Reviews
THE FORBIDDEN CITY's Wildly Entertaining and Affecting Thrills Come Home on 4K UHD
Well Go USA brings three new genre films to home video.
KINUYO TANAKA DIRECTS Blu-ray Review: A Beguiling 6-Film Career
The Japanese actress' transition behind the camera is explored in a new Eclipse series boxed set from The Criterion Collection.
BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS Review: Yuen Woo-ping Roams His Gallant Martial World with an Ensemble Cast
A constellation of Chinese martial arts stars shines in this epic historical action film, including Wu Jing, Jet Li, Nicholas Tse, among others.
Fantaspoa 2026 Review: IAI
About twenty-five years ago, Japan's special kind of horror suddenly spread over the world like a virus. This horror had none of the fun exuberance of slashers, none of the tongue-in-cheek references to popular culture, and none of the gorefests...
LEE CRONIN'S THE MUMMY Review: An Old Monster, A New Nightmare, Courtesy of James Wan and Jason Blum
Universal’s once hyped, subsequently derided “Dark Universe,” a misguided attempt to create a Marvel-style shared universe featuring newly imagined incarnations of the studio’s classic monsters, may be done and dusted, but the mummy, the stumbling, wrapped-in-bindings undead avatar of vengeance,...
AMRUN Review: Austere and Solitary Observer with Confused Psyche
Jasper Billerbeck, Laura Tonke, Lisa Hagmeister, and Kian Köppke star in this historical drama.
MĀRAMA Review: Combining the Personal and Political, In Gothic Form
Ariana Osborne, Toby Stephens, and Umi Myers star in writer/director Taratoa Stappard's gothic horror mystery.
MILE END KICKS Review: Contemporary RomCom Captures a Challenge of Epic Proportions
Barbie Ferreira, Devin Bostick, and Stanley Simons star in director Chandler Levack's music-laced romantic comedy.
NORMAL Review: Holy Hellfire of Violence and Mayhem on Main Street
Bob Odenkirk, Henry Winkler, and Lena Headey star in director Ben Wheatley's action thriller.
BALLISTIC Review: Mother Undone by Her Son's Battlefield Death
Lena Headey stars in director Chad Faust's unexpectedly nuanced and consistently engrossing drama.
CITY WIDE FEVER Review: Not Really a Giallo Homage, And That's Ok
Josh Heaps’ City Wide Fever is a real oddity. On the surface, it’s a small DIY thriller that looks shot on the cheap, which already narrows down its appeal. But if you get on its wavelength over the course of its very brief...
ERUPCJA Review: Of Turning Points and Volcanoes
Charli XCX, Lena Góra, Will Madden, and Jeremy O. Harris star in Pete Ohs' effervescent, gracefully-wrought film.
MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES Review: Complicated, Layered, Coldly Calculating, Warmly Effusive
Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Nick Offerman star in David E. Kelley's new series.
REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE Review: Earnest, If Stagey, Tale of Unwavering Faith
Acts. Questions. Steps. Leaps. All words with which 'of faith' can be easily and appropriately clipped on, and applied especially to Caroline Golum's Revelations of Divine Love, a micro-budget marvel of faith-based cinema that dramatises (and implicitly modernises) the writings...
Overlook 2026 Review: TRAUMA, OR MONSTERS ALL Brings A Thirty Year Project Full Circle
It's been a little over thirty years since indie horror godfather Larry Fessenden burst into the consciousness of the underground with his sideways vampire epic, Habit. In the decades since then, he and his Glass Eye Pix production house have...
INFILTRATE Review: Generic Actioner Elevated by Superior Stunt Work
James Mark directed the action thriller, starring Orphée Ladouceur-Nguyen, Tim Rozon, Mitra Suri, Alain Moussi, and Lisa Berry.
THE CHRISTOPHERS Review: Art Forgery Comedy-Drama Excels On Every Level
Steven Soderbergh's film stars Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel, with James Corden, Jessica Gunning.
BUNNYLOVR Review: Opaque Character Study of a Cam-Girl
Katarina Zhu stars in and directs a striking drama, co-starring Austin Amelio, Perry Yung, and Rachel Sennott.
THE TRAVEL COMPANION Review: Friendship and Filmmaking Commingle in Deadpan, Bittersweet Comedy
Directed by Travis Wood & Alex Mallis, the film stars Tristan Turner, Anthony Oberbeck, and Naomi Asa.
Diagonale 2026 Review: MOTHER'S BABY Masks a Paranoid Thriller Within an Ambiguous Psychological Portrait
Marie Leuenberger and Claes Bang star. Austrian filmmaker Johanna Moder tackles post-partum depression and potential psychosis as a slow-burning paranoid thriller, where maternal anxiety is filtered through an unreliable perspective and edged with traces of dark humour.
