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C+
The Blood Countess (2026) Ryan Lattanzio Make no mistake that “The Blood Countess” is gorgeous, but its cabinet of curiosities, like a subway peddler opening up his coat to the trinkets for sale therein, are mostly revealed to be a disappointment.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
We Are All Strangers (2026) Ryan Lattanzio Filmmaker Anthony Chen returns with a fifth feature that’s as emotionally generous as it is frothily melodramatic -- in ways that are addictively entertaining, frustrating, and ultimately too empathetic to shun.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
Rose (2026) Ryan Lattanzio Not since Sally Potter’s breakout feature “Orlando” has a film explored gender privilege so effectively through a historical lens and via a singularly astounding European actress.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
C
How to Make a Killing (2026) Kate Erbland This should be tighter, meaner, leaner, cutting. How to make a killing? Let’s worry about the smaller stuff first.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
C-
A New Dawn (2026) Blake Simons Shinomiya’s engagement with the impact of climate change, gentrification, and urban encroachment on our green world is admirable, but these themes are explored in a series of undeveloped “yes, and”-style non sequiturs, both visual and aural.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Sunny Dancer (2026) Christian Zilko Sunny Dancer might work better as a concept on paper than a movie onscreen. But there’s still no denying that, just like Patrick, Jaques has made a bleak subgenre of cinema a little bit sunnier.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
Midwinter Break (2026) Ryan Lattanzio The script here is too stiffly restrained to a fault to make much of an emotional impact, even as spending time with these actors historically is never without pleasures.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Queen at Sea (2026) Ryan Lattanzio Hammer spares no hard truths and offers no pat feelings with regard to how these people are bound to end up and what dementia ultimately does to them... But the actors help carry Hammer’s message -- and make it unforgettable.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Nina Roza (2026) Lé Baltar Like the eponymous gifted girl’s paintings, “Nina Roza” is subtly cosmic, compelling, and impressionistic. It powerfully commits to symbolic, time-shifting flourishes scattered throughout its swerving narrative. It is a work of legitimate form.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Everybody Digs Bill Evans (2026) Ben Croll It’s a riff, played with real skill, lingering on dissonance rather than release. How fitting.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
Mouse (2026) Kate Erbland While I’m not sure there’s yet a cult assembled around the deeply empathetic and uniquely humane cinema of O’Sullivan and Thompson (partners in both film and life), God willing, there will be after more audiences see the pair’s third effort.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
C
At the Sea (2026) David Katz Indeed, the title “At the Sea” solidly encompasses Laura’s existential state, but altering it to “all at sea” doubles as a harsh description on the film itself.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
Rosebush Pruning (2026) David Opie The cast are are all excellent in Karim Aïnouz's stilted domestic satire, but that's not enough to make it really prick. This ravishing yet perverse family affair doesn't know what it wants to be.
Posted Feb 16, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Cold Storage (2026) Alison Foreman As a February release, “Cold Storage” is an especially pleasant surprise. With Keery and Campbell making it an event worthy of theaters, the film occupies a shrinking middle ground as a mid-budget genre effort that isn’t chasing franchise immortality.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Crime 101 (2026) Ryan Lattanzio While Crime 101 runs like a remodeled version of earlier, better heist movies from the ’90s or early 2000s but with lesser parts, there’s enough gas in the tank and competence at the wheel to merit a spin.
Posted Feb 11, 2026  Edit critic review
C-
Dracula (2025) Alison Foreman The cast’s deliveries on Besson’s punchlines are strong, and editor Lucas Fabiani keeps up his end of the deal when it comes to timing. But not even Jones isn’t funny or magnetic enough to sustain attention without the support of real suspense and allure.
Posted Feb 10, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Wuthering Heights (2026) Kate Erbland As with all of Fennell’s films, boredom is never on offer. And yet, that doesn’t entirely dissipate the feeling that something is still missing here.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
B
The Muppet Show (2026) Christian Zilko The first priority is not to screw anything up. Rogen and company managed to achieve that, providing a nostalgic foundation that should give them as much runway as they want for future experimentation.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
To Hold a Mountain (2026) Christian Zilko It’s somewhat satisfying as both a travel documentary about a place few of us are likely to ever visit and a well-intentioned reminder that not everything needs to be modernized, but it doesn’t do much to transcend the sum of its parts.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
B
If I Go Will They Miss Me (2026) Vikram Murthi While trauma and toxic masculinity linger like specters in the background of “If I Go,” Thompson-Hernández permits them to merely contextualize rather than overwhelm the drama.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
The Weight (2026) Ryan Lattanzio It’s a treat to watch the muscular dynamics and savvy physical particulars of Hawke’s performance. Murphy, like Hawke, is great in a crisis, and “The Weight” could’ve been one without his sturdy, tough-lived performance.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
The Shitheads (2026) Richard Lawson By the end of the film, I was quite enjoying spending some time with them, despite wanting so badly to flee the scene at the beginning of the film. I suppose that, once in a while, an acquired taste proves all the more satisfying.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
The Musical (2026) David Ehrlich The bits that hit are well-supported, and the ones that don’t are so elegantly suffused into the movie’s cockeyed atmosphere that they tend not to leave any dead air in their wake.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
A
Time and Water (2026) Marya E. Gates A poetic musing on intergenerational memory, a whimsical, yet staunchly political elegy for the glaciers, and a mournful look at the Earth in all her majesty and mystery. . .and ow craven capitalism over the last several hundred years has destroyed her
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story (2026) Kate Erbland You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! And you’ll walk away with a hard-won appreciation for everything Maria Bamford is and hopes to be. Can we get a second part?
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Filipiñana (2026) David Ehrlich More than any other film that comes to mind, Rafael Manuel’s “Filipiñana” taps into something that I’ve always found inherently sinister about golf courses: Sprawling gardens of solipsism that invite players to compete against themselves.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
Take Me Home (2026) Wilson Chapman The ending doesn’t exactly erase what “Take Me Home” does well, but it does leave the film a much more dispiriting watch than it otherwise would have been, a promising drama that betrays it’s own best qualities.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
Iron Lung (2026) Alison Foreman “Iron Lung” is audacious and at times astonishingly boring. Still, it feels more enthusiastic and celebratory than many blockbuster adaptations built on safer math.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
When a Witness Recants (2026) Beandrea July At its best, the documentary functions as an act of deep listening and a step -- however incomplete -- toward reckoning with the harm done to three Black boys who deserved far better.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
A
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (2026) Beandrea July Turturro doesn’t rely on wardrobe or makeup to sell the character. Harry is a man of few words, so the performance hinges on his physical control and interiority. Turturro delivers both.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
D
In the Blink of an Eye (2026) David Ehrlich The only meaningful connection made over the course of the movie is the one between its actors, whose inability to salvage their material does more to braid them together than any of the machinations of Day’s script.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
See You When I See You (2026) Natalia Winkelman It’s so earnest, so vulnerable in its portrait of the disappointments and anxieties of young adulthood, that one tends to forgive its tweer flights of fancy.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) Christian Zilko Parenting isn’t for everyone, but the specificity of Roher’s story becomes universal when you realize that we all have to navigate the peaks and valleys of our own lives while also finding a way to think about the definitive topic of our era.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
The Friend's House Is Here (2026) David Ehrlich Even that digression is tender, lived-in, and relevant to the relationship between self-preservation and community under authoritarian rule, which this soft but subversive film convincingly brings together as one and the same.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Cookie Queens (2026) Lauren Wissot It’s an engaging if well-trodden setup, enhanced by the director’s slick but artful aesthetics.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Fing! (2026) Katie Rife Bell gives her all to this performance -- it just happens to be in the service of playing a horrible little girl.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
One in a Million (2026) David Ehrlich A raw and absorbing epic about “what comes after” -- one that naturally unfolds with all the joy, anguish, and unresolvable inner conflict of life itself.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
Chasing Summer (2026) Ryan Lattanzio Chasing Summer feels like a blandly reassuring teen comedy... Decker’s recent push toward what you might call “happier” movies was compelled by personal changes in her life; it feels, though, like a grunge rocker turning into a Top 40 pop star.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026) Christian Zilko The nuance and specificity that makes the film so interesting is also why it requires a decent knowledge base to appreciate -- this is about as far from an introduction to the Harlem Renaissance as you’ll find.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Closure (2026) David Ehrlich An ultra-immersive portrait of grief, acceptance, and the role that hope can play in delaying them both, “Closure” soon eschews any familiar genre tropes in favor of following Daniel as he obsessively charts the shores of the Vistula in search of answers.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
Send Help (2026) Alison Foreman Wickedly lovable with the potential to be timeless, “Send Help” is controlled delirium microwaved on high heat. At 66, Raimi reminds us who he was when he made horror-comedy history with “Evil Dead II,” and more importantly, why his voice still matters.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026) Christian Zilko 25 years after "Wet Hot American Summer" premiered at Sundance, it's a relief to know that Wain and Marino are still at the absolute top of their game.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie (2026) Kate Erbland The revulsion that we feel toward this attack is, of course, baked right into the film, but Gibney often dances away from making it feel like a symptom of something wider.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
BURN (2026) Blake Simons Nagahisa imbues these characters with such earthy, lived-in existences that it’s frustrating to see the back half of his film hit grim and well-worn trauma tropes... irrespective of the richness of the earlier character writing.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
undertone (2025) Christian Zilko “Undertone” seems destined to live on as a film school case study... Its legacy as an actual film is much less clear. But even so, the creativity with which Tuason approached it is enough to leave this critic excited to see what he does next.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Union County (2026) Katie Rife Union County doesn’t completely bypass addiction-drama clichés. But its detailed, humanistic approach successfully creates a realistic world that supports its muted storytelling.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Frank & Louis (2026) David Ehrlich It’s the Ship of Theseus paradox in human form, its discrete parts held together by a quietly stirring drama that finds dignity in decay, and grace in the memory of men who the rest of society would sooner forget.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Wicker (2026) Ryan Lattanzio “Wicker” threatens to feel largely like a logline writ into something grander (i.e., a short story with a wild idea stretched into a feature), but these actors are irresistibly weird and wonderful, as only they could be.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
C-
The Gallerist (2026) Ryan Lattanzio One of those movies where the actors are having all the fun, clearly enamored with the chance at working together, while they forget to let the audience in on the entertainment.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Bedford Park (2026) Alison Foreman Anchored firmly in the Garden State despite its misleading, Bronx-based title, “Bedford Park” captures distinctly East Coast textures to create a lived-in world that ultimately feels deeper in its symbolic meaning than the two leads’ human emotion.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
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