Reviews
Berlinale 2026 Review: MOSCAS, Outsiders Search for Connection in Mexico City
Director Fernando Eimbcke's new film stars Teresita Sánchez, Bastian Escobar, and Hugo Ramírez.
Berlinale 2026 Review: SLEEP NO MORE, Horror in an Indonesian Sweatshop
Director Edwin's film stars Rachel Amanda, Lutesha, Iqbaal Ramadhan, Didik Nini Thowok, and Sal Priadi.
Berlinale 2026 Review: WE ARE ALL STRANGERS, Winning Generational Drama Set in Singapore
Writer/director Anthony Chen's film stars Yeo Yann Yann, Koh Jia Ler, Andi Lim, and Regene Lim.
DOLLY Review: The Texas Chain Saw Clone Would Be Better Left in the Toy Box
Rod Blackhurst's film stars Fabianne Therese, Seann William Scott, Ethan Suplee, Russ Tiller, Kate Cobb, Michalina Scorzelli, and Max the Impaler.
THE BRIDE! Review: Classic Tale Resurrected with a Natural (Re)born Killers Twist
Jessie Buckley stars in Maggie Gyllenhaal's reimagining.
ANDRE IS AN IDIOT Review: Richly Imagined, Deeply Affecting, Often Hilarious
Tony Benna's standout documentary follows advertising executive André Ricciardi as he confronts a fatal diagnosis.
I LIVE HERE NOW Review: A Place to Go When You Have Nowhere Else to Go
Lucy Fry, Sarah Rich, Madeline Brewer, Lara Clear, Matt Rife, and Sheryl Lee star in Julie Pacino's ambitious psychodrama.
FRIENDS LIKE THESE: THE MURDER OF SKYLAR NEESE Review: Teenage Kicks Turn Deadly
Directed by Clair Titley, the documentary series examines a baffling case.
Berlinale 2026 Review: NINA ROZA, Child Prodigy Reopens a Migrant Father's Unfinished Past
Geneviève Dulude-De Celles situates a cross-border art-world story within an intimate study of diasporic return, using the investigation of a rural child prodigy to examine authorship, cultural projection, and the unresolved fault lines of migration.
THE UGLY Review: TRAIN TO BUSAN Director Gut-Wrenchingly Critiques Vanity and Violence
Filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho ('Train to Busan') directs a thought-provoking and gut-wrenching murder mystery.
HEEL Review: Empathy Is Tested in Uncomfortable Study of Redemption
Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough star in this twisted psychological thriller.
Rotterdam 2026 Review: NO HIT WONDER Scores Quite A Few Hits
Crack jokes all you want about the concept of German comedy films, but they exists and are often quite good. Case in point: Florian Dietrich's comedy No Hit Wonder, which played at the International Film Festival Rotterdam this year and...
MICRO BUDGET Review: Taking Down Filmmaking From the Inside
Most movies that go behind the scenes on a set to showcase the blood, sweat and tears that go into making movies treat filmmaking as a badge of honor. Whether it's a documentary -- see Mark Borchardt in American...
Berlinale 2026 Review: LIGHT PILLAR Casts a Melancholic Glow on Disconnection
In his animated feature debut, Zao Xu applies a production designer's precision to a near future fable that examines precarious labor, mediated intimacy and the fragile architectures, both physical and digital, that shape contemporary isolation.
IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE Review: Pixar's Andrew Stanton's Underwhelming Return to Live-Action Filmmaking
As a writer and/or director of finely crafted, populist animated entertainments, Andrew Stanton (Finding Dory, WALL-E, Finding Nemo) has few, if any, equals. Stanton’s only foray into live-action filmmaking, however, John Carter, an expensive adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' titular character...
SCREAM 7 Review: Well, That Was Brutal
Neve Campbell returns. Kevin Williamson sits in the director's chair.
Rotterdam 2026 Review: GUNMAN Is One Shot That Hits
Festival people are the best. At the International Film Festival Rotterdam, a filmmaker I met for the first time almost immediately recommended I should watch Cris Tapia Marchiori's thriller Gatillero, released internationally as Gunman, and it turned out to be...
GHOST ELEPHANTS Review: Werner Herzog Reconciles Pragmatism and Poetry in the Angola Highlands
In 1955, Hungarian born Angolan rancher, businessman, and big game hunter, Josef J. Fénykövi, tracked down and killed the largest land animal on record. He was lauded by Sports Illustrated at the time for this sportsman prowess, although Fénykövi...
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN 4K UHD Review: Deeper with Special Features
Alan J. Pakula's 1976 classic stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. Features on the new 4K bring more insight.
Berlinale 2026 Review: IN A WHISPER (À VOIX BASSE) Unearths the Queer Stigma in a Tunisian Family and Beyond
Eya Bouteraa, Hiam Abbass, and Salma Baccar form a familial portrait across three generations confronted with an unspoken secret.
