Superficial and hopelessly outdated, The School for Good and Evil will leave fantasy fans better off clinging to Harry Potter reruns. For the legions of Harry Potter fans…
Ticket to Paradise is an entirely charmless rom-com fronted by a poisonous couple and sleepwalking its way through bland genre tropes. How hard could it possibly…
Aftersun evokes the rending nostalgia of Terence Davies, lensing a father-daughter story through quiet, melancholic remembrance. Memories are fragile; they weather with time, fray around the…
Despite its slightness, Slash/Back still proves a diverting, charming girl power romp. Nyla Innuksuk’s Slash/Back opens to the singular vocal stylings of Inuk throat singer Tanya…
V/H/S/99 is probably the biggest film in the series, mostly eschewing scares in favor of stylistic intensity. Almost a year to the day after 2021’s V/H/S/94,…
The Stranger’s palpable atmosphere can prove meandering, even if it crafts fascinating and nuanced characters out of its leads’ performances. Set in the bleak Australian outskirts,…
All That Breathes offers a cogent diagnosis of our climate change predicament, suggesting a tentative hope for the future while recognizing the untenability of the…
Rimini possesses a frigid sociological potency whose disparate elements capture a stratified generation’s cultural and libidinal imaginary. The curtain doesn’t quite fall in wintry Rimini,…
Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday delivers the violence, direct-to-video. Remember Accident Man? It’s OK if you don’t, but DTV actionheads tend to think of it fondly…
The Banshees of Inisherin benefits from its lead characters’ unconventional dynamic, thoughtfully examining the ways in which individuals navigate the nuances of life within their…
In the Court of the Crimson King thrives as an unbiased tribute film, keen in its documentation of the professional and personal spheres of various…
Halloween Ends is a superior to film to Halloween Kills, and that’s essentially where the praise ends. Let’s be clear about one thing right off…
Peter Hedges brings his typical schtick to The Same Storm, getting off to a rocky start but ultimately getting somewhere heartwarming enough. Is there any filmmaker…
The Eternal Daughter “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by…
At this point, there have been so many movies about Covid, either directly or by inference, that it’s barely necessary to make a note of…
What is the opposite of a Golden Age? That term, usually attributed to a civilization’s growth and stability in market and cultural forces, may not…
Michael Snow’s Wavelength still stands as the prototypical “experimental film” — perhaps the one experimental work that film studies professors will continue selecting as a stand-in for the miscellany…
Lebanese filmmaker Ali Cherri has been a bit of a fixture on the festival circuit with his wry, melancholy short works addressing the state of the Arab world.…
Dark Glasses ends Argento’s decade-long hiatus and even longer stretch of mediocre works with a return to form for the Italian master. It’s been a…
Ballerini’s latest leans into her strength as a writer, and builds upon her previous works in a welcome fashion. Subject to Change is country singer-songwriter…