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Chili Finger (2026) Frank Scheck With the exception of the central character played by Judy Greer, all the figures onscreen display the sort of eccentricities that are presumably meant to be either amusing or endearing but instead simply come across as odd.
Posted Mar 15, 2026  Edit critic review
The Sun Never Sets (2026) Angie Han Swanberg’s loose approach to storytelling, in which he outlines a plot and then lets his cast improvise the lines, is perhaps the movie’s greatest asset.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Kill Me (2026) Angie Han If its exploration of these ideas is ultimately too incomplete to feel fully satisfying, its performances are strong enough to draw attention throughout.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Anima (2026) Sheri Linden It’s as tried-and-true a story template as you can find, and one that writer-director Brian Tetsuro Ivie gently twists, to magnificent low-key effect, with a dash of icy sci-fi and a soulful retro yearning.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Wishful Thinking (2026) Angie Han It’s a goofy premise that would be done no favors by thinking about the rules too hard. So, wisely, Parkes does not really try. Instead, he applies it as a Charlie Kaufman-lite thought experiment focused on exactly two people.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
I Love Boosters (2026) Angie Han Watching it feels less like being transported into a different universe than putting on X-ray goggles to look at our own -- and finding, buried under all the frustration and despair, a joyful and unruly sense of hope.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Reminders of Him (2026) Frank Scheck Director Vanessa Caswill and co-screenwriters Lauren Levine and Hoover manage to effectively sweep you into the melodramatic proceedings... It helps that the characters are all sympathetic and appealingly played.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
My Wife Cries (2026) Jordan Mintzer Because of the way the director works, emotions tend to be more discussed than felt, although there’s something about Carla’s desperation that pierces through all the soberness.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Dust (2026) Leslie Felperin Dust icily exposes how character can evaporate in the crucible of greed, but the plodding pace makes this ethical exercise feel attenuated and flat by the time the climax rolls around.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
The Loneliest Man in Town (2026) Jordan Mintzer The filmmakers attempt to dramatize Cook’s life while he faces the perils of old age. The problem is that there’s not a whole lot of drama in this minimalist character study.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Flies (2026) David Rooney There’s too much depth of feeling for Moscas ever to feel contrived or cute. Eimbcke doesn’t shy away from sentimentality, but the emotional honesty and unfailingly light touch of his work prevent it from becoming saccharine.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Soumsoum, The Night of the Stars (2026) Jordan Mintzer Haroun’s austere style and languid pacing are strictly for the art house. But there are some memorable moments in this rich and strange desert tale.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Yo (Love is a Rebellious Bird) (2026) Leslie Felperin White’s jaunty editing ensures the proceedings roll merrily along, and yet the richness of detail in every frame makes this feel longer than its lean 71-minute running time, but not at all in a negative way.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
A Child of My Own (2026) Leslie Felperin Chilean director Maite Alberdi continues to blur, smudge and gleefully mess with the lines between fiction and fact in her latest, the by-turns highly comical and then suddenly moving A Child of My Own.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Project Hail Mary (2026) David Rooney Even if Project Hail Mary at times leans into the sentiment to an almost saccharine degree, the movie’s natural sweetness is disarming. And it’s impossible to imagine an actor more adept at striking that tricky balance than Gosling.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
War Machine (2026) Frank Scheck The film’s R rating is well-deserved thanks to the profusion of burnt and dismembered bodies on view in the alien machine’s wake. Unfortunately, the screenplay by Hughes and co-writer James Beaufort leaves much to be desired.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Lady (2026) Jourdain Searles As it is, the film excels at depicting the complexity of female friendship within a devastating and isolating economic landscape.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
THE BRIDE! (2026) David Rooney If any of this were amusing or suspenseful or frightening or tender or soulful or something, it wouldn’t be such a joyless slog. But the movie becomes like a shrill Bonnie and Clyde fever dream.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Hoppers (2026) David Rooney It shouldn’t all hang together as well as it does, but the movie’s freewheeling plotting is exhilarating, even more so when a frantic chase accelerates the action.
Posted Mar 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Scream 7 (2026) Frank Scheck There’s a rote quality to the proceedings that makes Scream 7 feel like a slog despite its high body count.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Paul McCartney: Man on the Run (2025) Sheri Linden There’s a lyrics-and-melody power to the interplay of sharp observations and visuals that dive deep into archival material -- a fitting dynamic for a film about someone with a preternatural gift for infectious tunes.
Posted Feb 25, 2026  Edit critic review
The Ballad of Judas Priest (2026) David Rooney One of the chief takeaways from fanboy co-directors Sam Dunn and Tom Morello’s entertaining legacy salute, The Ballad of Judas Priest, is how endearingly this canonical band comes across.
Posted Feb 25, 2026  Edit critic review
Wolfram (2025) David Rooney A four-chapter saga of escape, pursuit and survival, the film, for all its brutality, ultimately becomes less a lament for stolen lands and stolen children than a stirring account of endurance.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Salvation (2026) David Rooney This is a solidly acted drama with notably strong work from Cindoruk as the unlikely rabble-rouser. It’s also beautifully shot, with fluid camerawork from Ahmet Sesi̇gürgi̇l and Barış Aygen that snakes with grace and agility.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
The Postman (1994) David Hunter Romantic and humorous, bucolic and political, The Postman is a thoroughly Italian missive that features the brilliant final performance by the late Massimo Troisi.
Posted Feb 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Psycho Killer (2026) Frank Scheck The climax proves thoroughly ridiculous, but by that point you’ve given up on the film anyway.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
How to Make a Killing (2026) Frank Scheck Ultimately How to Make a Killing doesn’t have the courage of its convictions, or even its killings, giving it a blandness that’s surprising coming from the writer-director of the much sharper Emily the Criminal.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
The Dreadful (2026) Frank Scheck Harden is the most entertaining thing about The Dreadful, which aims for classic folk horror but mostly feels tedious.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
A New Dawn (2026) Leslie Felperin While Shinomiya’s visuals are admirably original, the script doesn’t have the emotional heft that helps the best Japanese cartoons crossover beyond niche fan bases. Still, it drifts along pleasantly enough
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
The Blood Countess (2026) David Rooney It’s a challenge to stay with it for the protracted two-hour duration. At least there’s Huppert in gloriously aloof form, plus the overripe lusciousness of Martin Gschlacht’s cinematography; with an edible and/or a cocktail or three, that might be enough.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
We Are All Strangers (2026) David Rooney A film in which nothing and everything happens. The movie now and then risks tipping into winsome cuteness, but Chen’s limpid naturalism helps sidestep potential clichés; its emotions are honest and earned.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Home Stories (2026) Leslie Felperin As an intentionally contrapuntal portrait of contemporary German identity with some of the many contradictions and complications one would expect, it just about works, although local audiences will naturally get the most out of it.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Nina Roza (2026) Jordan Mintzer It’s an intriguing set-up that takes a little time to find its way, but once it does Nina Roza turns into a moving meditation on estrangement, revealing what you give up by leaving home behind -- and what you gain by daring to finally return.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
I Can Only Imagine 2 (2026) Frank Scheck Laborious and dull, I Can Only Imagine 2 only comes to life in the comedic scenes featuring Ventimiglia, who buries his handsomeness in a buzz-cut, full beard, and Buddy Holly-style glasses to resemble Timmons.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) David Rooney It’s as if Luhrmann were conducting a séance, awakening Elvis from the afterlife with a raw vitality and outsize energy that are rare even among the living.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
A Prayer for the Dying (2026) Leslie Felperin "Prayer" will definitely make a name for, or at least cement the reputations of, many of the talents attached to it. That goes especially for writer-director Dara Van Dusen.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Animol (2026) David Rooney It’s grim and wrapped in despair much of the time but willing to make space for hope, understanding and forgiveness. Most of all it’s never banal, always involving, with fully convincing performances across the board.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Nightborn (2026) Jordan Mintzer Part of what makes Nightborn both stomach-churning and thought-provoking is how all the crazy stuff happening is just a slightly -- okay, substantially -- exaggerated version of the reality so many first-time parents face.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Dao (2026) Jordan Mintzer Gomis is a generous director when it comes to his massive ensemble cast, from which there’s rarely a false note. He’s also too indulgent, refusing to make compromises that would probably help the bigger picture come into focus.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Yellow Letters (2026) Jordan Mintzer If the plot in Yellow Letters doesn’t exactly move the needle, intense turns from both leads keep the drama engaging.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Sunny Dancer (2026) Leslie Felperin The easily spotted interludes where the young cast, all of them fast-ascending talents, were allowed to let rip, cut loose and improvise their pretty little hearts out cut the sweetness and create needed teenage texture.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
In A Whisper (2026) Jordan Mintzer In Bouzid’s eloquent vision of family ties, a past like Daly’s both haunts the present and informs it.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
GOAT (2026) Frank Scheck The hyperkinetic animation style, which bears no small similarity to Sony’s Spider-Verse hits, can be a bit relentless for adult viewers not steadily ingesting sugary substances. But the CGI images are undeniably dazzling and often very amusing.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Midwinter Break (2026) Caryn James There are no better actors than Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds to reveal the unspoken depths of such characters... But even these two can’t quite bring Midwinter Break to life, intelligent and thoughtful though its concept is.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Queen at Sea (2026) Leslie Felperin That commitment to both technical and emotional veracity pays dividends all round, creating a work that’s not exactly fun to watch but one that feels sincere, urgent and unflinchingly honest.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Rosebush Pruning (2026) David Rooney There’s no shortage of stylish craft here and much to enjoy in the performances, but ultimately, Rosebush Pruning is too glib to work, leaving only an acrid aftertaste.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Mouse (2026) David Rooney Even scenes that should be corny land with a light touch in an ultra-naturalistic movie warmed by the summer sun.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
At the Sea (2026) David Rooney Adams is the chief factor that makes At the Sea watchable, if not as compelling as it should be. She brings a fractured grace to Laura that gradually evolves into what looks like peaceful acceptance.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Rose (2026) David Rooney The title role in the austerely beautiful character study Rose is such a thrilling fit for Sandra Hüller that it becomes impossible to imagine any other actor nailing the part.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Everybody Digs Bill Evans (2026) David Rooney ...the movie’s artful direction, nimble structure, visual richness and impeccable performances make for something full-bodied, compelling and deeply affecting, its melancholy beauty lingering long after the end credits roll.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
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