Reviews
THE LEGEND OF OCHI Review: Richly Imagined Fantasy Adventure
Helena Zengel, Finn Wolfhard, Emily Watson, and Willem Dafoe star in Isaiah Saxon's family adventure.
THE UGLY STEPSISTER Review: Fairy Tale, Subverted Into Body Horror
Emilie Blichfeldt wrote and directed; Lea Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, and Ane Dahl Torp star.
LIGHT OF THE SETTING SUN Review: How Trauma Shapes Identity, Inspires Poetry
Director Vicky Du peers into the past through the prism of her own family's history. Why did they leave China? Why did they leave Taiwan?
THE SHROUDS Review: Intensely Personal Body Horror
David Cronenberg's new film stars Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, and Sandrine Holt.
INVENTION Review: Grief, Legacy, and Myth Collide in Hybrid Dramedy
Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez created a film that intricately blends personal history, archival footage, and fictional narrative to explore themes of grief, memory, and the fine line between reality and fantasy.
GOVERNMENT CHEESE Review: Bizarrely Amusing Surreal Comedy
David Oyelowo, Simone Missick, Jahi Di'Allo Winston and Evan Ellison star in the Apple TV+ series.
JEAN DE FLORETTE / MANON OF THE SPRING 4K Review: Two Films by Claude Berri
Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Yves Montand, and Emmanuelle Béart star, as neighbours turn nasty in the French countryside.
WARFARE Review: In the Belly of the War Beast
Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland directed the anti-war picture from A24 Films.
Series Mania 2025 Review: PUTAIN Captures the Somber Drift of Adolescence
Created and written by Frederik Daem and directed by Deben Van Dam, the series is set against the backdrop of contemporary Brussels, offering a fragmented yet intimate study of adolescence.
NIGHT MOVES Gets the Criterion Treatment, Celebrating Its Dark Noir Brilliance
A Gene Hackman classic comes to 4K UHD from Criterion, and its sad perfection only hits harder since losing him earlier this year.
GUNSLINGERS Review: Come for Nicolas Cage, Stay If You Have 100 Minutes to Spare
Nicolas Cage, Stephen Dorff, and Heather Graham star in writer/director Brian Skiba's Western.
Series Mania 2025 Review: MUSSOLINI: SON OF THE CENTURY, Fascism as a Burlesque Theatre
Director Joe Wright gives his Mussolini biopic a 'Les Miz' treatment in a burlesque political miniseries about the rise of fascism.
UGETSU 4K Review: Kenji Mizoguchi's Masterpiece
Our friends at the Criterion Collection continue to be champions of world cinema and film preservation. They recently released the new 4K/Blu-ray combo pack for Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 masterpiece, Ugetsu. I reviewed Ugetsu the last time around in 2017, back...
YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS Review: Sad Eyes and the Ugly Rich
Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn, Hoon Lee, and Lena Hall star in creator Jonathan Tropper's surly new series, debuting globally on Apple TV+.
THE AMATEUR Review: First-time Spy vs. CIA Conspiracy
Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Jon Bernthal, and Laurence Fishburne star in director James Hawes' action thriller.
SOME LIKE IT HOT Blu-ray Review: Criterion Re-issues the Perfect Comedy
Some Like it Hot is one of those films that I can't remember not having seen; and yet, every time I watch it, it still feels fresh and funny. There is so much I learned from it for the first...
CHUNGKING EXPRESS 4K Review: Loneliness, Yearning, Loss, Romance, Joy, Bliss
Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, and Faye Wong star in Wong Kar Wai's masterpiece.
REVOLVER Review: Character Story in a Smoldering Thriller
Jeon Do-yeon, Ji Chang-wook, and Lim Ji-yeon star in Oh Seung-uk's slow-burn thriller.
Rotterdam 2025 Review: THREE DAYS OF FISH Proves You Can Never Go Home Again
Peter Hoogendoorn debuted very strongly almost ten years ago with Tussen 10 en 12 (Between 10 and 12), a rigidly structured movie set in a limited time-space. In it, a family one by one get told bad news by two...
Rotterdam 2025 Review: VIDEOHEAVEN, Alex Ross Perry's Juggernaut Essay About Video-stores
Alex Ross Perry's new film is a video-essay in the style of Thom Andersen's seminal Los Angeles Plays Itself, in that it focuses on a place and location, and explores this place solely through deep analysis of footage from films...
