Reviews
Karlovy Vary 2026 Review: THE GUEST Serves Nordic Cringe as Family Dramedy
A restrained yet incisive Nordic tragicomedy, The Guest spins the dysfunctional-family drama for a millennial generation through claustrophobic staging, corrosive microaggressions, and Trine Dyrholm's meticulously ambiguous performance.
ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE 4K Review: Ellen Burstyn Makes a Meal Out of Martin Scorsese's Women-First Picture
Ellen Burstyn, Alfred Lutter, and Kris Kristofferson star, with Harvey Keitel, Diane Ladd, Vic Tayback, and Jodie Foster.
THE KIDNAPPING OF ARABELLA Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Not Worth Embarking On
Chris Pine stars in Carolina Cavalli's new kidnapping dramedy.
THE ODYSSEY Review: Potent As Political Message, Flawed As Entertainment
Christopher Nolan's new film stars Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Benny Safdie, and a cast of thousands.
STEAL AWAY Review: Contemporary Fairy Tale Explores the Dark and the Harsh
The words uttered at the beginning of a story don't have to be precisely 'Once upon a time' to lure the audience into a fairy tale. But the form continues to resonate for a reason: we understand that such a...
THE CRYING GAME 4K Review: The View Beyond the Twist
Neil Jordan's 1992 masterpiece has only deepened in courage and complexity in the years since.
LUCKY Review: Percolating With Criminal Tension
Anya Taylor-Joy, Annette Bening, and Timothy Olyphant star in the Apple TV crime drama series, with Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Drew Starkey, Clifton Collins Jr. and William Fichtner.
FID Marseille 2026 Review: MOTHER, YOU HAVE NOT DIED YET. BUT YOU WILL. AND WHEN YOU DO, YOU WILL FINALLY BE ALIVE AGAIN, Impressionistic Take on Grief and History
Directed by Advik Beni. Merging past and present, personal and historical, the film has a quality of a lucid dream.
New York Asian 2026 Review: COLONY Puts Yeon Song-ho Back In The Undead Driver's Seat
Zombies in a mall, you say? It’s been done before but leave it to Korean genre master Yeon Song-ho to take everything you think you know about the living dead and crank it up to eleven and you’ve got another...
GAIL DAUGHTRY AND THE CELEBRITY SEX PASS Review: One Of The Year's Funniest Films Is Here
When her fiancé Tom (Michael Cassidy) cashes in his celebrity hall pass in the back room of a local bookstore, poor Gail Daughtry (Zoey Deutch) is heartbroken. What was once a whimsical thought exercise has now become very real. The...
MOANA (2026) Review: Bland, Dull, Lifeless Live-Action Remake
Unnecessary. Redundant. Superfluous. Three English-language words that describe the same or similar experience in life or fiction. Any one of those words, alone or collectively, can also describe Moana, the less-than-anticipated live-action remake of the 10-year-old animated hit that...
WESTHAMPTON Review: Dry Humor, Bittersweet Irony, Inherently Messy
Christian Nilsson's drama stars Finn Wittrock, RJ Mitte, Jake Weary, Amy Forsyth, Sam Strike, Mary Mallen, Joy Suprano, Dan Lauria, Roxanne Schiebergen, Tovah Feldshuh, Ritchie Coster.
Now Streaming: MEBIUS DUST, Breaking Free
Young people who have been empowered by meteorites seek to break free from government restrictions. Is that a good idea?
Now Streaming: CHAINSMOKER CAT, Gleefully Running on Nicotine
Tobacco addiction is happily embraced by a young woman, but a reckoning may be coming.
Now Streaming: TOMB RAIDER KING, Hunting Relics in the Future
One minute you're fighting a dragon, the next minute you're in a police station, filing a report.
EVIL DEAD BURN Review: The Deadites Finally Flame Out In The Series' First Dud
The Deadites are back – kind of – in director Sébastien Vaniček’s Evil Dead Burn, the sixth feature film entry in the long running horror franchise. A direct follow-up to 2013’s Evil Dead and 2023’s Evil Dead Rise, Evil Dead...
Now Streaming: THE GHOST IN THE SHELL Hearkens Back to the 90s
The new anime adaptation may be quite nostalgic for some, confusing for others.
Now Streaming: RED RIVER, Stranger in a Strange Land
A young woman seeks accommodation after being whisked away from everything she knows.
Now Streaming: YOUNG LADIES DON'T PLAY FIGHTING GAMES, Sister Street Fighter at Elite Girls' School
A scholarship student meets a highly-admired, very popular model student. What could they have in common?
DARK BLUE Review: Bringing Kurt Russell's Dark Side to 4K UHD
Kurt Russell and Scott Speedman embrace police corruption in Ron Shelton's 'Dark Blue'
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