International Reviews
DEAR YOU Review: Chinese Box Office Dark Horse, Built on Sincerity
For the Chinese film market, this year seems to be a great year for low-budget films. Unlike the recent low-budget box-office hit and "global sensation" Niu Lai, which has been compared to the Chinese version of The Room, Dear You...
CHRONOVISOR Review: Book Detective Becomes Something More
Jack Auen and Kevin Walker's cerebral debut is about the greatest story never told.
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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.
FILIPIÑANA Review: Rafael Manuel's Feature Redefines Must-See Filmmaking
There’s a moment in writer-director Rafael Manuel’s often brilliant, always enthralling feature debut, Filipiñana, an expansion of his award-winning 2021 short, where Clara (Carmen Castellanos), the American-born-and-raised niece of a wealthy Filipino businessman, Renato (Carlitos Siguion-Reyna), refuses to bend —...
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...
COLONY Review: Radical, Exciting Zombie Thriller
Director Yeon Song-ho ('Train to Busan') breaks all the rules. Gianna Jun and Koo Kyo-hwan star.
Locarno 2026 Review: THE RIVERBANK Turns Queer Desire Into a Defiant Neo-Noir
Brazilian filmmakers Enock Carvalho and Matheus Farias make an atmospheric feature debut with a slow-burning queer neo-noir that pits intimacy and solidarity against the murderous politics of the militarized religious right.
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: ROMA ELASTICA Cannibalizes the Myth of the Movie Star in a Delirious Cinephile Phantasmagoria
Marion Cotillard stars in Bertrand Mandico's a surrealistic tribute to golden age actresses, celluloid cinema and Italian culture.
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.
HOT SPOT Review: Memorable Visuals, But Not Enough Story or Noomi Rapace
Andrzej Konopka and Noomi Rapace star in director Agnieszka Smoczyńska's sci-fi thriller.
DER FAN Returns with a 4K Restoration Vengeance
It’s been a long time since I’ve heard hushed whispers of the subversive German thriller, Der Fan. Written and directed by the late West German provocateur Eckhart Schmidt, this film was never banned formally, more so shunned due to both...
John Woo's BULLET IN THE HEAD Gets a Beautiful 4K Release from Imprint Asia
John Woo's classic 'Bullet in the Head' and the horror film 'Face to Face' are new from Imprint Asia.
MUTINY Review: Statham Hews to Formula in Human Trafficking Thriller
Jason Statham, Annabelle Wallis, Roland Møller, and Adrian Lester star in the action thriller, directed by Jean-François Richet.
FRANZ Review: Embracing an Incomplete Life
Director Agnieszka Holland's film is a biopic of the iconic Franz Kafka, portrayed by Idan Weiss.
THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE Review: Wholesome Family Adventure Movie Will Make You Look Up From Your Phones and Into the Real World
Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy star in Ben Gregor's magical children's film.
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY Review: Willem Dafoe Cuts Imposing Figure as Tyrannical Greek Oligarch
When Patrikios (Christos Stergioglou), onetime/longtime physician to Marcos Timoleon (Willem Dafoe), an Aristotle Onassis-inspired Greek titan of industry and all-around oligarch, casually suggests the latter’s resemblance behavior-wise to Marlon Brando’s title character in The Godfather, Marcos laughs, instead suggesting the...
KUNG FU SOCCER Review: Stephen Chow's Dreadful All-Female Sequel Deserves a Straight Red Card
Twenty five years after scoring a resounding critical and commercial hit with the martial arts sports comedy Shaolin Soccer, Hong Kong film industry legend Stephen Chow unleashes an absolute howler of a sequel that fails to replicate anything that made...
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...
TRAIN TO BUSAN Review: Plunging Into Zombie Chaos
Directed by Yeon Sang-ho, the zombie thriller, remastered and revived, stars Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, and Kin Su-an.
