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Hollywood Boulevard (1976) Jerry Renshaw The plot may be skimpy, but Hollywood Boulevard is a trove of references for fans of Corman and AIP/New World movies in general.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Project Hail Mary (2026) Richard Whittaker That Gosling and an animated rock can have one of the most moving friendships in recent cinema may restore a little bit of that rarest of resources: hope.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Serling (2026) Joe Gross Our hero is simply the GOAT, the impeccably dressed man, cigarette in hand, introducing the possibility that something deeply strange is around every corner.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Capturing Bigfoot (2026) Richard Whittaker No study has ever really looked at its creation and the impact upon the people caught up in its wake quite like Capturing Bigfoot.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
I Love Boosters (2026) Joe Gross What’s most striking is Riley’s optimism; for a guy whose work can feel apocalyptic, he maintains an inspired belief in the power of community and the contradictory realities of life under extreme capitalism.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
My Brother's Killer (2026) Alejandra Martinez In the end, My Brother’s Killer tries to upend conventional true crime documentary storytelling, but only partially succeeds.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Baby/Girls (2026) Alejandra Martinez Baby/Girls is doing important work chronicling the girls’ lives, even if it could stand to dig deeper into its politics.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Phoenix Jones: The Rise and Fall of a Real Life Superhero (2026) Joe Gross Compelling-if-draggy... Phoenix Jones is an intermittently fascinating film: Fodor is a hell of a subject.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Erupcja (2025) Alejandra Martinez While the movie might have a playfully chaotic heart, it doesn’t always translate easily, making for an intriguing, if messy time at the movies.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Black Zombie (2026) Jessi Cape Black Zombie demands you reconsider both the horrors humans are capable of and the untold beauty of the living and the dead. It’s the rare documentary you want everyone you know to watch.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Pretty Lethal (2026) Marjorie Baumgarten Despite the constant mayhem, Pretty Lethal brings little that’s new to the dance floor.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Over Your Dead Body (2026) Dex Wesley Parra In its best stretches a rip-roaring thriller comedy with satisfying savagery, Over Your Dead Body is ultimately undone by the flat script.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Summer 2000: The X-Cetra Story (2026) Kimberley Jones Summer 2000 is deceptively light -- in the way it pulls into focus the four women’s different experiences, and how it articulates the magic in shared make-believe. So light, in fact, I felt my heart lift after 104 minutes in its company.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Forbidden Fruits (2026) Jessi Cape The script is sharp and genuinely hilarious, and it aces the Bechdel Test so thoroughly because it barely notices men exist, which is sort of the point.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Brian (2026) Marjorie Baumgarten Brian is unexpectedly heartfelt for a writer known for his stinging satire. Actor turned first-time director Will Ropp delivers the goods.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Sender (2026) Alejandra Martinez A harrowing film that understands the messiness and the terrifying nature of recovery from addiction. Perhaps the messiness is the point, even if it left me feeling a little empty.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Never After Dark (2026) Richard Whittaker It’s cold and coiled, like a snake in autumn, and its slow crawl towards a surprisingly violent end never seems less than earned or inevitable.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Crash Land (2026) Dex Wesley Parra Equal parts crass and touching, Crash Land skillfully delivers a succinct, 90-minute tragicomedy about grief, growing up, and finding meaning in the nothingness.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Seahorse (2026) Jessi Cape At its core, Seahorse is a father-daughter story, but it’s also about the way women hold each other up while men in their lives cause damage.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
undertone (2025) Richard Whittaker Undertone crawls under your skin and through your ears because of its eerie juxtaposition of sound and vision.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Pompei: Below the Clouds (2025) Kimberley Jones The effect is something like a series of living dioramas, with the viewer swiveling between tableaux and softly encouraged to make their own connections.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Hoppers (2026) Richard Whittaker You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll learn what a keystone species is.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
THE BRIDE! (2026) Richard Whittaker There are just too many moments in which Bale embraces melodrama and Buckley is chomping down on the scenery in a “more is simply more” fashion that simply highlights the film’s hastily stitched nature.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Sirāt (2025) Richard Whittaker Laxe’s villain is the arbitrary universe, inflicting unearned horrors on the wicked and the innocent equally. His version of As-Sirāt is not a bridge but a seesaw, primed to fling any that cross to their doom.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
A Poet (2025) Kimberley Jones Mesa Soto initially mines wry humor from Oscar’s sad-sackness; he and editor Ricardo Saravia are especially good at scene transitions that land like a punchline, and the marvelous Rios – small of stature and existentially slumped – cuts a comical figure.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
How to Make a Killing (2026) Richard Whittaker The chilling question that gives How to Make a Killing its delicious and unnerving frisson is how much of a Redfellow Becket really is.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Cold Storage (2026) Richard Whittaker Luckily, there’s just enough of those entertaining moments to mean it may well grow on you.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Pillion (2025) Richard Whittaker Onscreen, Lighton explores the imbalance between the two and gently leads the audience with sympathy and empathy to a perfect resolution that asks both to face their own dysfunction.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) James Scott Maybe I don’t love every element here in Verbinski and Robinson’s sci-fi treatise on putting down the damn phone, but ultimately? I’m glad they’re on humanity’s side.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) Richard Whittaker Johnson and McCarrol’s weird mix of Jackass, Portlandia, and Letterkenny is undented, and their willingness to skirt the rules of copyright to make a reference work is still intact. Yes, even after all these years, the joke’s still funny.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Wuthering Heights (2026) Richard Whittaker Yet again, the psychosexual classic tragedy has been turned into a well-crafted mass-market potboiler.
Posted Feb 11, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Whistle (2025) Richard Whittaker There’s even a couple of particularly gnarly methods of death where half the fun is working out exactly what is happening to the soon-to-be-departed.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Dracula (2025) Richard Whittaker Call it what it is: Luc Besson’s Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a copy of a copy.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Moment (2026) Richard Whittaker Making a movie about how annoyed you were that your label tried to force you to make a concert movie is just 103 minutes of Charli xcx relitigating an argument she already won, just with added product placement.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
OBEX (2025) Richard Whittaker Its gentleness and incremental increases in weirdness are a feature, not a bug.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Arco (2025) Richard Whittaker The result is something that feels like an adult’s idea of a sophisticated kids’ movie, its sense of adventure and imagination overruled and undercut by its tone of mature melancholy.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Send Help (2026) Richard Whittaker All so very much what one could expect from Raimi when he doesn’t have a strong studio hand keeping him in check. If you like his signature raisin soup, Send Help will be a gut buster. But it really seems like this latest batch has started to curdle.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
0/5
Mercy (2026) Richard Whittaker A premise that’s endlessly more reactionary than it seems to realize and delivered with such intellectual dishonesty and overwhelming incompetence that the ticking clock feels like a threat.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
In Cold Light (2025) Richard Whittaker In Cold Light is far better constructed and executed than its generic, straight-to-video title might imply, but it’s too monotonous – in the literal meaning of the word – to reach its aspirations or to really use its cast.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
H Is for Hawk (2025) Kimberley Jones On the subject of parental loss, a fairly universal experience, H Is for Hawk’s insights read familiar but never epiphanic. The goshawk is the revelation.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Richard Whittaker It’s a reminder that the constant smears against human rights organizations and aid agencies are vile slanders by people who want this to happen again and again and again.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Choral (2025) Richard Whittaker A reenvisioning of Elgar’s Catholic devotional that ties it in a profound and moving fashion to the time and place of The Choral, and the underlying idea that a little music, a little companionship, can’t stop the horror but it can provide a respite.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Kimberley Jones Bless its dear heart. I’m never gonna be mad at a movie for sticking its neck out.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Night Patrol (2025) Richard Whittaker Luckily, the plentiful and creative gore splatters enough blood and ichor to provide camouflage disguising those shortcomings. Or rather, enough to make Night Patrol entertaining – just not enough to completely obfuscate what it could have been.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
All You Need Is Kill (2025) Richard Whittaker The process of learning Darol’s nature and weaknesses becomes an act of healing for both, and a poignant metaphor for how we cannot avoid the future, much as we may try.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Richard Whittaker DaCosta finds new elements of pathos and even comedy, both centered around Fiennes’ tragicomic performance as the man closing the book on that last chapter of history.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Richard Whittaker It’s the other elements, about trust in the media and the loss of universally known and respected figures like Heckman, that seem especially underdeveloped, especially by comparison to the documentary.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Resurrection (2025) Richard Whittaker A cavalcade of strange images that take the language of cinema into his sleeping fantasies and bring it back more vibrant than ever.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
We Bury the Dead (2024) Richard Whittaker We Bury the Dead is already too slow and mournful to pass as popcorn entertainment, and it’s rarely quite thoughtful enough to bring its art house horror aspirations to life.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Plague (2025) Richard Whittaker Yet while Polinger has crafted a period piece, there’s a chilling immediacy to these struggles within what’s supposed to just be a fun time for the boys.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
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