Some action movies are best watched in the afternoon, the way they used to be shown on American television in the days before infomercials…
Let’s just get this out of the way: the most honest way to quantify Alex Lehmann’s Acidman is as thoroughly mid. The film stars…
Film boasts a rich history of dance. From the halcyon, mid-century years of studio musicals all the way to the early-aughts onslaught of middling,…
Zhang Lu has proved a unique presence in 21st-century film: A Korean-Chinese literary intellectual of the 1980s who became a little-known cult figure in…
Helmut Dosantos’ feature debut, Gods of Mexico, is an ethereal work of observation, informing tonality through compositional rigor, the beauty on display siphoned into…
What do a master spy, an ornithologist, and a bunch of regular dudes from around the world have in common? That’s the premise of…
Israeli filmmaker Hadas Ben Aroya’s second feature film, All Eyes Off Me, offers a naturalistic glimpse into Israel’s contemporary youth culture as it shifts…
When it comes to metaphorical expressions, perhaps no other narrative and visual motif can provide a sense of boundless liberation and spiritual freedom as…
Spanish-language filmmaker Ruth Caudeli has developed a surprisingly consistent and quantifiable body of work in the past few years. Her films are relatively plotless,…
Immediately following its brief and overly familiar introduction, wherein an unrecognizable monster attacks a fishing boat from the deep, Jason Eisener’s Kids vs. Aliens…
From a certain angle, 2022 could be seen as the year of satire. There spectrum was vast, from the “high-brow,” like Ruben Östlund’s Palme…
The past invades the future in Paul Owens’ Landlocked, a low-budget, minimalist horror drama that’s steeped in the nostalgic haze of VHS grain and…
If the recent High Heat represents a kind of floor for a DTV genre work — some perfect okay action courtesy of a game…
We’ve frequently proselytized for the relative value of the DTV action-thriller here at InRO, but the truth of the matter is that, more often…
In her overview of lesbian-feminist criticism, Bonnie Zimmerman urged lesbian critics to look into “what has been unspoken and barely imagined” in order to…
Bar Fight! manages the impressive feat of being entirely unfunny for the whole of its runtime. The graveyard of sitcom stars who attempted a…
Falun Gong deserves a more rigorous and sophisticated defense than the templated, trend-chasing Eternal Spring is able to mount for it. For a film…
The Inhabitant somehow takes axe slayings as a primary plot point and makes the whole thing boring and self-serious. The horrific true-life tale of axe-wielding…