Indie Reviews
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.
CORONER TO THE STARS Review: The Story Behind the Most Controversial Chief Medical Examiner of All Time
It’s said that everyone’s life is a story. And naturally, every story has an ending. Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the titular “coroner to the stars,” as he’s been called, knows about both aspects of the story. Quite expertly, though far from simply. Having...
DIE, MY LOVE Review: Shaking the Bars of the Not-So-Gilded Cage. Then Setting the Cage on Fire.
Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, and Sissy Spacek star in Lynne Ramsay's explosive vision of a woman oppressed.
HALLOW ROAD / VINCENT MUST DIE Halloween Double Feature Review
Both films play together, exclusively at AMC Theatres, via XYZ Films, tomorrow. Visit the official site for locations and showtimes. A tragic accident, a terrified teenage girl, a pair of panicked parents, and a long lonely road in the woods...
HOUSE OF ASHES Review: Uneasiness Prevails in Topical, Poignant Chamber Horror
Izzy Lee wrote, directed and produced the chilling indie horror, starring Fayna Sanchez.
BONE LAKE Review: Sex and Violence. Sex and Violence.
Maddie Hasson, Alex Roe, Andra Nechita, and Marco Pigossi star in director Mercedes Bryce Morgan's steamy thriller.
SHELBY OAKS Review: Twisty Folk Horror. Kind Of.
Twelve years ago, YouTuber Riley Brennan went missing. When, after a long dry spell, a seemingly related tragedy lands on the doorstep of her sister Mia, the rescue mission restarts in debutante director Chris Stuckmann’s Shelby Oaks. Chris Stuckmann is one...
Morelia 2025 Review: LA GLORIA, Texas Rancher Swept Up in Immigration Crisis
David Morse, Jaklyn Bejarano and Bill Heck star in J.T. Walker's film.
Toronto After Dark 2025 Short Film Short Review: CLOWN SONG Is A Banger
The sinister clown is a timeless trope of cinema and pulp horror and real life - from David Lynch to Rob Zombie, Álex de la Iglesia to Bobcat Goldthwait, and Stephen King to John Wayne Gacy. Taking the ever-loving piss...
Brooklyn Horror 2025 Review: CAMP, Avalon Fast's Dreamy, Spellbound-by-Grief Sophomore Feature
Grief clings to us like smoke; no matter how far we walk, its scent lingers. Emily (Zola Grimmer) knows this too well. At 16, she struck and killed a young girl who ran in front of her car. Years later,...
Toronto After Dark 2025 Review: THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM, Chills and Melancholy in The Swiss Alps
Seen wandering through the grim fog and pale moonlit wilderness of the Swiss Alps as a tiny speck among the trees and rocks, a man (Don McKellar) reaches his isolated hotel destination only to find there are no rooms available...
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