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Normal (2025) Matt Lynch Normal doesn’t really hit the heights of violence and shock of the new that the first Nobody offered, but it also doesn’t aim to. What it does deliver are simple pleasures that are apparent and frequent.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Mother Mary (2026) Andrew Dignan It’s possible (likely even) that Mother Mary has rocks in its skull, but Lowery still understands how to conjure wonder and hold an audience in a death grip.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Heads or Tails? (2025) Chris Cassingham Zoppi and di Righi are less interested in the granular political dimensions of their story... than they are in telling a good story and deconstructing the genre’s means of doing so.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Outcome (2026) Andrew Dignan Taken alongside how barndoor broad the film’s skewering of the industry at large is... and what you end up with is a mirthless, interminable apologia for "misunderstood" terrible people.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Thrash (2026) Jake Tropila What are the stats on good shark movies? Sadly, still just the one.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
City Wide Fever (2025) Daniel Gorman Honest-to-goodness guerrilla filmmaking, a true indie project that makes up for its lack of money with creativity, style, and an anything goes DIY ethos. Heaps’ film is a true gem.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Faces of Death (2026) Christian Craig Faces of Death spends so much time bumping into the walls of its own maze that the only shock it’s able to offer is its watering down of a snuff film into another piece of IP.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Leviticus (2026) Chris Cassingham "...quaint affirmations like Heated Rivalry and Heartstoppers seem increasingly like liberal fantasies...instead of true representations of our shared experience. It’s refreshing, then, when a film like Leviticus, arrives to throw us off-balance."
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Bushido (2024) Daniel Gorman Bushido is a flawed film, but much is saved in the way Shiraishi orchestrates things not unlike a Go player: the true nature of his strategy only becomes clear once all the pieces have been systematically laid out.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Lumière! The Adventure Continues (2024) Dhruv Goyal Lumière, Le Cinéma... unlike Frémaux’s Lumière!, is almost entirely indebted to the brilliance of its subject and not to arrangement (or narration).
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
To Hold a Mountain (2026) Zachary Goldkind Tutorov and Glomazić’s perspective is one that stifles the complications of patriarchal violence and geopolitical problematization... [rather than] elucidating them in their knotted discourses.
Posted Apr 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Dao (2026) Michael Sicinski Dao isn’t a film that wants us to lock in from start to finish. Instead, we are intended to ride it like a wave... In its very essence, Dao simply invites us to just be there.
Posted Apr 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Victor comme tout le monde (2026) Zach Lewis A subtle, charming work with humble aspirations, and it takes a certain kind of talent to make such a picture buoyant and lively.
Posted Apr 05, 2026  Edit critic review
We Are the Fruits of the Forest (2025) Anand Sudha [Shots] puncture the slightest glimmers of hope. Panh doesn’t see a future for the Bunong tribe in this economic landscape, so he relentlessly underscores the destruction, seldom letting their culture linger.
Posted Apr 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Tony Odyssey (2025) Morris Yang Tony Odyssey... declines to alight on some grand universal discovery. Its grandeur and beauty instead lie precisely in its manic and shimmering tapestry.
Posted Apr 05, 2026  Edit critic review
In-I In Motion (2025) Christian Craig In-I In Motion feels like a proof of life, an assertion that the performance indeed happened... But its execution will do little to inspire similar risks.
Posted Apr 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Two Pianos (2025) Daniel Gorman Two Pianos is a film endowed with the energy and unconventionality of life itself... If there is no room in modern cinephilia for Desplechin, then we have truly lost something.
Posted Apr 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Case 137 (2025) Chris Mello Zooming in... limits the film’s political dimensions, but if this gives it something of a ceiling, Case 137 remains an effective procedural with designs toward a structural social critique.
Posted Apr 05, 2026  Edit critic review
At Work (2025) Daniel Gorman At Work offers a hard look at the reality of producing something of value in a culture that prefers quick, easy, and disposable.
Posted Apr 05, 2026  Edit critic review
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) Jefferson Everest Crawford Objectively impressive at a technical level, but why does it exist? The answer is quite simple: fan service... Nintendo sees this clearly and also sees through it, dollar signs in their eyes.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
The Drama (2026) Andrew Dignan Luxuriates in the clammy isolation of laying yourself metaphorically bare... Depending on your appreciation for "cringe," it’s as funny as it is excoriating.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
They Will Kill You (2026) Jake Tropila Sokolov is striving... to deliver the ultimate midnight movie crowd-pleaser, but in endeavoring to paint a portrait of "fun" on the screen, forgets to have any actual fun in the process.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Forbidden Fruits (2026) Jake Tropila Alloway’s film simply needed more bite and idiosyncrasy if it wanted to transcend the borrowed parts it has here cobbled together.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
A Body to Live In (2025) Robert Stinner A Body to Live In suffers from missing context and formal gaps... [but] Madsen has still crafted an accessible and engaging portrait of an artist and community leader.
Posted Mar 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) Andrew Dignan The whole thing feels nakedly pitched at the level of "we all like the same stuff, yeah?"
Posted Mar 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Marc by Sofia (2025) Christian Craig Marc by Sofia feels about as substantive and subversive as a brand deck, a well-rendered proof of concept of Jacobs’ next show.
Posted Mar 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Our Hero, Balthazar (2025) Christian Craig Our Hero, Balthazar finds its footing as a buddy comedy for the new American nightmare.
Posted Mar 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Late Shift (2025) Padaí Ó Maolchalann For a portrait of professional mundanity, [Late Shift] never feels more mundane than in its attempts to overcome said mundanity. But the conviction and compassion shine through regardless.
Posted Mar 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) Chris Mello The shortcomings of this sequel go beyond mere diminishing returns to indicate a lack of effort in its conception. Everything here is a pale imitation of something that wasn’t great to begin with.
Posted Mar 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Revelations of Divine Love (2025) Michael Sicinski [A] remarkable new film... With its slow pace and the deliberate diction of her performers, Golum has produced a film of classical rigor.
Posted Mar 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Project Hail Mary (2026) Matt Lynch A space epic that at its core is really just a humble flick about a movie star and his best pal the space rock.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
The Forbidden City (2025) Chris Mello [The Forbidden City] just peters out in a whimper of unrealized potential, its incredible beginning more than two hours in the rearview.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Tow (2025) Andrew Dignan Tow is attempting to tie a pretty bow around systemic inequities and late-stage capitalism... [it's] like if the Dardenne brothers attempted to make a sitcom.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
First Light (2025) Lé Baltar Rarely has a directorial debut looked as stately and confidently composed as First Light.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Ghost in the Machine (2026) Rory Doherty Ghost in the Machine’s sloppy craft undermines its swings for probing, valuable historiography.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026) Rory Doherty If Everybody to Kenmure Street is a film about community, it’s also about culpability, and Bustos Sierra traces Britain’s revived furor against immigrants to Scotland’s colonial history.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Exit 8 (2025) Sarp Sozdinler What makes Exit 8 more than a pattern-recognition exercise is how it troubles the line between what is real and what is not.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
undertone (2025) Ethan J. Rosenberg Some movies should remain playlists languishing on their directors’ Spotify accounts... Some, like undertone... just do too little to even justify their conception.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Reminders of Him (2026) Ethan J. Rosenberg Reminders of Him is not great, but it follows a great imperative: to reclaim middle America for the people who just want to see its landscape used as the background for a competent story told on-screen.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Dolly (2025) Christian Craig Cycling through trope after trope without examination brings with it the baggage of horror’s thorny history... Dolly knows which notes to play, but a cover band can only fill so many seats.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
War Machine (2026) Matt Lynch War Machine has collected bits and pieces and smashed them together without attempting to individuate itself at all... Eventually, this nothingburger isn’t even a tasty distraction.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Slanted (2025) Andrew Dignan [Hard] to reconcile its broadly comedic early scenes, as well as its stylistic elasticity... with its po-faced sincerity... Slanted feels caught between two worlds, but probably not in the way it intended.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Removal of the Eye (2024) Daniel Gorman The intermingling of the real with a fictional story creates a fascinating tension... It all adds up to a wonderful film, one that offers an unflinching portrait of raising a family in the 21st century.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
State of Fear (2026) Lé Baltar There’s a lot of action here, but there’s no real thrill; a lot of buildup, only to snuff it out altogether and arrive at a generic commentary.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
The Mortuary Assistant (2026) Daniel Gorman Kipp’s film probably should have stayed a computer game.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
An American Pastoral (2024) Robert Stinner By focusing on the minutiae of a local election... Edler reveals much more about the current state of political affairs in the United States than one could by attempting a long view. The result is stark and foreboding.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Blades of the Guardians (2026) Matt McCracken Yuen Woo-ping has delivered an uncomplicatedly excellent exercise in tentpole spectacle.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
For Worse (2025) Emily DuGranrut For Worse is clearly something of a personal project, but the film simply doesn’t attempt much more than to doggy paddle in the middlebrow waters of its own creation.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Twisted (2026) Jake Tropila Twisted is a bizarrely anemic affair, sure to disappoint gorehounds with the paucity of bloodshed on display.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
The Strangers: Chapter 3 (2026) Jake Pitre This concluding chapter seems destined to please almost no one other than those mystical, befuddling folks who wanted to know what makes the Strangers tick. And even then... it’s difficult to imagine much satisfaction from such a languid experience.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
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