Festivals Reviews
Morbido 2026 Review: LA MANCHA (YOU'RE IT), García Bogliano Brothers Unite Powers for Unconventional, Experimental Playground Terror
Inside an amusement park, a group of children and teenagers become trapped in a dark curse connecting them to a parallel world.
Morbido 2026 Review: TALKING TO A STRANGER, Gigi Saul Guerrero Shines in a Distressing Maternal Nightmare
Consumed by prescription pills and overwhelming guilt after a tragic house fire kills her young son, a grieving mother becomes the prey of a demonic entity that takes the boy's face to fracture her family.
Busan 2026 Review: INHERIT, Seductive Thai Insect Horror
Director Banjong Pisanthanakun's thriller stars Davika Hoorne and Thitiya Jirapornsilp. (Watch the trailer.)
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: SPLIT ROCK Explores the Horrors of Nature
Clark Backo and Drew Ray Tanner encounter horror in the desert, courtesy of director Ryan Glover.
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: SENDER, You've Got (Some Freaky) Mail
Britt Lower, Rhea Seehorn, Anna Baryshnikov, David Dastmalchian, and Jamie Lee Curtis star in director Russell Goldman's "psychological conspiracy-laden thriller."
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: MOUNTAIN KING, A Different Kind of Family Movie
Directed by Gabrielle Christensen, the film stars Hannah Deale, Carter Sirianni, Iryna Malygina, Keoki Trask, Juan Paulo Munevar, and Sarah Kim.
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2026 Review: THE OBSESSED
Director Takahashi Wataru may not be a household name yet among anime fans, but the man has built an impressive resumee already. An assistant to Miyazaki at Studio Ghibli, he was one of the people working on the change from...
Chicago 2026 Review: NO REST FOR THE WICKED, Beautiful Genre Mashup Queer Romance
For almost the first half of No Rest for the Wicked, the only thing marking it as a genre movie is its score, full of ominous electronic drones and sharp strings. The look, with foreboding aerial shots of the Faroe...
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: POSTHUMOUS, Tapes from the Darkside
Throughout the years, such films as Wolf Creek, The Babadook, The Loved Ones, Lake Mungo, Talk to Me, and many others collectively contributed to turning the audience into a proverbial Pavlov’s dog: A new Australian horror movie is always a...
Chicago 2026 Review: THE SPIRAL Turns a Family Story Into a Faustian Nightmare
In the Italian Oscar entry, the family that makes a deal with the devil stays together.
London 2026 Review: CLUB KID, Jordan Firstman's Warm and Tragic Bad Dad Dramedy
A stealth rebuild of a middling Adam Sandler film proves to be one of the year's best and most affecting films.
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: ERIE, Debut Found Footage Horror Overcomplicates Its Own Style
In the late 1990s, the city of Erie, Pennsylvania, experiences an epidemic of inexplicable deaths. One of the victims is Iris Scott (Aimee Paxton), whose strange death in the woods is eventually ruled a suicide, like most of the other...
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: SLAY, Witty Tribute to Classic Slashers
While AI obviously (and rightfully) suppressed pretty much all other dangers to humanity as the villain of our times, the rabbit hole that is social media and influencer culture is still too great a fodder for filmmakers to pass up....
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: PATHETIC FALLACY, True Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Every film festival program, no matter how expansive and diverse, usually has a bunch of movies that objectively aren’t bad, but aren’t particularly great either. When thinking about such films and what might be weighing them down, the conclusion you...
Toronto After Dark 2026 Short Film Short Review: MOIRA, An Ambiguous European Arthouse Gem
A patient shot of a damp London metro platform opens Anastasia Mischenko's superlative short film Moira. It's a shot that instantly evokes the static-adroit Euro-cinema of early 2000s Bruno Dumont, and the more recent work of Milagros Mumenthaler (The Currents). A...
Toronto After Dark 2026 Review: MY LOVE FOR YOU IS DEEP, BUT THE DEVIL LOVES ME DEEPER
Alice is a dreamer. She wants true love, intense love, and reciprocated love. She is not finding it in the clubs with her girlfriend, though, and her current boyfriend is clearly not into her. You can hear it in his...
Chicago 2026 Review: A CITY IN THE FOREST, Rallying Cry for the American Left
Throughout A City in the Forest, which tracks various forms of opposition to Atlanta's "Cop City" from 2020 to 2023, the filmmakers shout that they are press to ensure that they are not attacked by police who are violently arresting...
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2026 Review: CHIMNEY TOWN: FROZEN IN TIME
Six years ago, CGI-special effects specialist Hirota Yuusuke directed his first feature film, the anime Poupelle of Chimney Town, which I happened to like a lot. He just released his second feature, and it is... a sequel to Poupelle of...
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2026 Review: RHAPSODY, RHAPSODY, A Rom-Com Which Keeps It Real
It's the question which pops up in any interview with a director: "What will your next film be?" It is so common a question that if the mood allows for it, I will add "A romantic comedy perhaps?" and that...
Sitges 2026 Review: KICK ON, Aussie Survival Thriller Asks, Et Tu, Brute?
Colourful, entertaining, and exuberantly violent, Nick Kozakis’s debut feature makes the most of the geography and the opportunities of its single location to squeeze maximum tension and maximum gore out of its ultra-lean scenario. After running out of coke and...
