Many of us can agree that 2026 has been a dark year, and the sights ahead only look dimmer. War, starvation, deportation, rising cost of…
Back when labels were willing to spend on them, music videos served as a legitimate pipeline for visual artists, places for them to cut their…
As InRO’s own Jake Tropila makes note of in his recent piece on the killer-shark-in-a-cave-movie The Devil’s Mouth, “shark movies have been seemingly omnipresent all year”;…
It’s a shame I had to see Kent Jones’ Willem Dafoe vehicle, Late Fame, on the Upper West Side at NYFF in mid-September. It was…
“There is a hole in the lake where the movies come from” is one of those incredible lines that Teenage Sex and Death at Camp…
The quaint and rustic settlement of Sangerhausen, in Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt, might have been an incidental choice of setting, but much of Julian Radlmaier’s quietly revelatory…
In this dispatch: Unholy Night…
For introverts and the unaccomplished, the greatest threat looming over every family gathering isn’t the unlikely prospect of mass violence, but an all too conscious…
It’s all too easy to feel at home in Casey Walker’s Home Bodies. Red (Emma Ho) and Blue (Ian Ho) have lived all their days in…
Akira Nagai’s Suzuki=Bakudan is a police procedural in which nearly every consequential movement begins with a man sitting at a table. Tagosaku Suzuki (Jiro Sato),…
Canadian perversion has always held a firm grip on our self-narrativization, the violent alienation of our national identities always sought after in reconciliation. Most often,…
There is something about horror maestro Takashi Shimizu’s The Mouths that feels as foundational as myth. The film’s premise is simple enough: a group of university-aged…
While Hostel (2005) and Hostel: Part II (2007) are the immediate poster children for Eli Roth’s work as a horror director, his debut Cabin Fever…
Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke is a delight, a playful formalist in a sea of self-serious festival auteurs. But because comedy is often viewed askance by…
Lou Diamond Phillips, now over 40 years into his acting career, has quietly become one of our more reliable screen performers. His big break came…
Thomas Kail’s live-action Moana retains the 2016 animated film’s narrative and musical architecture so faithfully that the change of medium amounts largely to a substitution…
30 years ago, Ngozi Onwurah made history by becoming the first Black female filmmaker in Britain to have a film released theatrically. As she’ll tell…
In this dispatch: Colony, Someone\’s…
Third verse, same as the first. Yeon Sang-ho’s 2016 rage-zombie opus Train to Busan was a breakout it, largely because of its relentless pace and…
At best, Wiebke von Carolsfeld’s Someone’s Daughter can be described as well-intentioned. Critically, however, it is existentially foolhardy and morally naive. Carrying a juvenile sort…
In Mark H. Rapaport’s Godhead, the world would seem to start and end between the walls of the church. In fact, this specific church commands…