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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
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
3.5/5
No Other Choice (2025) James Scott There’s real magic in every paired-off scene where two characters confront each other – creating wonderful clashes of physical human contact that challenge the disassociation insisted on by the system they’re all being run through.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Richard Whittaker Win or lose, you’ll still kind of want Marty to take a punch to the schnozz. But at least you’ll understand why he’s that way.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Song Sung Blue (2025) Richard Whittaker Yet it’s still a touching depiction of two people in love. At the end of the day, Brewer reminds us, it’s all about hands touching hands.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Anaconda (2025) Richard Whittaker By the time the final act slithers on the screen, Gormican has abandoned any sense of originality and just props the film up on nostalgia-manipulating cameos and clumsy, overused needle drops.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Secret Agent (2025) Kimberley Jones The period detail is a marvel, the era’s music a most excellent groove, and the cast a top-to-bottom wowzer of interesting faces and eclectic bodies.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Richard Whittaker If future films deliver similar spectacle and true, epic filmmaking, then this lengthy sequel can afford to be a prelude.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) Richard Whittaker When what Billy and Charlie are really up to is revealed, it turns the original’s sick-making nature into a fun little morality tale with the wicked getting exactly what they deserve.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Dust Bunny (2025) Richard Whittaker Here, [Fuller] takes a story that should be horrifying – an orphaned child who turns to her murderous neighbor for assistance and revenge – and makes a fairy tale of it.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2006) Richard Whittaker With Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, [Tarantino] finally gets to complete his own work of cinematic archeology, and what he exhumes springs to life like the first time it was projected. Viva Kill Bill!
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Hamnet (2025) Kimberley Jones Hamnet is at its best when exploring primal emotions, following the example of Agnes, with her elemental connection to the earth.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
100 Nights of Hero (2025) Richard Whittaker The bittersweet moral is that changing the world never happens overnight, on our planet or another.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Zootopia 2 (2025) Richard Whittaker The heart of the story remains Hopps and Wilde, and the sparkling, witty, and endearing energy between them.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Richard Whittaker Wake Up Dead Man is a cunning and entertaining mystery, a return to form for the franchise.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Eternity (2025) Marjorie Baumgarten Eternity bears a cute premise that becomes worn down through repetition.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Jay Kelly (2025) Kimberley Jones Trier’s films don’t treat depression like something that’s got to get fixed, or relegate the depression to a secondary character, othering it. Uniquely, depression feels first-person-lived in a Trier film.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Peter Hujar's Day (2025) Kimberley Jones Peter Hujar’s Day is a monument to the thrillingly mundane minutiae of living. I found it almost indescribably moving.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
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