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3/4
Send Help (2026) Eli Friedberg This is an immensely effective tropical island-set chamber drama in which two characters see their gender and labor relations start to reverse in ways that eventually reveal surprising ambiguities.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Once a Thief (1991) Jake Cole Once a Thief is an outlier in Woo’s mature period, closer in spirit to his pre-breakthrough workman era making comedic genre pictures.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Bullet in the Head (1990) Jake Cole John Woo draws liberally from the trove of Vietnam War movies, staging epic battles in villages with overt cues to Apocalypse Now and mirroring The Deer Hunter’s structure of slow psychological unraveling among friends.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
The Moment (2026) Taylor Williams Farce and sincerity make more odd bedfellows across Aidan Zamiri’s meta mockumentary about Brat Summer.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
To Hold a Mountain (2026) Derek Smith The documentary ultimately reveals itself as a paean to female strength and resistance.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Islands (2025) Taylor Williams The film is most interesting when it's keyed to its main character's existential malaise across what plays out like a White Lotus B-plot.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Natchez (2025) Ross McIndoe With so many engaging voices on offer, Suzannah Herbert wisely chooses to let the locals tell the story rather than providing any explicit narration of her own.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
A Poet (2025) William Repass This finely shaded character study of a recalcitrant social pariah feels more than anything else like an existential parable.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
The History of Concrete (2026) Taylor Williams The odd and poignant The History of Concrete could be seen as a show of Buddhist acceptance on John Wilson's part of art's, and by extension life's, transience.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
The Oldest Person in the World (2026) Ross McIndoe Sam Green’s documentary has a knack for finding moments where we can feel the broad sweep of a supercentenarian lifespan, condensed down into a single, everyday occurrence.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Long Day's Journey Into Night (2025) Ross McIndoe In a work as emotionally devastating as this, the performances are everything.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
House Party (1990) Derek Smith There are elements here that are best left in the ’90s, but its joyful, nuanced portrait of Black teenage experience has aged quite nicely.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Mercy (2026) Eli Friedberg More than anything, this twisty dystopian thriller commits to the jittery anxiety of doomscrolling.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
.5/4
Return to Silent Hill (2026) Justin Clark Christophe Gans’s film does away with all the psychosexual nuance of Silent Hill 2.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
Mother of Flies (2025) Steven Nguyen Scaife Despite the affinity the Adams clan has displayed for spooky, goopy imagery in the past, Mother of Flies finds them reluctant to fully exercise those talents for fear of tipping their hand.
Posted Jan 18, 2026  Edit critic review
The Fall of Otrar (1991) Jake Cole The film often conveys an intense claustrophobia befitting the siege campaign that brought the walled city of Otrar to its knees.
Posted Jan 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Chronicle of the Years of Embers (1975) Jake Cole The 1975 film never loses sight of the immense cost of gaining one’s freedom.
Posted Jan 17, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025) Lauren Wissot The film starkly reveals the toll propaganda takes on everyday individuals and communities.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
The Rip (2026) Jake Cole The film's legible direction and steady escalation of tension makes for an enjoyably retro diversion.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Magnificent Seven (1960) Michael Nordine It’s no Seven Samurai, but The Magnificent Seven is worthy of the flag it waves.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
.5/4
Night Patrol (2025) Justin Clark Ryan Prows’s film comes across as just straight-up exploitative.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Rocco T. Thompson The film shrinks the scope of the earlier film down to a pinhole in what feels more like an incidental episode than a full-throated cinematic event in its own right.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
A Useful Ghost (2025) William Repass Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s defense of historical memory couldn’t be more timely.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Seeds (2025) Alexander Mooney Brittany Shyne’s lens is held rapt by the ramblings and insights of the elderly, but it springs to life when it’s turned toward the next generation, whose future is of utmost concern in light of the socioeconomic tensions documented by the film.
Posted Jan 11, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
Greenland 2: Migration (2026) Derek Smith Greenland 2 plays out as a much more generic thriller than its predecessor.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/4
My Neighbor Adolf (2022) Eli Friedberg The film at once wrings this premise for whimsical absurdism and slow-burn suspense, on each side vulgarizing the memory of the Holocaust.
Posted Jan 04, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Young Mothers (2025) Jake Cole Young Mothers is a welcome return to form for the Dardenne brothers, balancing social observation with character study.
Posted Jan 04, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
We Bury the Dead (2024) Ross McIndoe There’s a thoughtful zombie tale with its own distinctive personality lurking somewhere within We Bury the Dead, but it’s overridden by the film’s more generic elements, and that identity ultimately gets lost among the horde.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Anaconda (2025) Mark Hanson Regrettably, the one star of Anaconda that gets the shortest shrift is the most important one: the snake.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Scars of Dracula (1970) Budd Wilkins Roy Ward Baker’s Scars of Dracula marked a turning point in Hammer’s Dracula series.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
O.C. and Stiggs (1987) Budd Wilkins This is one of Robert Altman’s most doggedly intertextual films.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Christine (1983) Eric Henderson The film rewards both [Arnie] and us with some of the strongest pieces of straightforward commercial filmmaking of Carpenter’s career.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
The Housemaid (2025) Anzhe Zhang Just about the most surprising thing about The Housemaid is that Paul Feig, known primarily for directing comedies, didn’t have the foresight to nod to the material’s inherent camp value.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) Derek Smith Beyond the delightfully madcap, swashbuckling adventure taking full advantage of the animators’ creative dexterity, the film is dotted with the whacky humor and ingenious puns that fans of the series have some to expect.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Keith Uhlich The movie moves at a clip and looks like hundreds of millions of bucks have been spent, which isn’t the same thing as saying that its 3D visuals are particularly beautiful.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Plague (2025) Rocco T. Thompson The Plague is vividly, terrifyingly attuned to the way children create a social order that resists sensible adult intrusion and influence.
Posted Dec 14, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Song Sung Blue (2025) Derek Smith Song Sung Blue is content to pendulum-swing from triumph to tragedy and back again with all the self-control of a drunk driver.
Posted Dec 14, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Wes Greene Watching actors interact with an authentic recording of a child on the brink of death is less an invitation to audiences to wrestle with the horrors of war and more with the ethics of the film’s creative choices.
Posted Dec 14, 2025  Edit critic review
The Ladykillers (1955) Jake Cole The greatest joy remains the sight of Alec Guinness’s self-style Marcus constantly adapting on the fly as the gang’s ruse unravels.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) Jake Cole Crichton’s stellar heist caper presents Holland’s crime as a belated attempt at self-actualization by a man who’s lived his life to this point passively.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Salaam Bombay! (1988) Derek Smith Mira Nair brings a documentarian’s sensibility to her texturally rich narrative feature debut
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Ella McCay (2025) Taylor Williams As it follows its main character navigating political and personal waters, James L. Brook’s film finds itself poised between sincerity and artificiality.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) Jake Cole The depiction of Pee-wee making hostile environments a little kinder is all the more endearing for the goofy and slightly surreal flights of fancy that characterize the film.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Scarlet (2025) Jake Cole n paper, anime master Hosoda Mamoru’s Scarlet sounds positively electrifying.
Posted Dec 07, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Dust Bunny (2025) Ross McIndoe The film’s writing is the sort that begs you to find it cute and quirky, which makes it quite grating if you don’t.
Posted Dec 07, 2025  Edit critic review
The Abyss (1989) Tim Peters The Abyss is a big-budget, 1980s blockbuster, the plot of which was contorted in order to allow for elaborate set pieces and expensive, state-of-the-art special effects.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
The Abyss (1989) Jake Cole While The Abyss operates as a two-pronged thalassaphobic thriller and philosophical treatise on alien life, its driving force is the reconciliation between Lindsey and Bud as harrowing circumstances force them back together.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
A Private Life (2025) David Robb The film’s brisk pace does partly compensate for the essential banality of the central investigation.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
The House with Laughing Windows (1976) Derek Smith Pupi Avati’s criminally underseen giallo from 1976 brims with enigmatic dread.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Chronology of Water (2025) Justin Clark The beauty of Kristen Stewart’s focus is how she excavates the profound from the mundane.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
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