CLOSURE Review: Grief and Hope Entwine in This Powerful, Beautiful Doc
A film by Michał Marczak.
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.
BREEDER Review: Creepy Poodle Lady Extends Dinner Invitation, with Discomfort and Dark Humor on the Menu
Daniel Doheny, Dot-Marie Jones, Maddie Phillips, and Tanaya Beatty star in a film by director and writer Alex Goyette.
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.
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...
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...
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM Review: Mesmerizing Blast from the Past
In 1972, director, editor, producer, and actor William Greaves, whose body of work includes Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) and Nationtime (1972), gathered the remaining luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance in Duke Ellington’s apartment on 157th. This meeting resulted in four...
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Review: Too Much Technique, Not Enough Passion
Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esme Creed-Miles, Caitriona Balfe, George MacKay, and Fiona Shaw star in a new adaptation, directed by Georgia Oakley.
New York 2026 Review: A MAN OF HIS TIME, Timely and Sad Tale of Moral Compromises and Banality of Evil
In September of 1940, Henri Marre (Swann Arlaud), a writer, engineer, and a man of great ambition, arrives in the Vichy France, controlled by the Nazi collaborator, Philippe Pétain. Even though Henri despises the current state of affairs, his aspirations,...
New York 2026 Review: ARTIFICIAL Doesn't Make a Bigger Splash
The NYFF premiere of Luca Guadagnino ‘s Artificial, which is set for a theatrical release in December, comes one year after the NYFF premiere of the director’s previous live-action feature, After the Hunt. Unlike the previous film, which was highly...
OTHER MOMMY Review: Horror Version of SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE No One Really Wanted
Seven-year-old Bela (Arabella Olivia Clark) lives with her mother, Ursula (Jessica Chastain), and her father, Russell (Jay Duplass), who love each other very much. At least, that’s what the girl is planning to say in her introduction speech at her...
New York 2026 Review: THE DREAMED ADVENTURE, Once Upon a Time in Bulgaria
A middle-aged man, Said (Syuleyman Alilov Letifov), comes back to his small Bulgarian hometown, situated not far from the borders of both Turkey and Greece. He is here to conduct some shady deal involving diesel fuel, but when his car...
New York 2026 Review: A STATEMENT, One of the Timeliest Films You'll See This Season
Tom McCarthy directs Paul Rudd, Amy Ryan, Paul Giametti, and more.
New York 2026 Review: BITTER CHRISTMAS, Weird Act of Artistic Self-Deprecation
Pedro Almodóvar's latest feature film.
New York 2026 Review: BEHEMOTH!, Total Ungrip of the Heart
Pedro Pascal stars in director Tony Gilroy's new film.
New York 2026 Review: HEIL JUPITER!, Experiment That May Surprise but Not Enthrall
Carlos Reygadas' new film.
VERITY Review: Erotic Thriller Pays Lots of Attention to Teeth, but Forgoes Having Its Own
Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett star.
