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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
The Dreamer Cinderella (2025) Charles Johnston An egregiously unpolished film that still manages to glow with an otherworldly charm.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
Standout: The Ben Kjar Story (2025) Joel Copling Christensen’s documentary isn’t an overwhelming experience in terms of its form, but the subject and story are enough to carry it.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
In Cold Light (2025) Joseph Neff In Cold Light is ultimately a standard issue thriller, doing nothing to reinvent and too little to invigorate its genre.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
H Is for Hawk (2025) A.C. Koch H is for Hawk is a compelling memoir, written by a literary mind in a literary mode, and wouldn't seem to lend itself easily to adaptation to cinema. Maybe that’s why the film adaptation feels like only half of a movie.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Mercy (2026) Alan Zilberman Does Mercy really expect us to accept that an AI’s pursuit of justice – something it manifestly cannot care about, since it has no values – will lead it toward human personality traits?
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Killer Whale (2026) Joel Copling The incompetence on display in Killer Whale, an alleged thriller about surviving a potential orca attack, is occasionally breathtaking.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
A Useful Ghost (2025) Ria Dhull Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke analyzes the lines separating ghost and human in a skillful first feature.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Sound of Falling (2025) Holly Hazelwood In spite of the shadows that lurk in this farmstead, Sound of Falling could convince you to brave a dose of that darkness just to forge your own memories there.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Charlie the Wonderdog (2025) Joel Copling The movie thankfully isn’t too frantic nor frenetic, but it never recaptures the slight promise of its opening few minutes.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
All You Need Is Kill (2025) Bill Cooper Despite attempting to separate itself from Edge of Tomorrow, the anime film All You Need Is Kill is a weaker, forgettable comparison point to the 2014 sci-fi flick.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
A Private Life (2025) Daniel Pemberton Rebecca Zlotowski's deliciously cerebral — albeit uneven — Parisian mystery film is primarily anchored by Jodie Foster's performance.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Night Patrol (2025) Charles Johnston Exhilarating in its presentation, especially at the beginning, but steadily loses narrative drive due to a strange inability to ever commit to a main character.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) A.C. Koch It's a blood-soaked story with unexpected detours into humor, music, mysticism and the one thing that seems least likely to have survived this long: human warmth.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3.75/5
OBEX (2025) Josh Goller Balancing a clear appreciation for nostalgia and fantasy with an imaginative critique of escapism takes a nimble hand, and Birney is more than up to the task.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Sleepwalker (2026) Charles Johnston A hodgepodge collection of scenes dealing with a family tragedy through the use of a sleepwalking device that fails to ever make much sense, especially by the film’s denouement.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Oscar Shaw (2026) Joel Copling Oscar Shaw quickly devolves into both formula and routine.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Manon of the Spring (1986) David Harris Based on Marcel Pagnol’s 1962 two-part novel L’Eau des collines, Berri’s films are a gorgeous meditation on rural life, cruelty, fate, revenge and redemption.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Jean de Florette (1986) David Harris Based on Marcel Pagnol’s 1962 two-part novel L’Eau des collines, Berri’s films are a gorgeous meditation on rural life, cruelty, fate, revenge and redemption.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Young Mothers (2025) Erik Reeds Young Mothers is simply just an extension of the prior works by the Dardennes, most of them more revealing, more tense and less outwardly cinematic.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Magellan (2025) Ria Dhull Magellan is a well-crafted meditation on the insignificance of man and the emptiness of colonial conquest.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Alan Zilberman Dead Man’s Wire more than a portrayal of vintage eccentricity. It is a deeply political drama, using a strange historical, occasionally funny, incident to make sense of institutional rot that persists today.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
All That's Left of You (2025) Erik Reeds Palestinian-American director Cherien Dabis’ All That’s Left of You is compelling and surprisingly sturdy for a film of this length and subject matter, even if it’s not a very interesting one, all things considered.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Plague (2025) Alan Zilberman The Plague is not looking for your pity: it is an unblinking portrayal of bullying’s cascading effect, and how the line between victim and perpetrator is sometimes not so obvious.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Goodbye June (2025) Charles Johnston Kate Winslet’s assured directorial debut is a life-affirming holiday drama that is somehow almost completely saccharine-free.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Primate (2025) Tanner Gordon It’s a decent advertisement as to why one probably shouldn’t own a pet chimpanzee.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Cover-Up (2025) Joel Copling Both an interesting profile and a sobering reminder of how our political history continues to bleed into the present.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) Ria Dhull The first vignette of Father Mother Sister Brother works well, but the following stories are far inferior in their quality.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Dutchman (2025) Erik Reeds The Dutchman tries to be many things, but it never feels like anything more than a decent, unfocused Mamet ripoff.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Ria Dhull Park Chan-wook employs stylistic tricks to both success and failure in No Other Choice.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
We Bury the Dead (2024) Joel Copling Filmmaker Zak Hilditch gets caught up in the broader details without developing them in a particularly worthwhile way.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Song Sung Blue (2025) Tanner Gordon Both Jackman and Hudson are capable of carrying the dramatic weight of the story, but Song Sung Blue only goes so deep before reverting to playing the hits.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Alan Zilberman Safdie's film is less of a sports drama and more of an anxiety-fueled nightmare, a sustained effort to put the audience into the mental and physical space of a fast-talking operator who only tells the truth when it is convenient.
Posted Jan 05, 2026  Edit critic review
The Choral (2025) Joel Copling The Choral has been plotted within an inch of its life, complicating a fairly simple story with too much at the service of too little.
Posted Jan 05, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Alan Zilberman This kind of singular experience has impact and value, just an ephemeral one, and that phenomenon is more noticeable now than with the previous two movies. Fire and Ash is not the best Avatar, just the MOST Avatar.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Is This Thing On? (2025) Tanner Gordon The movie finds surprising comfort in the unexpected, allowing for its imperfect cast of characters to bounce off one another without the pressure of explosive drama.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Tanner Gordon Despite its harsh depictions of loss and persecution, Fastvold’s excellent, unusual biopic about this obscure religious figure is an aural and visual treat.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
The King of Color (2025) Holly Hazelwood The film’s subject-designed nature means it never confronts a question it should’ve had the guts to ask: why does one company get to own and profit off of our understanding of color itself?
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Tanner Gordon The film acts not just as a recreation, but as a testament to Hind Rajab's existence. Too often, those that die in a military assault simply become numbers or statistics, but they have names, and voices, too.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Atropia (2025) Alan Zilberman Inert and tedious, it is a dark comedy that lacks a firm sense of reality or history. No one who lived through the period it depicts will recognize it or think to themselves, "Wow, they really captured what it was like."
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Not Without Hope (2025) Joel Copling Not Without Hope is a sturdy account of an incredible and tragic event, whatever its shortcomings of perspective and scale.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Lone Samurai (2025) Joseph Neff A fitfully effective genre exercise that’s saved by compositional care and worthwhile, if not exceptional, action choreography.
Posted Dec 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Resurrection (2025) Ria Dhull Bi Gan’s dream-logic vignettes trace China’s path through the 20th century.
Posted Dec 15, 2025  Edit critic review
2.75/5
Dust Bunny (2025) Josh Goller Its tonal inconsistency occasionally works as an exercise in contrasts, but can also grate, particularly when this dark fairytale spills over into cacophonous gunfights, or when its gorgeous set design is undercut by occasionally janky CGI.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
La Grazia (2025) Daniel Pemberton Paolo Sorrentino and Toni Servillo offer up a return to form for the Italian director-actor duo, albeit one that leans too heavily on sentimental endings and vague melancholy.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
The Chronology of Water (2025) Joseph Neff Stewart’s choice to experiment formally and embrace an avant-garde aesthetic quickly shakes off any potential concerns that she's played it safe in her directorial debut.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Little Trouble Girls (2025) Ria Dhull With her careful storytelling, Urška Djukić dodges all cliché and crafts a delicate, intense portrait of her teenage protagonist.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Fackham Hall (2025) Alan Zilberman It is the kind of parody that is perfect for long-suffering spouses and significant others who have no choice but to watch Masterpiece Theater with their partners, and even longtime Downton devotees may be surprised by how much they chuckle along.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Man Finds Tape (2025) Tanner Gordon The narrative is simply too convenient and far-fetched to be either genuinely scary or compelling.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Hunting Season (2025) Joel Copling A solid Gibson gives a sturdy foundation to the narrative, but his younger co-stars are just as good.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Scream and Scream Again (1970) Josh Goller While Scream and Scream Again may not be the high point of any of these three cinematic titans’ careers, it’s still a schlocky good time.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
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