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After Dreaming (2025) Chris Cassingham Haroutounian has captured a malaise so marrow-deep it alters consciousness.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
The History of Concrete (2026) Matt Lynch The History of Concrete is about so much more than just concrete. It might even be about everything... A tremendous ode to hope and kindness in the face of inevitable collapse.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
The School Duel (2024) Jake Tropila Puts an Orwellian spin on America’s gun epidemic... [but is] ultimately rendered redundant by representing the real-life horrors that continue to permeate the country today presentationally, without much interrogation.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Roommates (2026) Michael Scoular [Roommates] is [Levack's] most wide-ranging and tonally controlled film so far.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Apex (2026) Daniel Gorman Stick with Alone, or The River Wild, or Cliffhanger, or, hell, even Wrong Turn instead. There’s far more life in those life-or-death thrillers than you’ll find in Apex.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Over Your Dead Body (2026) Chris Mello In dropping the pretense of having something to say to instead seek cheap thrills for genre fans, Over Your Dead Body delivers enough to hoot and holler about.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Two Women (2025) Robert Stinner Two Women cannot overcome its fatally dated narrative foundations... [and] the result is dramatically muddled and thematically outmoded.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Deep Water (2026) Hugo Emmerzael Harlin plays the monster-movie bits straight... Deep Water is by no means a meme-ified faux-film like Sharknado, but it’s no Jaws or Deep Blue Sea either.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Hokum (2026) Chris Cassingham Flimsy, a little nonsensical, and not very challenging. In other words: hokum.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Omaha (2025) Chris Cassingham What sets Omaha apart, or perhaps what makes it a potential standard-bearer for the kind of American independent cinema that needs to die, is its placid insistence that those cinematic shorthands...are enough to make a movie sing.
Posted Apr 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Fuze (2025) Matt Lynch Fuze ultimately lands as a tight and fairly novel little thriller, playful and narratively kinetic.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Desert Warrior (2025) Joshua Polanski How many times have you seen hyenas zombified into furry and unstoppable carnivorous weapons of mass destruction? Perhaps there are still some new things under the sun.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Eagles of the Republic (2025) Lé Baltar Accrues more dramatic power when the political begins to encroach on the personal... Eagles of the Republic is striking in its cynicism, precisely because this cynicism doesn’t arrive out of the blue.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Amrum (2025) Padaí Ó Maolchalann A coming-of-age story in quite a classical style [with] Bohm’s straightforward compassion softening Akin’s edge.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) Ethan J. Rosenberg Stumbling, mumbling, and groaning to reach its audience, The Mummy’s assembled parts don’t cohere into anything satisfying. But one can’t deny that... [it] has blockbuster DNA in its guts and isn’t afraid to peel its skin off to show you.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
I Swear (2025) Daniel Allen However repetitive and conventional I Swear is, it at least possesses the kind of deep empathy necessary to elevate this beyond the purely manipulative.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Hamlet (2025) Lé Baltar It’s never easy to imagine and reimagine a material this hauntingly prescient and restlessly relevant. What a great relief it is, then, that Karia and Ahmed have confidently pumped new life into this familiar tragedy.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Balls Up (2026) Hugo Emmerzael Balls Up sits among the most hideous straight-to-streaming slob of our era.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Michael (2026) Hugo Emmerzael As close to generically evil musical biopic trash as you can get, [but] the moments where MJ is at peak performance are still capable of leaving one levitating in their seat.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
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
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