Calgary Underground 2025: Curtain Raiser
Part fan-festival, with quietly subversive programming, and a gateway to oddness and offbeat cinema for Canada’s mid-west, the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) showcases a sampler of the highlights of indie, documentary and genre cinema from the festival circuit that...
WARFARE Review: In the Belly of the War Beast
Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland directed the anti-war picture from A24 Films.
GAZER Review: Atmospheric Neo-Noir Crumbles Under Its Own Style
Frankie (Ariella Mastroianni) is already having a rough night, having just been fired from her gas station job, when it gets even more complicated as she starts to believe that she witnessed an act of violence. "Believe" is an operative...
THE WOMAN IN THE YARD Review: Metaphors Are Exactly What They Seem to Be
Danielle Deadwyler stars in Jaume Colet-Serra's horror-thriller.
DARKEST MIRIAM Review: Librarians Are Open Books, Sometimes
Britt Lower and Tom Mercier star in director Naomi Jaye's highly-charged film.
Cinequest 2025 Review: VOICES CARRY, Grim Generational Trauma Thriller
If countless genre films have taught us anything, returning to a lake house where you spent your childhood and where some troubling events may have occurred is never a good idea. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what Sam (Gia Crovatin) and her...
CLEANER Review: DIE HARD Meets VERTICAL LIMIT. It's Not a Match Made in Heaven.
This is a film about a bad day – you know, the kind you cannot help but think you should’ve just stayed at home. That’s exactly the case for Joey Locke (Daisy Ridley), who tries to ignore her alarm at...
INHERITANCE Review: These Spy Kids Films Aren't What They Used to Be
Phoebe Dynevor and Rhys Ifans star in director Neil Burger's thriller.
On David Lynch
It's not often that the team at ScreenAnarchy feels a loss like we have with David Lynch. And we're not alone; since last Thursday, I've seen an outpouring of love, sadness, and remembering that I've not seen the like...
FLIGHT RISK Review: Thriller Delivers Awkward Jokes, No Thrills
Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Dockery and Topher Grace star in director Mel Gibson's would-be thriller.
Screen Anarchists On NOSFERATU
Last week we posted an article listing our favorite films from 2024, and one entry in it was Robert Eggers' new take on Nosferatu. It was notable for at least two reasons. One: it only premièred at Christmas so not...
THE DAMNED Review: Cold Heart of Darkness
Odessa Young and Joe Coe star; Thordur Palsson directs the chilly, slow-burn horror thriller.
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of 2024
Hello all of you readers, we have officially entered 2025 so it's time to have a look back at 2024. We asked everyone here what their favorites were, and 24 writers gave a list. On those were a grand total...
BABYGIRL Review: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex and Yourself
Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson star in Halina Reijn's provocative erotic drama.
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG Review: Bold and Decidedly Unsubtle
Mohammad Rasoulof's film 'grapples with mistrust and paranoia' in Iran.
FLOW Review: The Brave Little Cat in a Brave New World
Gints Zilbalodis' animated film is Latvia's official selection for the 97th Academy Awards®️
Best International Feature.
ELEVATION Review: Nothing Is Elevated in This Unexciting Sci-Fi Action
Director George Nolfi's film stars Anthony Mackie and Morena Baccarin.
New York 2024 Review: WHO BY FIRE (COMME LE FEU), Bad Times at the Cabin in the Woods
Does anything good ever come out of vacationing in the woods? In genre cinema, going away for a weekend to a remote location is a recipe for all kinds of unpleasantness to happen. In festival dramas – eh, it usually...
New York 2024 Review: SUBURBAN FURY, The Truth is Still Out There in This Captivating Documentary Thriller
Even with all the collective force of human imagination, evidenced by books, scripts and conspiracy theories, nothing can be as wonderfully and sometimes scarily incredible as reality. Some history lessons, even seemingly lesser ones, are so genuinely wild it’s hard...
New York 2024 Review: TRANSAMAZONIA, Uneven But Poignant Coming-of-Age Story
A plane crashes in the Amazon jungle leaving a sole survivor, a five-year-old child named Rebecca, who is then saved just in time by an Indigenous Iruaté man. Nine years pass, and Rebecca (Helena Zengel) is now widely known as...
