From The Editors
Echoes: Pakistan Has An Indie Film Movement. Why Aren't We Talking About It?
Traditional Pakistani cinema relies on commercial Eid releases, celebrity-led projects, and box-office numbers, implying a risk-averse industry culture. However, there's another kind of cinema that is quietly in the making: Pakistani indie cinema. I have talked about films that we...
Toronto 2026 Review: WILD HORSE NINE, All Flourish and No Feeling
What does Salvadore Allende’s 9/11, Hank Williams, the JFK assassination, and an empathy for insects have in common? How does a stable democracy result in homosexuality, which leads, eventually, to fine quality cheeses? Writer-director hyphenate Martin McDonagh is here to...
Toronto 2026 Review: FURIES, A Feverishly Hellish Heist By Women Scorned
What is the world coming to when you have to steal your own hard earned money? Dalia is in need of a significant surgery. Until then, her medicine is only available on the black market, where half of it is...
Toronto 2026 Review: ALL OF A SUDDEN, Gently Drawing the Viewer Into More Difficult Realities
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's latest, All of a Sudden is a revelation. A mediation on the everyday lives of his characters and the weightier ideas orbiting them, the film transcends the experiences and ideas it presents. Considering that the film glides between...
Opening This Week: RESIDENT EVIL, BAD APPLES, SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM
Plus: 'The History of Concrete' and 'The Weight.'
THE SECRET AGENT 4K Review: A Masterpiece of Memory and Resistance
It's hard to fathom, even in hindsight, how a film about a dictatorship, its long reach into the lives of seemingly ordinary people, a love of old movie houses and carnivals, and something of an experimental narrative structure, could translate...
Toronto 2026 Review: MINOTAUR, Russia As A Psychological-Visual Labyrinth
Andrey Zvyagintsev interrogates Russia in the same way 1990s era Zhang Yimou interrogated China: Methodically, metaphorically, and with an astutely savage eye for beautiful visuals to mask the criticism. There is a scene in his latest film, Minotaur, where the...
WHEN EMMA CAME HOME: Filming Wraps on Upcoming Psychological Horror Film From Viral Filmmaker Spencer Keller
Filming has wrapped on an upcoming psychological horror flick When Emma Came Home, the feature debut from viral filmmaker Spencer Keller. ... an ambitious documentary filmmaker (...) sets out to discover what happened twenty years ago when a girl...
Vlissingen 2026 Review: YOURI, A Great Film About A Great Friendship
The Film by the Sea festival in Vlissingen (a.k.a. Flushing) started this year on a high note with its opening film Youri, by Sander Burger. The festival always has a large section dedicated to literary adaptations, and its main theme...
Celluloid Screams 2026: Sheffield Horror Film Festival Announces Lineup
With spooky season running head on like a psycho killer wielding a machete our attention turns to the regional genre festivals that happen around the UK. Every year we check in on our friends at Celluloid Screams, the horror film...
MOTELX 2026 Award Winners: NO REST FOR THE WICKED And MANCAVE win Best European films, IT'S CHICO TIME! wins Best Portuguese Short
The twentieth edition of this year's MOTELX film festival is drawing to a close today. The award winners were announced yesterday, so it is time for a bit of catch up. The Méliès d’argent Awards for the best European...
SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM Review: It's All About Growth
It's the latest sly, LOL comic adventure from Aardman Animation -- need we say more?
Toronto 2026 Review: RIVER, Survival Slasher Has an Experimental Streak
What is in the water in 2026 for the slasher horror subgenre? Between Avalon Fast flirting and subverting expectations in Camp, and Jane Schoenbrun's deep dive into eros and thanatos (and the pleasure principle) in Teenage Sex and Death at...
Toronto 2026 Review: THE REMOTES, The Voices that Haunt the Night
Many of us (myself included) have come to rely on our smartphone apps maybe a little too much, especially ones that tell us where to go. Even in our own hometowns, we can turn to google maps or Mapquest to...
Toronto 2026 Review: Singaporean Drama AH GIRL Elevated by Assured New Director and Astonishing Young Lead
The debut feature from Singaporean writer-director Ang Geck Geck Priscilla is a semi-autobiographical story of a family’s separation, as seen through the eyes of a seven year old girl. Struggling to fully understand the gravity of the situation, and what...
Toronto 2026 Review: HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY!, Beautiful, Vibrant Portrait of Loss and Romance
Rinko Kikuchi stars in filmmaker Josef Kubota Wladyka's beautiful, vibrant, quirky, weird, imaginative, and genuinely moving portrait of moving on from devastating loss.
Now Playing: HOPE Rises, BLACK ZOMBIE Illuminates, ON A STRING Amuses
Plus: 'Don't Play With Fire,' 'The Uprising,' 'Practical Magic 2,' and 'The Fix.'
DISCO ITALIANA Interview: Alan Jones Talks Severin's Box Set
Watching movies isn’t always fun if one is a critic but the idea that it should be is a nice one. No matter how seriously we approach the medium of film, no matter how many greatest-films-of-all-time lists are generated,...
Toronto 2026 Review: FJORD, Palme D'Or Winner Finds Many Arthouse Audience Buttons to Push
Roger Ebert once described film as a “machine that generates empathy.” For writer-director Christian Mugiu, this is very much true. But what if that empathy was slyly and sharply weaponized into a provocation? Enter Fjord. In our increasingly globalized...
PRACTICAL MAGIC 2 Review: Second Time Isn't a Charm
When Practical Magic was released in 1998, no one probably thought it would become a special movie for a whole slew of teenage girls and young women. And not just because of witchery, black cats, and pointy hats, even though...
