Dangerous is content to ride its plateaued production structure of cribbed parts to the territory of who cares. When speaking of Dangerous, it’s difficult to not make…
Freeland stumbles when it feels compelled to inject arbitrary conflict, but is an otherwise sturdy, necessarily cynical portrait of modern economic peril. The legalization of recreational…
Warning: Warning is an absolute disaster. An existential slice of sci-fi, Warning is the kind of film that practically begs for a thorough post-mortem. It’s quite…
Val suggests talent behind the camera, but it’s largely wasted on a wisp of an idea. There’s a deep, dark mystery at the heart of director…
Minyan is a delicate film of subtle power, smartly weaving several threads into a rich coming-of-age portrait. Set in 1980s New York, Eric Steel’s Minyan is…
What We Left Unfinished never moves past the basic work of archivalism. 1921. 1989. 2021. The cycles of imperial superpowers invading, occupying, and summarily abandoning Afghanistan…
Whirlybird ultimately disappoints with its own kind of bland journalism. Charting the professional milestones and personal travails of Zoey Tur and Marika Gerrard, the dynamic partners…
American Sausage Standoff is even more asinine than its title suggests. The first question that must be asked of American Sausage Standoff has to be: what…
The minor miracle of Playing God is that it somewhat works despite its obviously stupid conceit. One would be forgiven for mistaking the new con artist dramedy…
Blood Conscious is a low-key horror charmer that mostly succeeds on the strength of its clever manipulations. Blood Conscious, the debut feature from writer-director-editor Timothy Covell,…
Can You Bring It is a sumptuous, intelligent work about the beauty and infinity of the creative process. Following the evolution of the titular groundbreaking…
Broken Diamonds at least steers clear of the offensive depictions that sink so many schizophrenia flicks, but it doesn’t rise much above this low bar.…
Rock, Paper and Scissors starts off beguilingly odd, but fails to ever realize its genre potency and soon falls into wheel-spinning. There’s something very wrong…
The Man with the Answers aims for restraint but instead fails to either properly probe or articulate its characters. A well-meaning and tentative entrant into…
Long Story Short is occasionally pretty to look at but otherwise gruelingly repetitive and dull. From the guy that played Kano in this year’s Mortal…
Unlike its subjects, Rebel Hearts is too conventional and not daring enough. Uplifting and unashamedly radical, Rebel Hearts, the sophomore effort from Pedro Kos, traces…
Despite clearly belonging to a lineage of oddball, lo-fi comedy, A Dim Valley still marks itself as a unique contribution. Shot through a gauzy haze,…
The hare-brained Queen of Spades rides a wave of stale familiarity to miserable results. For viewers whose formative years have nourished the clickbait addiction of…
Sublet is yet another delicate, moving slice of cinema from one of the world’s preeminent queer chroniclers. Israeli filmmaker Eytan Fox has made a career…
The Evil Next Door forgoes character development and clever plotting in an effort to manufacture cheap scares. Is there anything more boring than a competent,…