From The Editors
New York 2026 Review: ARTIFICIAL Doesn't Make a Bigger Splash
The NYFF premiere of Luca Guadagnino ‘s Artificial, which is set for a theatrical release in December, comes one year after the NYFF premiere of the director’s previous live-action feature, After the Hunt. Unlike the previous film, which was highly...
MUSK Review: Must-See Doc That Sadly Will Go Mostly Unseen
At 12:01 p.m. on January 20th, 2029, the 48th president of the United States will be sworn into office. His name — because more likely than not, the next president will be a “he” — will not be Donald...
Echoes: Do Pakistani Films Need International Recognition to Prove Their Worth?
Iram Parveen Bilal's Wakhri (2024) won the Best Director Feature Film award at the 5th Yellowstone International Film Festival (YIFF) in New Delhi, India. Co-produced and directed by Iram Parveen, the drama film is inspired by the life of late...
CRYSTAL LAKE Review: Prequel Series is a Slow-Burn Crime Drama That Doesn't Skimp on Slasher Violence
One year after her young son's tragic drowning, a grieving single mother's dark past is unearthed by two strangers, triggering a disturbing chain of events that reveals the terrifying origins of a horror legend.
Opening This Week: WHALEFALL Swallowed, STREET FIGHTER Mauled, KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS Restored
Plus: 'Musk,' ''You Can See Everything,' 'Crawlers,' 'Sense and Sensibility,' 'La Bola Negra,' 'Once Upon a Time in Harlem,' 'The Only Living Pickpocket in New York.'
BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL Review: Riveting Reassessment of a Hysterically Hated Horror
David Kittredge's studious and fair cinematic essay on 'Exorcist II: The Heretic' is a witty raconteur of a documentary.
IN A VIOLENT NATURE 2: Theatrical Date Announced For Slasher Sequel
Following its world premiere as the first secret midnight screening at Fantastic Fest on September 18th, 2026, IFC Films and Shudder announced this weekend that In a Violent Nature: Part 2 will open in theatres nationwide on February 12, 2027....
HALLOWIEBE OVERDRIVE: This Is NOT A Review...
I normally don't review Dutch movies aimed at children, but there is a first time for everything and last year that was what happened with Hallowiebe, a fun family film with a Halloween theme. I am a big fan of...
OTHER MOMMY Review: Horror Version of SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE No One Really Wanted
Seven-year-old Bela (Arabella Olivia Clark) lives with her mother, Ursula (Jessica Chastain), and her father, Russell (Jay Duplass), who love each other very much. At least, that’s what the girl is planning to say in her introduction speech at her...
Now Playing: OTHER MOMMY, FJORD, ANIMALS, TENZING
Plus: 'Once Upon a Time in the Middle East,' 'The Beast,' 'The Social Reckoning.'
London 2026 Review: MAKING MARIE ANTOINETTE, The Godmother of the Making-Of Doc Bids a Moving Farewell
Eleanor Coppola's kind-hearted chronicle of her daughter Sofia's epic is a delightful swansong.
Friday One Sheet: MAKING MARIE ANTOINETTE
It has been 20 years since Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette was booed at its Cannes debut, before becoming an instant cult classic in its commercial release. I remember the splashy marketing, the contrast of a lavishly produced period picture with...
TENZING Review: Necessary, If Hagiographic, Corrective to Cultural History
When newspapers, radio stations, and television news programs reported the first successful summit of Mt. Everest on May 29th, 1953, Edmund “Ed” Hilary, a New Zealand member of a spring expedition organized by the British, received prime, sometimes sole credit...
V/H/S/MIXTAPE Review: The Kills Keep on Coming
Halloween is creeping up, which means a new V/H/S is landing on Shudder today, just in time for some post-trick-or-treat trauma. Since the series’ resurrection, V/H/S has largely traded its loose narrative throughline for an annual theme, and while the...
THE TEMPTATION OF BECKY Official Trailer: Becky's Back to Killing Nazis in Franchise's Threequel
"Maybe I was just a killing machine... But when it comes to killing Nazis, maybe that ain't such a bad thing".
New York 2026 Review: THE DREAMED ADVENTURE, Once Upon a Time in Bulgaria
A middle-aged man, Said (Syuleyman Alilov Letifov), comes back to his small Bulgarian hometown, situated not far from the borders of both Turkey and Greece. He is here to conduct some shady deal involving diesel fuel, but when his car...
Pretty Packaging: Imprint's SPECIES And SPECIES II Boxset Is One Of A Kind
I always love it when a distributor goes crazy with releasing a film, and few go quite as crazy as Australian distributor Via Vision with their Imprint label. Note that their more normal editions are nothing to sneeze at either,...
New York 2026 Review: 9 TEMPLES TO HEAVEN, Obtaining Merits
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's long time assistant director, Sompot Chidgasornpongse, makes a directorial debut.
New York 2026 Review: AT NIGHT, The Great Equalizer
Beatrice Gibson's feature debut is a beauty to behold.
New York 2026 Review: A STATEMENT, One of the Timeliest Films You'll See This Season
Tom McCarthy directs Paul Rudd, Amy Ryan, Paul Giametti, and more.
