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A Blind Bargain (2025) Joel Copling Whatever satirical point A Blind Bargain has to make is lost amid a noncommittal tone and a slightness that pervades every scene.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Broken Bird (2024) Josh Goller Broken Bird turns what could be an intimate character study into a contrived and lifeless spectacle.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Omaha (2025) Tanner Gordon By withholding context for the sake of mystery, Omaha ends up generating tension in a way that feels cheap, lacks complexity and diminishes the otherwise strong work both behind and in front of the camera.
Posted Apr 28, 2026  Edit critic review
I Swear (2025) Erik Reeds I Swear is suitably funny when it needs to be, tugs at the right heartstrings at opportune moments and exists as a document of John Davidson’s early struggles and motivations.
Posted Apr 28, 2026  Edit critic review
Fuze (2025) Ria Dhull David Mackenzie sabotages most of Fuze to craft a big final reveal that doesn’t land.
Posted Apr 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Over Your Dead Body (2026) Joel Copling When everything in Over Your Dead Body devolves from black satire into some surprisingly gory violence, it does so with a sense of nasty purpose.
Posted Apr 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Michael (2026) Jesse Doppelt You can take issue with the film for sanitizing Jackson’s life and repackaging the original art without making something new. Still you have to give it credit for making it look and sound this good.
Posted Apr 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) (2025) Ria Dhull With a great script that shows restraint through a series of well-edited vignettes, Vargas has made a surprising – and stellar – debut.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Eagles of the Republic (2025) Charles Johnston An entertaining and captivating thriller, Eagles of the Republic toys with hot-button issues but doesn’t dare go far enough. Even so, it scores a win for resistance cinema.
Posted Apr 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Amrum (2025) Daniel Pemberton A visually striking tale of a childhood spent during wartime and on the wrong side of history, hitting all the right emotional beats while still having something interesting to say.
Posted Apr 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Mārama (2025) Joel Copling Mārama's New Zealand ghost story is anchored by its infuriating and devastating context and Ariāna Osborne’s performance.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Wasteman (2025) Alan Zilberman The new British prison thriller Wasteman quickly establishes something vital about how convicts fight for whatever advantage and dignity they can.
Posted Apr 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Mile End Kicks (2025) Erik Reeds Mile End Kicks feels necessarily slight and indebted to an early 2010s optimism that feels all-too-familiar as a twee relic of a largely bygone era.
Posted Apr 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Normal (2025) Joel Copling Normal works as both a madcap comedy of errors and as a thriller.
Posted Apr 17, 2026  Edit critic review
PH-1 (2026) Ria Dhull There is not a single scene in PH-1 that justifies either its runtime or its micro budget.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
The Christophers (2025) David Harris As a rumination on art and what is valued as art, The Christophers is a fascinating look at the fickleness of taste, the cult of celebrity and how easy it is for dreams to be crushed.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Hamlet (2025) Alan Zilberman The clumsy quality of the last moments, and how they ultimately conclude with a lonely image of a dead Hamlet, succeeds where so many Hamlets often fail. You sense the desperate tragedy of it all.
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Exit 8 (2025) Tanner Gordon Some may be frustrated by Exit 8’s repetition, but others will find themselves eagerly anticipating whatever is around the next corner.
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2.75/5
Hunting Matthew Nichols (2024) Josh Goller Hunting Matthew Nichols blends scenes of found and archival footage with true-crime-style interviews, but despite artful attention to craft, everything here feels somewhat trite.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Faces of Death (2026) Tanner Gordon After nearly three years in distribution purgatory, writer-director Daniel Goldhaber’s revival of the Faces of Death franchise doesn’t seem sure about how to justify its own existence.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
The Yeti (2026) Sparks Lowry The Yeti is the work of capital-P Producers, a handsomely-mounted but too-slick genre throwback piece for the Alamo Drafthouse crowd.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Living the Land (2025) Erik Reeds While a bit too studied and restrained, Living the Land nevertheless hints at an emerging directorial talent in Huo Meng.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Blue Trail (2025) Ria Dhull Beautiful photography and a well-paced start are not enough to cover for this film’s weak final act.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
A Great Awakening (2026) Joel Copling The message overpowers everything else in A Great Awakening.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Stranger (2025) Charles Johnston An alluring adaptation and deeply engaging character study that recreates Algiers in the late ‘30s in exquisite detail.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Drama (2026) Joseph Neff The Drama may be a satisfying watch, but with an ending that’s a little familiar and a tad too tidy, the experience falls short of excellence.
Posted Apr 03, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
undertone (2025) Alan Zilberman What makes all this so effective is the overwhelming patience. With limited resources, it has no choice but to heighten the audience’s collective anticipatory anxiety.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Project Hail Mary (2026) Alan Zilberman All the tropes, whether they are mysterious planets or a dangerous spacewalk, are in service of something far simpler. At its core, Project Hail Mary is a buddy comedy.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Kontinental '25 (2025) Erik Reeds While Kontinental ‘25 doesn’t reach the highs of Radu Jude’s more deliberate masterworks, it avoids many pitfalls that a weaker director would fall into, and is surprisingly heartfelt in a way that Jude hasn’t been since Barbarians.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Yes (2025) Ria Dhull Lapid’s Yes is an angry outburst of a film.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Our Hero, Balthazar (2025) Joel Copling If a movie can recreate the experience of doomscrolling, then this one has done it.
Posted Mar 31, 2026  Edit critic review
Forbidden Fruits (2026) Joel Copling Adapting a stage play written by the film’s co-writer, the main issue with Meredith Alloway’s debut feature is thinking it’s simply too cool to care.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
She Dances (2025) Bill Cooper Despite some minor setbacks, She Dances is an enjoyable, affecting film that will connect with audiences through its relatable, universal themes.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Alpha (2025) Tanner Gordon Ducournau is simply too thoughtful and striking a craftsman to produce an unengaging film, but her script struggles to reconcile its intellectual focus with the demands of a coherent narrative.
Posted Mar 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Palestine '36 (2025) Erik Reeds Jacir succeeds where less passionate directors would have faltered, and the making of a work like this is, in some ways, a small miracle.
Posted Mar 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Vampires of the Velvet Lounge (2026) Charles Johnston This loathsome film is as if a Spirit Halloween store was a movie and barely qualifies as schlock entertainment.
Posted Mar 25, 2026  Edit critic review
Miroirs No. 3 (2025) Joseph Neff Miroirs No. 3 is a minor film, but this is deliberate; it gathers weight through the accumulation of small pleasures.
Posted Mar 25, 2026  Edit critic review
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) Josh Goller Yorgos Lanthimos' spare, absurd and tragic film explores the fragility of human constructs and the illusion of control through characters who suppress emotion until they crack and the world crumbles.
Posted Mar 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Touch Me (2025) Bill Cooper Though Touch Me’s concept is intriguing and potentially hard-hitting, the film is distracted from both a visual and storytelling perspective.
Posted Mar 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Late Shift (2025) Daniel Pemberton Late Shift is a rigorous and anxiety-inducing portrait of a nurse's grueling shift at an understaffed Swiss hospital, with unflinching depictions of the everyday calculus of hospital labor amid a failing system.
Posted Mar 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Two Prosecutors (2025) Ria Dhull Sergei Loznitsa’s return to fiction is a masterclass in technique.
Posted Mar 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Tow (2025) A.C. Koch While Tow is a compelling lesson in economic precarity in the teeth of crushing capitalism, it's less absorbing as a piece of cinema.
Posted Mar 23, 2026  Edit critic review
The Pout-Pout Fish (2026) Joel Copling The Pout-Pout Fish's simply defined characters inhabit a basic storyline, executed with equally basic computer animation.
Posted Mar 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Bushido (2024) Daniel Pemberton Shiraishi's film is a lovingly crafted, albeit inconsistent, samurai drama that fans of the genre will enjoy.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Scared to Death (2024) Josh Goller There might be the makings of a guilty pleasure buried deep within this material, but unfortunately, that’s something Scared to Death is nowhere near capable of conjuring.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Seasons of Glory (2024) Joseph Neff Jaafar’s film invites obvious comparisons to Hoop Dreams, although it is ultimately less impressive in its hybrid of competently executed documentary conventionalities.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Jimpa (2025) Sparks Lowry Jimpa functions as a chance to recapture memory, paint over experiences both possessed and eluded by director Sophie Hyde, but she seems to have no idea what to do with those experiences.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
The Dreadful (2026) Sparks Lowry A quasi-remake of a much better Japanese horror film strips its source material of any complexity, idiosyncrasy and nuance.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
The Gates (2026) Sparks Lowry The Gates does a perfectly adequate job as a vehicle for both James Van Der Beek, in his last role, and its true lead actors, but struggles with its vision.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead (2026) Joel Copling Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead is crushed by the weight of its own franchise aspirations, conflating lengthy exposition and omnipresent narration with worldbuilding.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
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