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Heel (The Good Boy) (2025) Joel Copling Heel might shout its themes directly at the audience, but that’s less important than the clever and thoughtful thriller it becomes.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
THE BRIDE! (2026) Alan Zilberman A bizarre assemblage of tics and feminine fury, Buckley gives the worst performance of her impressive career, although it is not her fault. Not entirely, anyway.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Operation Taco Gary's (2024) Joel Copling Despite an entertaining performance by a game Simon Rex, Operation Taco Gary’s doesn’t really have much of a point beyond its own, very silly jokes.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Undercard (2025) Ria Dhull Multiple storylines are packed tightly into the plot, but none are given nearly enough time to develop.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Napa Boys (2025) Alan Zilberman It has many satirical targets, and the method of attack often seems random – sometimes with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, sometimes with the precision of a surgeon’s scalpel.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Bring the Law (2026) Joel Copling This is far from the worst example of this type of movie, but one wishes that its makers would force their film out of its style-starved confines and give us something exciting and fresh.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
For Worse (2025) Charles Johnston This low-budget rom-com was made with the spirit of nothing left to lose and comes with all the refreshing honesty that promises.
Posted Mar 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Dreams (2025) Tanner Gordon Issues notwithstanding, Dreams is effective enough as a thematic statement to be modestly successful.
Posted Feb 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Diabolic (2025) Joel Copling Diabolic is an ungodly, shockingly incoherent mess that falls flat even by the standards of empty genre exercise.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
This Is Not a Test (2025) Ria Dhull Olivia Holt’s fantastic lead performance does little to save Adam MacDonald’s stilted screenplay and confused direction.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Midwinter Break (2026) Jesse Doppelt Midwinter Break feels refreshing and authentic in showing an ordinary erosion of love, but it feels like the film ran out of runway before delivering a strong message on its themes.
Posted Feb 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Redux Redux (2025) A.C. Koch Redux Redux is a revenge story, centered on a sympathetic pair of wronged characters, but the time travel trope serves less as a plot engine than as an escape hatch for avoiding story logic.
Posted Feb 23, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
How to Make a Killing (2026) Alan Zilberman Watching a criminal get away with theft and murder can be funny, as long it arrives with the requisite charm. Powell and Ford never find that, and we are left with wooden performance surrounded by incomplete subplots. Where did it all go wrong?
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
By Design (2025) Erik Reeds By Design is an interesting and forward-thinking work, even if it does come off as a bit of a missed opportunity at times.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
My Father's Shadow (2025) Holly Hazelwood A work of autofiction, Akinola Davies Jr.'s film is by no means a vacation, and many of the struggles it depicts are ever-present.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Hunting Jessica Brok (2025) Joel Copling Hunting Jessica Brok is exhausting and tedious as its action scenes go on and on (and on some more).
Posted Feb 18, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Mimics (2025) Alan Zilberman The biggest testament to this film’s overwhelming ineptitude is how the unintentional anti-climax barely registers as a problem because much of what preceded it is already that much worse.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) Tanner Gordon In this pseudo-sci-fi saga of two idiotic, loveable strivers, Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol have achieved something that’s genuinely awe-inspiring.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Cold Storage (2026) Joseph Neff In terms of good-taste subversion, Cold Storage is nearer to Troma than John Waters.
Posted Feb 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) Joel Copling Matthew Robinson and Gore Verbinksi don’t just look at our world and find a reason to give warning, they see it as a five-alarm fire.
Posted Feb 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Wuthering Heights (2026) Ria Dhull About halfway through this much-anticipated adaptation, Emerald Fennell finds her focus.
Posted Feb 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977) Josh Goller If you’re hunting for a singular horror oddity, don’t sleep on Death Bed.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Fiend of Dope Island (1961) Pat Padua Generates more than enough tropical fever to make its taut 76-minute runtime consistently entertaining, embodying the Herzogian quote from one of its supporting characters: "There’s a thin line sometimes between human and beast."
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Calle Málaga (2025) Joseph Neff Calle Málaga is a film to savor, in both its sincere humanism and its refusal to soften the harsh realities it presents.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
The Roaring Game (2025) Joel Copling The Roaring Game has such an easy target that one wonders how writer/director Tommy DeNucci could have so wildly missed his mark.
Posted Feb 10, 2026  Edit critic review
The President's Cake (2025) Erik Reeds There are, in the film’s conclusion, fleeting portraits of generosity and humanity in Hadi’s portrayal of his home country, but it’s unclear what the overarching purpose of this story is.
Posted Feb 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Whistle (2025) Josh Goller Whistle makes for a stale, by-the-numbers horror trifle that only resonates in sporadic, fleeting bursts.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Pillion (2025) Tanner Gordon A salty-sweet film, with just a tinge of sourness in its bite, that acknowledges the bumpy road that comes with discovering what makes you tick.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Solo Mio (2026) Jesse Doppelt The Kevin James vehicle is a sincere, undemanding romantic comedy with enough heart to overcome its simplicity.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Dracula (2025) Charles Johnston This lush rendition subverts expectations to be more of a heart-wrenching love story than a straight-up Gothic horror movie.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Paying for It (2024) Joseph Neff An adaptation of a graphic novel covers a mostly-true and controversial story with depth and breadth.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Natchez (2025) Erik Reeds Push and pull between narratives, occasional tension, genuine history and conversations are at the heart of the work, and when the film is showing all of these, it’s particularly effective.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
A Poet (2025) Charles Johnston A modern neorealist film that, like a poem, finds beauty in the most unlikely of places.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
The Love That Remains (2025) Ria Dhull Pálmason’s vision might have been clarified with more thought put into the film’s cinematography and a heavier hand in the editing room.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Islands (2025) Joel Copling Islands works as a playful and simultaneously mournful subversion of a well-trod genre featuring a deeper protagonist than we might expect that can nevertheless be enigmatic to a fault.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
The Moment (2026) Tanner Gordon By the end, audiences may find themselves as tired of the Brat era as Charli herself seems to be.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Lupin the IIIrd: The Movie - The Immortal Bloodline (2025) Bill Cooper Lupin the III’s latest soulless, joyless entry features a humdrum plot with no excitement and tension throughout to drive it forward.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
The Dreamer Cinderella (2025) Charles Johnston An egregiously unpolished film that still manages to glow with an otherworldly charm.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
Standout: The Ben Kjar Story (2025) Joel Copling Christensen’s documentary isn’t an overwhelming experience in terms of its form, but the subject and story are enough to carry it.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
In Cold Light (2025) Joseph Neff In Cold Light is ultimately a standard issue thriller, doing nothing to reinvent and too little to invigorate its genre.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
H Is for Hawk (2025) A.C. Koch H is for Hawk is a compelling memoir, written by a literary mind in a literary mode, and wouldn't seem to lend itself easily to adaptation to cinema. Maybe that’s why the film adaptation feels like only half of a movie.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Mercy (2026) Alan Zilberman Does Mercy really expect us to accept that an AI’s pursuit of justice – something it manifestly cannot care about, since it has no values – will lead it toward human personality traits?
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Killer Whale (2026) Joel Copling The incompetence on display in Killer Whale, an alleged thriller about surviving a potential orca attack, is occasionally breathtaking.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
A Useful Ghost (2025) Ria Dhull Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke analyzes the lines separating ghost and human in a skillful first feature.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Sound of Falling (2025) Holly Hazelwood In spite of the shadows that lurk in this farmstead, Sound of Falling could convince you to brave a dose of that darkness just to forge your own memories there.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Charlie the Wonderdog (2025) Joel Copling The movie thankfully isn’t too frantic nor frenetic, but it never recaptures the slight promise of its opening few minutes.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
All You Need Is Kill (2025) Bill Cooper Despite attempting to separate itself from Edge of Tomorrow, the anime film All You Need Is Kill is a weaker, forgettable comparison point to the 2014 sci-fi flick.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
A Private Life (2025) Daniel Pemberton Rebecca Zlotowski's deliciously cerebral — albeit uneven — Parisian mystery film is primarily anchored by Jodie Foster's performance.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Night Patrol (2025) Charles Johnston Exhilarating in its presentation, especially at the beginning, but steadily loses narrative drive due to a strange inability to ever commit to a main character.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) A.C. Koch It's a blood-soaked story with unexpected detours into humor, music, mysticism and the one thing that seems least likely to have survived this long: human warmth.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
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