Indie Reviews
12 ANGRY MEN 4K Review: Crackling Legal Thriller, Trapped in a Single Room
Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, and Martin Balsam star in Sidney Lumet's feature film debut, now in 4K from The Criterion Collection.
BLACK ZOMBIE Review: Engaging, Insightful Work of Cultural Criticism
If Xavier Burgin's Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror is the equivalent of a survey course you might take freshman year at college, Maya Annik Bedward's Black Zombie is the kind of class you take junior year that makes...
ON A STRING Review: A Comedy Where Everyone Is a Judge and No One Is Very Happy
Isabel Hagen directs and stars in "a convincing picture of an unforgiving New York," also starring Dylan Baker, Eric Bogosian, Frederick Weller, and Jamie Lee.
FrightFest 2026 Review: ODDITIES, Adrienne Barbeau Gets the Wicked, Substantial Horror Role She Deserves
When two self-destructive best friends accidentally kill their drug dealer, they have to flee town. Stopping at a roadside antique shop, they quickly discover that the older woman running the place isn't as sweet as she seems.
FrightFest 2026 Review: HOME BODIES, Sibling Tension Rises in a Smart Home Trap
Two children, raised in total isolation by an automated house, begin to confront the mysteries of their existence after an enigmatic stranger arrives from outside.
ONSLAUGHT Review: Much Ado About Murder
A former soldier scarred by battlefield trauma fights to protect her home and her young daughter when three genetically enhanced killing machines escape from a lab and descend upon her remote desert trailer park in Adam Wingard’s semi-slasher, Onslaught. Celeste...
CHRONOVISOR Review: Book Detective Becomes Something More
Jack Auen and Kevin Walker's cerebral debut is about the greatest story never told.
-thumb-200x200-106496.jpg)
FrightFest 2026 Review: ITHAQUA, A Chilling Western Gothic Nightmare
Set in a harsh 1821 Canadian winter, the folk horror film Ithaqua follows the starving residents of an isolated fur-trading fort as they turn against each other and face a primordial, hunger-inducing creature.
BLUE SUNSHINE Remains a Hair-Raising Genre-Bender
Synapse Films brings two cult classic horror films home on 4K UHD.
FrightFest 2026 Review: In Korea-Set Horror NERVOUS, Sara Bolger Loses the Ability to Hear Men
The opening film at this year’s Tubi Frightfest London, Nervous is an ambitious psychological thriller set in the South Korean countryside. Irish actress Sarah Bolger reunites with director Abner Pastoll after the success of 2019’s A Good Woman is Hard...
BUDDY Review: Cringe Comedy Transforms Into Absurdist Horror
Casper Kelly directs Cristin Milioti, Delaney Quinn, Keegan-Michael Key, Jamie King, Michael Shannon and Topher Grace in a horror comedy.
Locarno 2026 Review: DESTROY ALL GIRLS, Freewheeling Skate-Punk Rebellion, With an Expiration Date
Erin Vassilopoulos' sophomore feature is a retro-styled skate odyssey whose authentic subcultural energy invigorates a familiar story.
Locarno 2026 Review: BLOODY TENNIS Serves Up a Blood-Soaked Sports-Horror Satire
Nikias Chryssos serves up a blood-soaked, darkly funny sports horror in which an elite tennis academy trains its aspiring champions through ritualized brutality.
JACOB'S LADDER: The Haunting Nightmare Comes Home on 4K UHD
'Jacob's Ladder' and 'The Devil's Rejects' get the Lionsgate Limited treatment with new 4K releases.
TONY Review: Linklaterian Warmth Wafts in on a Summer Breeze in Matt Johnson's Bourdain Biopic
Canadian prankster Matt Johnson grows up in a delightful coming-of-age origins story of Anthony Bourdain.
IT ENDS Review: Striking a Deep Chord
Alexander Ullom's existential thriller stars Mitchell Cole, Akira Jackson, Noah Toth, and Phinehas Yoon.
THE RIVALS OF AMZIAH KING Review: Crime and Comedy Collide in Oklahoma
Matthew McConaughey stars in the new film by Andrew Patterson ('The Vast of Night'), introducing Angelina LookingGlass and featuring Kurt Russell.
HELLCAT Review: No Direction Home
Dakota Gorman and Todd Terry star in writer/director Brock Bodell's thriller.
THE WRONG GIRLS Review: Stoner Caper Hits the Laughs and Love
Frankie (Kristen Stewart) was once a star engineering student at Stanford, until the pressure made her flunk out. Molly (Alia Shawkat) is an amazing and inventive chef whose personality is not suited to the high-pressure stakes of the contemporary restaurant...
Fantasia 2026 Review: THE GLORIOUS DEAD, When it is The End of The World But You Still Have to Clock in
On a cold, winter day, in rural America, It was supposed to be Sheriff Deb’s day off. But one of her deputies, Mikey, is knocking on her door early in the morning. The power is out. No one else has...
