International Reviews
PARADISE LOST Review: Yeon Sang-ho's Thriller About AI's Role in Grief Is More Underwhelming Than Thought-Provoking
Director Yeon Sang-ho ('Train to Busan') doesn't make the most of some interesting and timely ideas in his latest film.
Morbido 2026 Review: LA MANCHA (YOU'RE IT), García Bogliano Brothers Unite Powers for Unconventional, Experimental Playground Terror
Inside an amusement park, a group of children and teenagers become trapped in a dark curse connecting them to a parallel world.
Morbido 2026 Review: TALKING TO A STRANGER, Gigi Saul Guerrero Shines in a Distressing Maternal Nightmare
Consumed by prescription pills and overwhelming guilt after a tragic house fire kills her young son, a grieving mother becomes the prey of a demonic entity that takes the boy's face to fracture her family.
GODZILLA MINUS ZERO Review: Bigger, Badder, Sadder, And Louder Than Ever
In 2023, director Takashi Yamazaki reinvigorated the long-running Godzilla film series with Godzilla Minus One, a complete reimagining of the iconic character and its origins that floored audiences and critics alike. With a human story that explored the lingering fallout...
Kino Chases Italian Thrills with New ITALO-CRIME 4K Release
Plus more descents into criminal behavior from KL Studio Classics! -- Walter Hill's 'Johnny Handsome,' 'Tomas Alfredson's 'The Snowman,' and James Dearden's 'A Kiss Before Dying.'
NEW GROUP Review: The Horrors of Falling in Line
Yuzu Aoki and Anna Yamada star in director Yûta Shimotsu's film, heading for Shudder.
WILD HORSE NINE Review: Colorful and Beautiful, Yet Bloody Ephemeral
Writer/director Martin McDonagh's latest film stars John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Mariana di Girolamo, Ailín Salas, with Tom Waits and Parker Posey.
György Pálfi's HEN Review: Cackling All the Way
Director György Pálfi's new provocation stars Ioannis Kokiasmenos, Maria Diakopanagioti, and Argyris Pantazaras. The language(s)? "Greek, Cackling."
Busan 2026 Review: INHERIT, Seductive Thai Insect Horror
Director Banjong Pisanthanakun's thriller stars Davika Hoorne and Thitiya Jirapornsilp. (Watch the trailer.)
Made in Prague 2026 Review: LITTLE THIEF, Brisk, Assured Small-Town Heist Comedy
Czech filmmaker Ondřej Hudeček's brisk Moravian heist comedy turns pandemic-era insurance fraud into a small-town Robin Hood story, mixing regional farce with sympathy for its flawed hustlers.
QUEEN AT SEA Review: A Masterclass in Acting, Writing, and Directing
Returning to feature-film filmmaking after an altogether too long 18-year hiatus, writer-director Lance Hammer’s (Ballast) drama, Queen at Sea, revolves around an incredibly difficult, nearly impossible end-of-life decision. As Leslie’s (Anna Calder-Marshall) dementia robs her of her mind, memory,...
CLOSURE Review: Grief and Hope Entwine in This Powerful, Beautiful Doc
A film by Michał Marczak.
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: SPLIT ROCK Explores the Horrors of Nature
Clark Backo and Drew Ray Tanner encounter horror in the desert, courtesy of director Ryan Glover.
WELCOME II THE TERRORDOME Blu-ray Review: Contemporary, Raging Folklore Restored
It took until (the shamefully late year of) 1994 for the first independent feature film by a Black Britsh woman got a theatrical release. But when it finally happened, Welcome II The Terrordome was worth the wait. A film that deftly combined...
THE DEADLY SPAWN 4K Review
There’s a vast spectrum of cinema to love out there, from pre-Code salaciousness, to grimy grindhouse flicks, to the masters of film in the Criterion Collection. Today, I’m to review one of the more indie, DIY movies to come out...
GHOST IN THE CELL Review: Joko Anwar's Prison-Set Horror Comedy Is a Gory Riot. On Digital Tomorrow.
Dimas, an investigative reporter from Jakarta, is trying to finish an edit on a deforestation expose when he is framed for his editor's horrific murder and tossed into prison. He ends up in the rough Cell Block C, where he...
KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS Review: One of 2026's Best Films Was Released 55 Years Ago
[Uncensored, restored, and rereleased, Ken Russell’s The Devils, a controversy-courting masterpiece of religious horror, repression, and persecution, returns for a limited theatrical run under the auspices of Warner Bros. and its Clockwork specialty film division.] Condemned in 1971 for its...
A TALENT FOR MURDER Review: Mirren and Ehrenreich Elevate an Otherwise Middling Psychological Thriller
Over five decades, Patricia Highsmith wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories. Of those singular works, seven stand out in the popular imagination: the five Ripley-centered novels, Strangers on a Train (published in 1950 and adapted by Alfred Hitchcock...
Chicago 2026 Review: NO REST FOR THE WICKED, Beautiful Genre Mashup Queer Romance
For almost the first half of No Rest for the Wicked, the only thing marking it as a genre movie is its score, full of ominous electronic drones and sharp strings. The look, with foreboding aerial shots of the Faroe...
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: POSTHUMOUS, Tapes from the Darkside
Throughout the years, such films as Wolf Creek, The Babadook, The Loved Ones, Lake Mungo, Talk to Me, and many others collectively contributed to turning the audience into a proverbial Pavlov’s dog: A new Australian horror movie is always a...
