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See You When I See You (2026) Kent M. Wilhelm See You When I See You is a miss for the generally consistent and solid Duplass, but it’s good to have him back in the director’s chair.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
Time and Water (2026) Dan Mecca Time and Water is framed as a time capsule to be discovered by whoever survives the great, tragic changes to come. Dosa is a master of tone in the documentary space.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Night Nurse (2026) John Fink A fascinating character study that can suggest an early Atom Egoyan film with notes of Michael Haneke.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Nuisance Bear  (2026) Oliver Weir Although there are many dramatic moments—the scenes of trucks and helicopters shooing bears out of town often look like high-speed chases—the main tone is one of socioecological reflection.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Buddy (2026) Caleb Hammond By and large, Buddy proves that high-concept short-form premises can be expanded to a feature format effectively, so long as the final film isn’t too winky and the stakes feel grounded.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Send Help (2026) Alistair Ryder Clearly salvaged by a talented filmmaker and two exceptional performers doing their best to elevate one-note, thinly sketched material.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Frank & Louis (2026) John Fink Frank & Louis falters by putting its characters in predictable, nuanceless boxes
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Shitheads (2026) Kent M. Wilhelm The steady two-hander never quite soars, but is elevated by an eclectic batch of supporting roles that supply bursts of energy in the right places.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026) Kent M. Wilhelm An immersive and masterfully rendered documentary that presents a living, breathing oral history of the Harlem Renaissance. Watching it feels like unearthing treasure.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Soul Patrol (2026) Dan Mecca J.M. Harper’s Soul Patrol is a compelling account of the Vietnam War’s first Black special operations team, told 50 years later.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Union County (2026) Jake Kring-Schreifels Instead of leaning into the histrionic hallmarks of the genre, Poulter opts for something more inward.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Moment (2026) Caleb Hammond With a cavalcade of hilarious bits, inspired cinematography, and a willingness to earnestly be about something, The Moment serves as a bold reinvention of the mockumentary genre that until now was content to stay put in pithy joke territory.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
I Want Your Sex (2026) Caleb Hammond A ridiculous sex-filled romp with entertaining stretches, [Araki's] first feature in 12 years often plays like a lecture from one sexually-liberated queer male to the reportedly sexless younger generation.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
The Oldest Person in the World (2026) Kent M. Wilhelm The concept of life and death is so ubiquitous, it feels impersonal––more objective than subjective. The Oldest Person in the World takes that theme and succeeds in presenting it from an individual perspective; a personal statement.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
American Doctor (2026) Dan Mecca It can make one feel crazy to watch American Doctor and be reminded that there are many, many people who could watch this same footage and convince themselves that these deaths are casualties of war.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
One in a Million (2026) Jordan Raup While the film’s episodic structure and, considering its sprawling canvas, relatively succinct runtime leave some details less explored, the filmmakers capture, with moving sensitivity, how perceived liberty doesn’t always mean true independence.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
The History of Concrete (2026) Caleb Hammond The History of Concrete is a joyous ride full of his now-trademark detours and persistent, underlying sadness at both the state of New York (his first and true love) and, on a secondary scale, the world at large.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
The Lake (2026) Jordan Raup While The Lake is effective in illuminating a vital issue with astounding, haunting cinematography from Ellis and DP Alex Takats, the film also functions as a sobering example of failed political leadership on a larger scale.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
All You Need Is Kill (2025) Eli Friedberg Visually, this is all a treat of a sort that won’t be hugely surprising to fans of classic Studio 4°C productions like Mind Game and Tekkonkinkreet.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Ethan Vestby Fiennes has headlined so much Oscar bait and Europudding over the decades that you forget his true joie de vivre as a performer, particularly for exquisite comic timing.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Train Dreams (2025) Mitchell Beaupre Train Dreams, through the experience of one simple, ordinary man, captures the significance of the very notion of human life.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Cloud (2024) Mitchell Beaupre Whether it’s the eerie atmosphere and introspective interrogation of 21st-century commerce and capitalism in Cloud’s first half, or the marked shift into a balls-to-the-wall action-thriller in the second, Kurosawa keeps you on the edge of your seat.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
The Secret Agent (2025) Mitchell Beaupre Mixing a sort of arthouse character study with searing socio-political drama and paranoia thriller, The Secret Agent reverberates in the mind for days after watching.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Sinners (2025) Mitchell Beaupre Calling Sinners a genre mashup doesn’t even really capture the degree to which it feels like Ryan Coogler has invented his own new genre; a fusion of period drama, social politics, character study, scintillating romance, and full-on nightmare fuel horror.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Misericordia (2024) Mitchell Beaupre Disarmingly funny, uniquely suspenseful, and captivatingly amorphous, Misericordia keeps you guessing from first frame to last.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
The Mastermind (2025) Mitchell Beaupre Kelly Reichardt’s ’70s Robert Altman picture: A hangdog tale of a man who simply cannot get out of his own way.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later (2025) Mitchell Beaupre As a visceral action thriller, the first half of the picture is remarkably tense, but it’s the second half where this becomes something really special.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
The Naked Gun (2025) Mitchell Beaupre One could recite any number of incredible zingers, or detail a bounty of "you need to see this to believe it" sequences, but I’ll simply leave you with this: "She had a bottom that would make a toilet beg for the brown."
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Mitchell Beaupre Takes a simple and powerful morality conflict—"What would you do if you believed you found the person responsible for your greatest trauma?"—and turns it into an absolute powder keg with so many combustible ideas and dilemmas.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Black Bag (2025) Mitchell Beaupre Agatha Christie meets John le Carré meets James Bond meets Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a spy thriller as concerned with how a marriage survives as it is with catastrophic meltdowns that would eviscerate tens of thousands of lives.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
The Plague (2025) Alistair Ryder When the characters are kept entirely separate from the adult world, the creeping paranoia is at its most affecting.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Conor O'Donnell With bittersweetness, Avatar: Fire and Ash closes a chapter on big filmmaking at a time when the maximalist spirit and cinematic frontiersmanship of James Cameron is in increasingly short supply.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Ella McCay (2025) Dan Mecca That this film––most likely [James L. Brooks'] final film––is optimistic about the little things that can still be done to help people might seem trite. It makes me sad that trite and hopeful occupy the same space these days.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Goodbye June (2025) Mitchell Beaupre Goodbye June’s biggest crime is simply that you won’t remember it within an hour of the credits finishing.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
100 Nights of Hero (2025) Alistair Ryder Feels less like a radical reimagining of a foundational work of literature than a post-Bridgerton romance that lazily riffs on the many tropes it initiated, with an overarching feminist message obvious to the point of being condescending to its audience.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
WTO/99 (2025) Dan Mecca One of the more fascinating elements of the documentary WTO/99, directed by Ian Bell, is that while it visually feels like a relic, the political observations feel as predictive as they are reflexive.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Vikram Murthi [Chalamet] powers Marty Supreme with the sheer strength of swagger, maximally projecting cocksure arrogance and palpable desperation (two trademarks of A-list celebrity, for what it’s worth) until they become almost indistinguishable.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Cutting Through Rocks (2025) Dan Mecca Despite all of these obstacles, Cutting Through Rocks, like its subject, is resilient. The film is ultimately the sum of small, powerful moments.
Posted Nov 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Arco (2025) Oliver Weir With his debut feature, Ugo Bienvenu puts a unique, thought-provoking twist on the solarpunk genre.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
The Last One for the Road (2025) Rory O'Connor It might slip into Alexander Payne territory at times––there are a few moments when the trio drive in contented silence––yet if Last One is Sossai’s Sideways, it’s a version with two Jacks and no Miles.
Posted Nov 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (2025) Alistair Ryder The most spectacular sequences here are when [Edgar Wright] allows himself to let loose, working towards his instincts rather than against them.
Posted Nov 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025) Luke Hicks Her death gives an urgency to her story that courses through the veins of Farsi’s investigative, eyes-wide-open documentary, making it a must-see to continue facing the reality of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Posted Nov 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) Michael Frank The directors aim to craft a world that emphasizes the wonder existing in every corner of the world. And that’s what makes Little Amélie so warm and tender.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Mistress Dispeller (2024) Devan Suber Because the filmmakers need to protect the privacy of those involved, there’s simply not much we can glean about the subjects’ personalities or histories, leaving them to come across like ciphers.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
The Currents (2025) Jourdain Searles Milagros Mumenthaler paints an intimate portrait of a woman trying to reckon with her fractured identity, trying not to fall into the grip of madness.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Below the Clouds (2025) Luke Hicks Guided by Rosi’s meditation and contemplative control, this is among the year’s best documentaries.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
The Love That Remains (2025) Luke Hicks The Love That Remains occupies the rarified air of a movie that has it all: heartwarming joy, heartwrenching pain, comedy that charms so invasively it gives chills of envy, meditation, action, all shapes and sizes of duration and composition.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Late Fame (2026) Leonardo Goi Late Fame isn’t a tribute to a bygone era but a much livelier chronicle of different generations clashing and mixing.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Left-Handed Girl (2025) Alistair Ryder A simple but striking drama about growing up in a family living paycheck-to-paycheck.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Scarlet (2025) Jourdain Searles Hosoda’s vision is a shockingly simplistic interpretation of a complicated, timeless, emotionally rich text.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
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