International Reviews
KONTINENTAL '25 Review: Escalating Into Crisis, Guilt, and Complicity
Eszter Tompa stars in Radu Jude's provocative drama.
THE BLADE 4K Review: Tsui Hark's Dark, Grimy, Kinetic, Chaotic Classic
Wither wuxia? Tsui Hark's martial arts action-adventure thrills and chills.
YES Review: Singing Bootlicker Blues
Nadav Lapid's searing satire stars Ariel Bronz and Efrat Dor. It's obnoxiously pointy and honest, yet sad.
Spotlight on Severin: EXORCISMO, Christopher Lee Eurocrypt Box Sets
Plus: 4K upgrades of 'The Ghost,' 'The Final Programme,' 'The Devil's Rain,' and 'Retribution.'
DREAMS Review: How an Impossible Cross-Class Romance Dismantles the American Dream
Jessica Chastain, paired with newcomer Isaac Hernández, reunites with Michel Franco for their second collaboration.
Thessaloniki 2026 Review: CANDIDATES OF DEATH, Homemade Horror from Poland
A long-term experiment in filmmaking, Candidates of Death started almost 20 years ago when documentarian Maciej Cuske took his son Stasiu and his friends Rafal and Adrian on a vacation. Friends since kindergarten, the three youths were fans of horror...
TWO PROSECUTORS Review: Horror in a Bureaucratic Hell
Sergei Loznitsa's newest film stars Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Alexander Filippenko, and Anatoli Beliy.
MIROIRS NO. 3 Review: Compact and Masterful, with Affecting Performances
Christian Petzold's film stars Paula Beer, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt, and Enno Trebs.
LATE SHIFT Review: Nursing Care Under an Overwhelming Workload
Leonie Benesch delivers a restrained yet striking performance in Petra Volpe's unsparingly realist feature.
THE POUT-POUT FISH Review: Sheer Delight Under the Sea
Nick Offerman, Nina Oyama, and Mirando Otto star, with Jordin Sparks and Amy Sedaris, in an Australian animated family film.
SXSW 2026 Review: THE FOX, Jai Courtney Talks To The Animals In DANGER 5 Creator's Feature Debut
When easygoing Nick (Jai Courtney) encounters a talking fox who offers him a way to fix his ailing relationship with his fiancée, he takes a drastic step that will change everything about the world around him in The Fox, the...
SXSW 2026 Review: HOKUM, Be Very Afraid Of Damian McCarthy's Latest
In 2024 Damian McCarthy lit up the horror world with his quietly terrifying Oddity, a film I reviewed for its SXSW world premiere, and while it was topping year end horror lists left and right, I was a bit less...
SXSW 2026 Review: NEVER AFTER DARK, A Ravishingly Horrific Ghost Story With A Twist
A traveling psychic medium who specializes in clearing unwanted spirits arrives at a remote Japanese hotel to take on her most unexpected and dangerous challenge yet in Dave Boyle’s ravishingly dark ghost story, Never After Dark. Airi (Moeka Hoshi) makes...
SXSW 2026 Review: Aussie Horror DEAD EYES Is A First Person Nightmare
A weekend couples’ excursion the Australian woods goes hellishly awry in director Richard E. Williams’s experimental POV horror, Dead Eyes, premiering this week at SXSW in Austin, Texas. Sean (Rijen Laine) and his fiancée Grace (Ana Thu Nguyen) are meeting...
Berlinale 2026 Review: TRACES Follows Survivor Networks Documenting Wartime Sexual Violence
Ukrainian filmmaker Alisa Kovalenko, working with co-director Marysia Nikitiuk, examines the documentation of conflict-related sexual violence during Russia's war against Ukraine through the work of survivor and activist Iryna Dovhan.
Berlinale 2026 Review: LUST Constructs a Minimalist Chamber Study of Authority and Desire
Bulgarian director Ralitza Petrova's sophomore feature continues her examination of individuals shaped by institutional structures, shifting the focus toward a more contained study of psychological control and personal disintegration.
Berlinale 2026 Review: WHERE TO? Turns Late-Night Rides Into a Study of Intimacy and Displacement
Israeli director Assaf Machnes' debut feature unfolds as a dialogue driven chamber piece set within Berlin's nocturnal rideshare circuits.
VIRIDIANA Blu-ray Review: Revelations Over Last Suppers
Luis Buñuel understands the significance of supper. This evening meal, when family and/or friends gather to share the stories of the day, when time can stretch out, ideas discussed, philosophies debated, and ties renewed, it's an event where the bodily...
BODYCAM Review: The Most Terrifying Episode of COPS You'll Ever See
Directed by Brandon Chirstensen, 'Cops' meets 'Paranormal Activity' in this new Shudder horror movie.
Berlinale 2026 Review: Porn and Gen Z Intimacy Clashes in Sweet Coming-of-Age TRULY NAKED
Muriel d'Ansembourg's feature debut Truly Naked examines adolescence and sexual education through the unlikely setting of a small family-run pornography business, framing a Gen Z coming-of-age story around competing ideas of intimacy, masculinity, and agency.
