All My Friends Hate Me’s off-kilter framework is both a blessing and curse, but there’s an abrasive charm for those willing to play its…
Ultrasound is appealing in spurts but frustratingly sticks to a safe middle ground where it could have stood to be messier. Rob Schroeder’s Ultrasound exists…
Asking for It is a cheap and muddled affront to the women it seeks to foreground. Asking for It, the debut feature from writer-director Eamon…
Mother Schmuckers is sub-John Waters more-busting that fails to understand the essential appeal of its inspirational touchstone. American audiences encountering the Belgian gross-out comedy Mother…
The Desperate Hour is such a shrug of a film that it isn’t even worth considering the potentially offensive exploitation of its conceit. With…
Studio 666 is an obvious labor of love for Grohl and co., but one that delivers neither the necessary horror or comedy of its fan-service…
A Banquet is atmospherically impressive for its first two acts, but doesn’t quite know how to stick the landing. The decision to eat or…
The Cursed is blessed with beautiful images but is otherwise plagued by an overly familiar werewolf narrative. Why’s it so hard to make a…
King Knight sets its sight on targets as broad as a barn, but somehow still misses. Writer-director Richard Bates Jr. made a bit of a…
Blacklight is a low point in Neeson’s tough-guy thriller canon. At some point in the latest Liam Neeson product Blacklight, our hero, a stoic FBI…
Catch the Fair One doesn’t quite pull off its untidy ending, but it’s still an impressive bit of viscerally and emotionally pummeling cinema. Integrating the…
Here Before suggests early promise, but ultimately settles into rote psycho-thriller styling and manipulative table-setting. Stacey Gregg’s Here Before has all the markers of a…
The Other Me amounts to little more than an empty spectacle banking on David Lynch’s name. Let’s get it out of the way: the most…
There’s some mild fun to be had with Last Looks’ particular soft noir style, but it ultimately registers as a pale imitation of something you’ve…
The Last Thing Mary Saw is sedate bit of moody horror that takes an array of cinematic reference points and flattens them until there’s…
Shattered is a sleazy erotic thriller knockoff, one that never realizes its camp potential but which boasts a few poor-taste pleasures along the way. Hidden…
Although it doesn’t quite stick the landing, See For Me is still a precise, no-frills genre exercise that makes the most of its limited budget…
There’s plenty to admire in The Novice, but a surfeit of ambition and an overreliance on certain aggressive formal qualities bogs down its execution.…