ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of The First Half Of 2025
Due to February being so short, the second half of 2025 starts today (instead of on the first of July). Logic dictates that this means the first half of 2025 is over and done with... meaning we can make a...
Tribeca 2025 Review: INSIDE, Harsh, Edgy Prison Drama with Stellar Performances
Guy Pearce, Cosmo Jarvis, Vincent Miller, Toby Wallace, and Tammy Macintosh star in director Charles Williams's dramatic thriller.
Tribeca 2025 Review: OUR HERO, BALTHAZAR, Fear and Loathing on the Net and IRL
Jaeden Martell, Asa Butterfield, Chris Bauer, and Jennifer Ehle star in Oscar Boyson's debut feature.
Tribeca 2025 Review: WESTHAMPTON, Not Another Garden State
For the second time in the Tribeca Festival program, a film starts with a Q&A session that doesn’t go overly well. At least, the filmmaker protagonist of The Travel Companion mostly has to just stand there awkwardly, digesting the fact...
Tribeca 2025 Review: A TREE FELL IN THE WOODS, Both Love and Truth Hurt in Debut Dramedy About a Holiday Gone Wrong
Two married couples gather in a cabin in the woods on the day before New Year’s Eve. The four people are tied together through the decades of friendship between Debs (Alexandra Daddario), a writer suffering from the second book block,...
Tribeca 2025 Review: AFTER THIS DEATH, Wonderfully Bizarre Thriller Explores Desire, Complex Nature of Creative Process
Mia Maestro, Lee Pace, Rupert Friend, Gwendoline Christie, and Philip Ettinger star in Lucio Castro's mystery-thriller.
Tribeca 2025 Review: TOW, Rose Byrne Shines in True Story Dramedy, As One Woman Battles Against the System
Rose Byrne, Octavia Spencer, Dominic Sessa, Ariana DeBose, Demi Lovato, and Simon Rex star in Stephanie Laing's drama.
Tribeca 2025 Review: ONE SPOON OF CHOCOLATE, Stylized Action Aims a Blow, Doesn't Pack a Punch
Shameik Moore stars in RZA's new film.
Tribeca 2025 Review: SHAM, True Crime Courtroom Drama Filled with Missed Opportunities
Takashi Miike's film stars Gô Ayano.
Tribeca 2025 Review: BIRTHRIGHT, Impressive Black Comedy About the Horrors of Blood Ties
Zoe Pepper's film stars Travis Jeffery, Maria Angelico, Michael Hurst, and Linda Cropper.
Tribeca 2025 Review: IN COLD LIGHT, Neo-Noir Thriller Impresses With Visuals, Rings Hollow Otherwise
Maika Monroe, Troy Kotsur and Helen Hunt star in Maxime Giroux's gritty crime story.
Tribeca 2025 Review: DRAGONFLY, Powerful Psychological Drama About Desperately Seeking Connection
Brenda Blethyn and Andrea Riseborough star in Paul Andrew Williams' thriller.
Tribeca 2025 Review: THE TRAVEL COMPANION, The Unbearable Lightness of Being an Indie Filmmaker
The Travel Companion, a feature debut made by a creative duet of Alex Mallis and Travis Wood, continues to explore the topic that was prominent at last year’s Tribeca Festival (and showcased in such films as Adult Best Friends and...
BALLERINA Review: All She Wants To Do Is Dance (But Her Shooting Skills Are Better)
Ana de Armas, Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, Lance Reddick, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Norman Reedus star, with Ian McShane, and Keanu Reeves.
THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME Review: All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go
Out of many cultural references featured in Wes Anderson’s latest film, The Phoenician Scheme, the one that was absolutely not intended by the authors, but that keeps coming to mind, is Amy Adams’ famous rant in The Fighter about having...
HURRY UP TOMORROW Review: Sometimes, the Show Must Not Go On
Abel Tesfaye, Jenna Ortega, and Barry Keoghan star.
A DESERT Review: Chasing Ghosts, Finding Nightmares
Sarah Lind and Kai Lennox star in director Joshua Erkman's thriller.
VULCANIZADORA Review: Dark, Deadpan, Often Absurdist Humor, Yet Grim
Director Joel Potrykus' black comedy stars himself and Joshua Burge on a strange trek through a forest with a disturbing destination in mind.
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.
