Indie Reviews
IN COLD LIGHT Review: Emotionally Resonant, Yet Overly Familiar
Maika Monroe, Troy Kotsur, and Helen Hunt star in director Maxime Giroux's thriller.
DOOBA DOOBA Review: Inventive, Thrilling, and Deeply Troubling Horror
Director Ehrland Hollingsworth's thriller stars Betsy Sligh, Amna Vegha, Erin O'Meara, Winston Haynes, and Billy Hulsey.
RETURN TO SILENT HILL Review: A Major Disappointment
There's a moment in the game, Silent Hill 2, when the player, as protagonist James, is alone exploring an abandoned apartment building and sees an unmoving creature on the opposite side of steel bars that divide a hallway. The creature...
NIGHT PATROL Review: Supernatural Cops Vs. The Projects In Ryan Prows's LOWLIFE Follow-Up
When legacy LAPD cop Ethan Hawkins (an absolutely electric Justin Long) is promoted to an elite specialized gang-busting unit, he and his rookie partner Xavier Carr (Jermaine Fowler) are thrown into a contentious conflict whose roots go back further than...
OBEX Review: Get on This Vibe! Rediscovering the Simple Pleasures of Life.
Directed by Albert Birney and written by Albert Birney and Pete Ohs, the film stars Albert Birney, Callie Hernandez and Frank Mosley in a lo-fi fantasy.
Now Streaming: MARSHMALLOW, Deeper Than It Looks
Also debuting this week: strangeness in 'A Desert' on Shudder, Sydney Sweeney in 'Americana' on Starz.
WE BURY THE DEAD Review: Signs of Life Are Grim, Dirty, and Unexpectedly Bloody
Daisy Ridley, Brenton Thwaites, Mark Coles Smith, and Matt Whelan star in Zak Hilditch's meditative zombie thriller.
FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER Review: Very Slight, Very Familiar, Very Jarmusch
Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat star in Jim Jarmusch's new film.
THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE Review: Portrait of a Lady on Religious Fire
Amanda Seyfried stars in Mona Fastvold's ode to the 18th century religious figure.
DAVID BYRNE'S AMERICAN UTOPIA 4K Review: Barefoot in a Suit
Spike Lee directs an electrifying film that leaps off the stage in Criterion's sterling new release.
SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT Review: Fun, Bloody, and Surprising Christmas Slasher
Surprise! The seventh film is the charm for a 40-year-old slasher franchise.
ATROPIA Review: Uproarious War Satire
Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Zahra Alzubaidi, Tony Shawkat, Jane Levy, Tim Heidecker, Lola Kirke, and Chloë Sevigny star; Hailey Benton Gates wrote and directed.
DUST BUNNY Review: Highly Enjoyable, As It Straddles the Line Between Whimsy and Gruesomeness
Mads Mikkelsen, Sigourney Weaver, and David Dastmalchian star in writer/director Bryan Fuller's dark, fantastical tale.
Tallinn 2025 Review: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Heartbreaking Story Tracks a Maid's Journey Through Egypt's Fractured Class Dynamics
Sarah Goher's film, submitted as Egypt's entry for the Academy Awards, offers an intimate, day-long portrait of a child's maid navigating shifting family and class dynamics.
RETURN TO REASON Blu-ray Review: The Dizzying Avant Garde of Man Ray
The first years of cinema, the seventh art was treated more as a technological marvel than a device with which to tell stories. Even when the technology progressed and storytelling took over, artists still found ways to explore the...
ROSEMEAD Review: True Story About a Mother's Love That's Too Centered on the Son
It's always odd when a film is based on a true story that is either old enough or simply wasn't major enough news that we don't all know it. Does it count as "spoilers" for the movie to direct people...
YOUNG BLONDES, STALKED AND MURDERED Review: Beguiling Hollywood Anti-Slasher
Samantha Carroll stars in director Nick Funess' disquieting film.
KEEPER Review: The Method to Drive A Person Mad
Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland star in Osgood Perkins' second horror feature of 2025.
STONE COLD FOX Review: Kiernan Shipka Stars in Retro '80s-Style Thriller
Moments into writer-director Sophie Tabet’s feature-length debut, Stone Cold Fox, the singularly named “Fox” (Kiernan Shipka, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Mad Men) of the title, stops time in mid-air kick and addresses the camera with a playful, tongue-in-cheek response, suggesting...
BURDEN OF DREAMS 4K Review: Werner Herzog vs. The Jungle
Les Blank's documentary, made with Maureen Gosling, magnificently captures a tale of a singular filmmaker's obsession. It's endlessly rewatchable.
