025)
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Dom Sinacola
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This film is teeming with life.
Posted Nov 14, 2025
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WTO/99
(2025)
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Charles Mudede
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Despite being composed entirely of news/found/archival footage (no talking heads, no voice over), the documentary WTO/99 nevertheless has the aspect of a dream.
Posted Nov 10, 2025
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Arco
(2025)
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Charles Mudede
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Ugo Bienvenu directs this film in such a way that this unusual robot/human relationship is so well established as to be uninteresting, it’s a part of the background.
Posted Nov 10, 2025
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All That's Left of You
(2025)
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Charles Mudede
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The film has a lot of sorrow and several poetic moments.
Posted Oct 22, 2025
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It Was Just an Accident
(2025)
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Charles Mudede
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This film, which provides no easy answers, is certainly one of Panahi’s greatest works.
Posted Oct 22, 2025
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Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5
(2025)
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Charles Mudede
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A humanizing portrait of a mythologically large 20th-century social commentator.
Posted Oct 22, 2025
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Firebreak
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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It’s overflowing with care for its subjects, and clear-eyed in showing why so much still needs to change.
Posted Sep 23, 2025
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Wolf Land
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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It’s simple yet effective, eschewing the typical conventions of documentaries that rely on talking-head interviews to immerse us in an urgent, unique story of one man fighting to create harmony in a world that seems hell-bent on mayhem.
Posted Sep 23, 2025
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Trash Baby
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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It’s a film that doesn’t shy away from pain, just as it stumbles into some gently poetic observations about life, with one critical closing conversation near the end perfectly tying it all together.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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Not One Drop of Blood
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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It’s a striking film that feels as if the documentary master Frederick Wiseman set his sights on the breathtaking rural landscapes of the PNW while also remaining distinctly its own work.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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Police Beat
(2005)
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Chase Hutchinson
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With each new encounter and reflection, we are taken further into a truly original film.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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Nobody 2
(2025)
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Dom Sinacola
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Nobody 2 has glimpses of impeccably tuned filmmaking, but nothing as thrilling as everything Tjahjanto’s made before.
Posted Aug 16, 2025
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Drowning Dry
(2024)
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Charles Mudede
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To intensify the experience of the modes (the casual-gradual and the intense-gradual), Dry Drowning, which is masterfully directed and performed, employs only diegetic music and naturalistic lighting and shot positions.
Posted Aug 16, 2025
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It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley
(2025)
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Charles Mudede
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It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley offers those who study human memory an excellent examination of what's called a "reminiscence bump."
Posted Aug 12, 2025
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Superman
(2025)
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Marcus Harrison Green
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It's fun, delightfully weird, and values-affirming (if your values are humanitarian).
Posted Jul 14, 2025
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Jurassic World Rebirth
(2025)
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Dom Sinacola
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Completely gone is the awe of Steven Spielberg’s 1993 Jurassic Park—gone is the cosmic terror and jubilation of seeing a dinosaur.
Posted Jul 03, 2025
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Dancing Queen in Hollywood
(2025)
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Charles Mudede
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The filming is ugly, and the acting is barely above what we find in Kenan & Kel.
Posted Jun 02, 2025
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The Gloria of Your Imagination
(2025)
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Lindsay Costello
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The Gloria of your Imagination is either a tough or a really easy sell, depending on who you are.
Posted Jun 02, 2025
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She's the He
(2025)
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Robin Edwards
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The quick-witted film with a majority trans cast checks off the high school movie tropes, including makeover scenes, a blooper reel, and raunchy jokes, while creating tender moments.
Posted May 28, 2025
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Khartoum
(2025)
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Brigid Kennedy
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It’s a collective effort with something to say about community, justice, and storytelling. Khartoum is special.
Posted May 28, 2025
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Viktor
(2024)
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Brigid Kennedy
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Viktor is at its best when Sarbil gets out of the way.
Posted May 28, 2025
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Unclickable
(2024)
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Vivian McCall
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For a movie about what’s supposedly one of the biggest criminal schemes of our age, it’s boring, and the soundtrack (mostly fingers rocking back and forth between two notes on a Casio keyboard) nearly drove me insane.
Posted May 28, 2025
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Cloud
(2024)
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Lindsay Costello
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The slow, calculated action-thriller communicates in soft steps and hushed tones.
Posted May 28, 2025
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Fly Me to the Moon
(2023)
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Michael McKinney
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The film is a slow meditation on growing up and how we forgive, forget, and forge new paths in light of broken dreams.
Posted May 28, 2025
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Jean Cocteau
(2024)
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Audrey Vann
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Jean Cocteau is a perfect example of a documentary with a captivating subject, but unfortunately, bland filmmaking.
Posted May 28, 2025
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Tinā
(2024)
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Bree McKenna
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The pacing is slow, but the film is carried by Mareta’s low-key intensity and culminates in a genuinely very moving final performance.
Posted May 28, 2025
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Blue Sun Palace
(2024)
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Sam Machkovech
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Tsang immediately proves herself a master of tight-space framing in her feature-length debut.
Posted May 28, 2025
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BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
(2025)
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Marcus Harrison Green
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This isn’t a movie. It’s an experience.
Posted May 28, 2025
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Sudden Outbursts of Emotions
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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The execution is far too narrow, and it’s oddly afraid to lay bare the body or the soul.
Posted May 28, 2025
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Heightened Scrutiny
(2025)
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Vivian McCall
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It’s not the most intimate profile—it couldn’t be, Strangio is a high-profile, media-trained lawyer—but Feder’s made a political document worth seeing.
Posted May 28, 2025
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The Balconettes
(2024)
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Julianne Bell
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The effect is something like an episode of Broad City as directed by Pedro Almodóvar. One thing’s for sure: You’ll never look at a rocking chair the same way again.
Posted May 28, 2025
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Sons
(2024)
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Chase Hutchinson
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Sons is the feel-bad film of the fest that, for all its bleak reflections about violence, punishment, and humanity, ends up saying surprisingly little.
Posted May 14, 2025
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Mongrels
(2024)
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Chase Hutchinson
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As one part fades into the next, hitting plenty of familiar coming-of-age beats, the portrait it tries to paint never quite comes into focus as beautifully as the visuals do.
Posted May 14, 2025
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U Are the Universe
(2024)
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Chase Hutchinson
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It’s a love story of sorts with plenty of mirth, but also a mournful meditation, ripping the air from your lungs when it counts.
Posted May 14, 2025
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The Shrouds
(2024)
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Robert Ham
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With a larger canvas, stretched over 10 hours, there’s every chance Cronenberg could have explored this dark and profound territory in more depth. But with only two skittish hours at his disposal, the director barely cracks the topsoil.
Posted Apr 25, 2025
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Sinners
(2025)
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HR Smith
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When the action comes, it moves fast. Not all of it makes sense, but it’s so large on the screen and beautifully shot that you go with it anyway. What starts out as a movie is, by the end, a haunting.
Posted Apr 25, 2025
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DIG! XX
(2024)
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Robert Ham
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Outside of an eye-roll-inducing intro from Dave Grohl, the fresh material is fantastic, adding extra layers of hilarity and melancholy to the tale.
Posted Jan 24, 2025
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
(1992)
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Chase Hutchinson
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There could be a sense of play in his craft, but Lynch knew there was also a crushing, overwhelming pain hidden in the remote landscapes.
Posted Jan 22, 2025
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Inferno
(1980)
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Lindsay Costello
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It's an eerie, somewhat inscrutable little slice of folklore.
Posted Dec 20, 2024
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Titane
(2021)
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Julianne Bell
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Ducournau stubbornly maintains empathy for her characters and manages to tell a story about the fluidity of identity, the fine line between artifice and authenticity, and the miracle of finding love and connection in the most unexpected places.
Posted Dec 20, 2024
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The Rapture
(1991)
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Audrey Vann
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Don’t get me wrong, this movie is not what I’d call a “smart” movie. However, director Michael Tolkin takes refreshing risks by questioning the line between Christianity and delusion.
Posted Dec 20, 2024
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Curtains
(1983)
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Audrey Vann
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In many ways, this film is a classic who-done-it slasher. However, there are absurd elements that simultaneously make no sense while making the seemingly straightforward film into something special.
Posted Dec 20, 2024
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Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
(1972)
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Lindsay Costello
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The film's lo-fi aesthetics and underground college project feel would be forgivable if it weren't so damn boring—it's a zombie film that takes forever to come to life.
Posted Dec 20, 2024
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Pearl
(2022)
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Julianne Bell
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My favorite part of the X films is their strong aesthetic vision, and Pearl is no exception—drawing on the appearance of early Technicolor and the melodrama of Douglas Sirk films, it's a delightfully campy pastiche.
Posted Dec 20, 2024
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PG: Psycho Goreman
(2020)
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Megan Seling
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It mocks many of the classic 1980s psychotronic B-movie tropes—exaggerated characters, extra splattery and creative kill scenes, and plot holes for days—but it's all coming from a place of love for the genre and delivered with a knowing wink.
Posted Dec 20, 2024
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The Return of Swamp Thing
(1989)
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Lindsay Costello
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One of the most precious gifts ever put to celluloid.
Posted Dec 20, 2024
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Happy Death Day 2U
(2019)
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Julianne Bell
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Unfortunately, the second film, which leans more sci-fi and comedy than horror, is not quite as sharp and punchy as the first... still, it’s an entertaining enough continuation of the franchise for fans of the first movie.
Posted Dec 20, 2024
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Boom: A Film About The Sonics
(2018)
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Dave Segal
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The spirit of BOOM is as righteous and undeniable as Gerry Roslie's howl.
Posted Dec 16, 2024
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Micro Budget
(2024)
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Charles Mudede
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We have been there and seen all of that. And yet, Micro Budget, is actually funny and, once in a while, reaches a region that can be called brilliant.
Posted Nov 25, 2024
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Morgiana
(1972)
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Lindsay Costello
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By keeping the story straightforward, it all becomes archetypal, a sort of dream state. Fantasy is possible here, and sometimes fantasy is dark and freaky. Just ask the Brothers Grimm.
Posted Oct 22, 2024
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