International Features
Opening This Week: Indies Dominate, While Luck and Fun Battle Love
'Crime 101,' 'Sweetness,' 'Broken Bird,' 'Cold Storage,' 'By Design,' and 'The Mortuary Assistant' compete with two wide releases.
Now Playing: THE INFINITE HUSK, PILLION, JIMPA, More
Plus: Luc Besson's 'Dracula' and Renny Harlin's 'The Strangers: Chapter 3.'
Friday One Sheet: Calgary Underground Film Festival 2026
Western Canada's ever-expanding genre extravaganza, the Calgary Underground Film Festival (or CUFF for short) has put out its key art in anticipation of its April 16th launch. In keeping with its maximalist underground comix design ethos, and always using a...
Echoes: How Young and Veteran Filmmakers in Pakistan Differ in Style and Storytelling
Pakistani cinema has been shaped by both veteran and emerging filmmakers, whose contrasting approaches to style and storytelling define the industry today. While pioneers worked within technical and structural constraints to establish cinematic traditions, the new generation is pushing boundaries...
Opening This Week: Luc Besson's DRACULA, Renny Harlin's THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 3
Plus: Aaron Silverstein's 'The Infinite Husk,' Alexander Skarsgard in 'Pillion,' Olivia Colman and John Lithgow in 'Jimpa.'
Sundance 2026 Wrap: We Came, We Saw, We Reviewed
Updated as of February 9, 2026. As our own Ryland Aldrich noted in his wonderful essay, Ryland's Musings From Two Decades of Sundance, the Sundance Film Festival celebrated its final edition in Park City, Utah, with a bang -- and...
Now Playing: SEND HELP, ARCO, SHELTER, BACK TO THE PAST
Plus: 'July Rhapsody,' 'The Love That Remains,' 'Islands,' 'Bitter Rice,' 'The Moment,' 'A Poet.'
Friday One Sheet: CRIME 101, And Character Work
A gritty-glossy (and subtly distressed) series of character posters dropped recently for Bart Layton's (The Imposter)'s adaptation of Don Winslow's (The Savages) heist potboiler about literal highway robbery, Crime 101, in anticipation of its February release. Framed in ultra close-up,...
Echoes: Why Is It Hard to Make a Good Pakistani Film? Is the Asian Market to Blame?
The Pakistani film industry is a budding industry that has a fragile infrastructure, high production costs relative to low box-office returns, and scarcity of screens, which has led the audience to rely more on TV-style narratives. Good storylines in TV...
Opening This Week: Sam Raimi's SEND HELP, Ann Hui's JULY RHAPSODY, Much More
Plus: 'The Love That Remains,' 'Islands,' 'Shelter,' 'Bitter Rice,' 'The Moment,' 'Arco,' 'Back to the Past,' 'A Poet.'
Friday One Sheet: FIUME O MORTE!
In his review from Rotterdam (where the film won the FIPRESCI Prize & Tiger Award), our own Martin Kudlac described Fiume O Morte! as, "A playful, warning look at history [...] an exploration of collective memory and the reconstruction of historical narratives at...
Echoes: Why Do Pakistani Films Fail to Attract Audiences, Compared To Series?
Over the past decade, the Pakistani audience's taste has changed dramatically, and by dramatically, I mean the audience's attention steadily shifted to television "dramas." Pakistan's entertainment landscape has undergone a noticeable transformation as viewers now prefer television series that have...
Opening This Week: MERCY, RETURN TO SILENT HILL, DOOBA DOOBA, IN COLD LIGHT, THE WELL
Plus: John Woo's classic 'Hard Boiled,' in special limited engagements.
Now Playing: 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE Rules in Blood
Plus: 'Night Patrol,' 'Space/Time,' 'Killer Whale,' 'All You Need Is Kill,' 'A Private Life,' 'Sound of Falling,' 'Maldoror.'
Friday One Sheet: WUTHERING HEIGHTS
After some rather underwhelming key art for Emerald (Saltburn) Fennell's upcoming adaptation of Bronte's cult-lit classic, Wuthering Heights, the character posters come through with a cold and tactile pair of character posters. I have highlighted Margot Robbie's Catherine Earnshaw here...
Opening This Week: 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE, NIGHT PATROL, SPACE/TIME, KILLER WHALE
Plus: 'All You Need Is Kill,' 'A Useful Ghost,' 'A Private Life,' 'Sound of Falling,' 'Maldoror.'
Now Playing: OBEX Delights, ALL THAT'S LEFT OF YOU Makes Choices
Also opening: 'Primate,' 'Greenland 2: Migration,' and 'Young Mothers' from the Dardennes Brothers.
Friday One Sheet: REMNANTS
This is the third time we have featured design house The Robot Eye in this column. Here, for Michael Catenacci's 23-minute short film around ranchers and environmental devastation, Remnants, we have the incongruent image of the noble cowboy in the foggy...
European Film Awards 2026 Preview: SIRĀT Holds the Strongest Position in This Year's Race
This year's European Film Awards field crystallises around a European cinema defined by emotional precision and formal confidence.
Opening This Week: PRIMATE Monkey Terror, OBEX Lo-Fi Charms, GREENLAND 2: MIGRATION Gerard Butler Action
Plus: 'All That's Left Is You.'
