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H Is for Hawk
(2025)
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Janet Reinschmidt
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H is for Hawk is not a perfect film. It’s a little too long, repetitive, and meandering, ending abruptly without a satisfying or happy conclusion. However, it’s hard to dislike the film for those reasons as they perfectly echo the grieving process.
Posted Jan 26, 2026
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How to Start a Cult in 5-Easy Steps
(2025)
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Heidi Krull
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Despite its silly nature, much of what How to Start a Cult in 5-Easy Steps says is actually, genuinely important.
Posted Jan 26, 2026
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Shift
(2025)
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Kevin Fox Jr.
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SHIFT is the kind of film where the absurd makes sense, but its tightrope walk between comedy and thriller eventually leans full into the suspenseful category, with a touch of horror.
Posted Jan 26, 2026
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Love, Danielle
(2024)
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Daniel Pecoraro
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While the film incorporates Sidell’s own surgical history, and her own scars, Love, Danielle works best when it keeps the choices Danielle needs to make as a character, either with support from friends and family or going it alone, at the forefront.
Posted Jan 26, 2026
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Jess Saunders
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The film never feels like it overstays its welcome and leads to an over the top finale that had me sitting up in my seat, experiencing a whole range of emotions.
Posted Jan 18, 2026
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Dead Man's Wire
(2025)
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Ashley Morales
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Dead Man’s Wire kept me on the edge of my seat wondering about what happened next for these people—and how such a turbulent occurrence changed the broadcasting landscape forever.
Posted Jan 18, 2026
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Night Patrol
(2025)
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Avery Coffey
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With the subject matter of policing, militarizing Black neighborhoods, and gang relations, there’s certainly a lot to unpack. Night Patrol tried to do it all at once. I came for the vampires and stayed for the story’s ambition...
Posted Jan 18, 2026
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Anaconda
(2025)
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Chelsea Alexandra
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The four friends tumble through a parade of outlandish setbacks, including a literal giant anaconda, yet the film takes too long to find its rhythm and often fails to stick the landing with some of its bigger laugh moments.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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Kevin Fox Jr.
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Fire and Ash’s biggest structural flaw, however, is how much of it feels dramatically redundant to its immediate predecessor because of script messiness.
Posted Dec 21, 2025
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The Housemaid
(2025)
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Elijah Fischer
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Unfortunately, The Housemaid is both too much and not enough, and it leaves its moments of fun unable to outweigh its eyeroll worthy majority.
Posted Dec 21, 2025
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Is This Thing On?
(2025)
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Lindsey Romain
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...ultimately the film is a tonal oddball that, while a noteworthy exercise in craft, belays a storyteller who can’t quite condemn the myopic, aromantic worldview he’s bubbled himself within.
Posted Dec 21, 2025
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Crossing Delancey
(1988)
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Aaron Guttenplan
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Along with Hester Street, it positions Joan Micklin Silver as one of the most notable chroniclers in film of the American Jewish experience, particularly Jewish womanhood.
Posted Dec 21, 2025
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Little Trouble Girls
(2025)
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Andrea Schmidt
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Urška Djukić’s Little Trouble Girls, though marketed as a coming-of-age film, transcends the oftentimes trite and storytelling beats of this particular genre to craft one of the most deeply moving and visually stunning films of the year.
Posted Dec 14, 2025
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Dust Bunny
(2025)
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Billie Anderson
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Dust Bunny hinges on the pairing of Mads Mikkelsen and newcomer Sophie Sloan, and the two of them together are deliriously fun. M
Posted Dec 14, 2025
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The Mother, The Menacer, and Me
(2025)
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Matt Campbell
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The Mother, The Menacer, and Me is clearly a very personal film to its own creatives behind the lens. The screenplay is clever and engaging, enhanced by the performances of its company.
Posted Dec 14, 2025
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Manor of Darkness
(2025)
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Allie Lembo
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Manor of Darkness throws together great elements that never rise to more than the sum of their parts due to execution issues, but thanks to the actors and the time loop premise, I was still excited to see how this played out until the very end.
Posted Dec 14, 2025
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The Marbles
(2025)
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Fiona Underhill
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Ultimately, The Marbles is a very good introduction to the ongoing debate surrounding the Parthenon Sculptures in the British Museum, and it does give a sense that momentum is building towards their (perhaps inevitable?) return to Greece
Posted Dec 13, 2025
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100 Nights of Hero
(2025)
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MD Russell
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Overall, 100 Nights of Hero’s biggest fault is that it’s dull. What is a powerful, age-old story of the importance of writing and passing down stories feels stagnant. This could in part be due to its adaptation from a graphic novel to the screen.
Posted Dec 08, 2025
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Endless Cookie
(2025)
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Ashley Morales
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I found this film to be an ode to family, in one of the most colorful and funky animation styles I have ever seen.
Posted Dec 08, 2025
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Stockton to Table Rock
(2024)
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Samantha McLaren
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For fans of family dramas that tackle serious issues, Stockton to Table Rock offers an absorbing story and a level of polish far greater than its meager budget would suggest.
Posted Dec 08, 2025
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Mr. K
(2024)
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Rachel Shatto
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Mr. K is a fever dream of a film; narrative structure and logic are eschewed in favor of a series of vignettes that culminate in a truly — and perfectly — bizarre denouement.
Posted Dec 08, 2025
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Kombucha
(2025)
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Jill Vranken
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All these short, sharp shocks build up to make Kombucha into a biting satire of the horrors of corporate culture. And while not always effective, it’s nevertheless a greatly entertaining time that will put you off of kombucha for a while.
Posted Dec 08, 2025
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Love & Other Crimes
(2025)
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Sankeerthna Vedamtam
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One of the strengths of Love & Other Crimes is that this has happened to everyone: that awkward high school reunion, transformed into a friendship of proximity and shared situations of adulting.
Posted Dec 04, 2025
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Hamnet
(2025)
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Billie Anderson
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Watching Hamnet, much like watching Hamlet through Agnes’ eyes, feels like being granted permission to let go. The film holds you in its grief and its beauty, showing that surrender isn’t weakness
Posted Nov 30, 2025
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The Thing with Feathers
(2025)
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Jaylan Salah
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The Thing with Feathers is a tricky feature. It finds its strength at its moments of chaotic wild imagination, and loses its footing during the quieter, more realistic parts.
Posted Nov 30, 2025
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
(2025)
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Liz Wiest
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Wake Up Dead Man just might be Johnson’s strongest addition to the franchise yet, as his vision clearly shines the brightest the closer homage he pays to his patron saint, Agatha Christie.
Posted Nov 30, 2025
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You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine
(2025)
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Megan Robinson
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With You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine, those who loved John Prine the most are keeping his legacy alive in the wake of their grief, allowing a true artist to be rediscovered for generations to come.
Posted Nov 30, 2025
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Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter
(2025)
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Joe Carlough
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The vagueness of what happened, the glossing over of these important 15 or so years, left me wondering why they were omitted, and perhaps, more importantly, what the point of the documentary is.
Posted Nov 30, 2025
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Eternity
(2025)
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Nadine Whitney
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Eternity is a robustly entertaining philosophical rom com exploring the many forms of love and the courage required to choose one, forever.
Posted Nov 25, 2025
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Sentimental Value
(2025)
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Ashley Morales
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By the end of the film, we hope that these characters will learn to deal with their differences. That’s all any of us can hope for: to repair our relationships and build a better future.
Posted Nov 23, 2025
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The Session Man: Nicky Hopkins
(2023)
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Aaron Guttenplan
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Looking back at the notes I took while watching the film, a fair chunk is just a list of the many artists he played with and those who appeared in the documentary, as not much other information actually stuck out.
Posted Nov 23, 2025
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Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
(2024)
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Chelsea Alexandra
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Ian’s true voice, the one that mattered, has never been limited to her instrument. It lives in the courage to tell her story, to sing her truths, and to advocate for those without a platform.
Posted Nov 23, 2025
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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Megan Bailey
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A big problem here, exacerbated by the split between films and the year since the release of the first film, is that all of the callbacks that feel natural in Act 2 of the stage show have to be set up a second time in this film.
Posted Nov 23, 2025
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The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo
(2025)
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Janet Reinschmidt
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The biggest strengths of the film are its beautiful, poetic cinematography and storytelling, which include classic western genre elements and magical realism.
Posted Nov 23, 2025
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Arco
(2025)
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Tessa Swehla
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Arco doesn’t have any easy answers, but it does have optimism, hope that perhaps people like Arco and Iris will find a way together.
Posted Nov 23, 2025
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Sound of Falling
(2025)
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Del Winters
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The year and 1,400 faces taken to cast Sound of Falling are apparent on screen, because the sizable ensemble never betrays a single false note.
Posted Nov 23, 2025
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Rental Family
(2025)
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Jared Frank
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It’s hard to criticise a film for succeeding at what it sets out to do, and that presents such an enjoyably gentle tale. But it is hard not to wish for something more than pleasantness.
Posted Nov 23, 2025
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The Christmas Writer
(2025)
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Harper Rochel Goldman
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If you’re going to watch a bunch of cheesy Christmas movies this season, there’s no reason not to add The Christmas Writer to your watchlist.
Posted Nov 23, 2025
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American Skyjacker
(2025)
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Joe Carlough
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...the film shows the rise in air travel and, with it, the skyjacker phenomenon. But in trying to make the connection between these twinned trends, the film raises questions it does not attempt to answer.
Posted Nov 23, 2025
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Dracula
(2025)
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Joe Carlough
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...the overall effect of the film is exhaustion because of the way Jude wrings us out and forces us through story after story, hardly allowing us a moment to enjoy them before careening into another weird turn or absurdist take.
Posted Nov 23, 2025
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The Running Man
(2025)
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Sergio Valentino
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Edgar Wright’s The Running Man is messy, ambitious, and sometimes too clever for its own good, but it’s also pulsing with the energy of a filmmaker trying new things.
Posted Nov 16, 2025
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The Carpenter's Son
(2025)
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Heidi Krull
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The scenery and (some of) the acting in The Carpenter’s Son help it stumble across the finish line, making a pretty intriguing remake of Jesus’ early life. Maybe the next time a director chooses to take on a Bible story, it will be slightly less Cage-y.
Posted Nov 16, 2025
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Peter Hujar's Day
(2025)
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Kate Beach
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Artists today ask themselves the same questions and grapple with the same problems of affordability and creative fulfillment. I came away from Peter Hujar’s Day feeling inspired to fill my days with art, creativity, and at least two naps.
Posted Nov 16, 2025
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Sallywood
(2024)
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Kate Beach
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Kirkland’s eccentricities and insecurities are on full display, but she’s never the butt of the joke. When it leaves the cliches behind and focuses on the lovely intergenerational friendship at its core, Sallywood shines.
Posted Nov 16, 2025
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Murder at the Embassy
(2025)
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Sankeerthna Vedamtam
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Murder at the Embassy plods through its lukewarm revelations. The central mystery has neither legs nor an interesting follow-through, and its low-key nature suffers from slow pacing.
Posted Nov 16, 2025
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Die My Love
(2025)
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Tori Potenza
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The divisive reactions that Die My Love is already getting shows how uncomfortable we are dealing with all the beauty, and raw natural messiness that are an inherent part of the feminine experience.
Posted Nov 16, 2025
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Rebuilding
(2025)
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Emily Maesar
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Rebuilding is a stunning looking film, with cinematography by Alfonso Herrera Salcedo, and in its short runtime it gives a slow, but very deep, look at a man who has been ravaged by loss and grief and later brought back to life.
Posted Nov 16, 2025
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The Things You Kill
(2025)
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Colton Peregoy
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The Things You Kill works as a stone-cold upheaval of the conditions that make a man’s internal clock tick the way it does, a story of haunting specters and past traumas that continue to torment the present.
Posted Nov 16, 2025
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One of Those Days When Hemme Dies
(2024)
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Carmen Paddock
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One of Those Days When Hemme Dies is a modern parable of class and power, simply told and shot through with moments of cinematic beauty and human connection.
Posted Nov 16, 2025
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Scarlet
(2025)
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Revna Altiok
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The visuals in Scarlet are really striking, and the "eternity" scenes are breathtaking—a huge, glowing stretch of light and water that sticks with you. But the ambition doesn’t always work.
Posted Nov 16, 2025
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