M3GAN wasn’t born — or built, or whatever — to play it safe. Gerard Johnstone’s 2022 tech-toy horror is, charitably, a good time, the sort…
Dale Dickey is a beloved veteran character actor, having enjoyed a career that spans over 30 years of consistent, quality work. Typically inhabiting the souls…
Filmmakers Will Howarth and Tom McKeith are walking a fine line with their new feature film In Vitro, a low-key dramatic thriller that incorporates horror-tinged…
Mani Ratnam is considered one of India’s finest directors, particularly among those working in the Tamil language, and is coming off a two-part critical and…
Killing Mary Sue defines the term “Mary Sue” thusly: “A character, usually a young woman, who is often portrayed as inexplicably competent across all domains…
For fans of a certain kind of action movie, Diablo is one of the most anticipated releases of 2025. It marks the sixth collaboration between…
The rousing action epic may seem, in the age of bloated superhero flicks and video game adaptations, a thing of cinema’s past. If, for example,…
Comparisons to Everything Everywhere All at Once seem inevitable in the early buzz on Yang Li’s Escape from the 21st Century. The TIFF program guide…
Much has been made about the terror of the deep blue sea and its inhabitants, and the shark movie in particular is a genre unto…
I Don’t Understand You, directed and written by married couple Brian Crano and David Joseph Craig, continually cashes in on the promise of its title.…
Despite William Friedkin’s best efforts to shut the door on the subject over 50 years ago, religious horror tales of demonic possession persist, with many…
John Maclean’s first feature, the grimy, spare Western Slow West, established him as a clever manipulator of genre tropes, and capable of stretching a trim…
Kazakh filmmaker Adilkhan Yerzhanov has directed 15 films in the last 12 years, a breakneck pace to rival even Hong Sang-soo. Not many seem to…
Central to Danny and Michael Philippou’s Talk to Me was the idea that the universe doesn’t play fair. In horror movies, promethean punishments are doled…
Credit where it’s due: Hurry Up Tomorrow is the sort of fiasco that Canadian pop superstar The Weeknd has been concertedly building toward over several…
Given a title like The Old Woman with the Knife, viewers will likely enter expecting to see an old woman killing people with a knife.…
There are so few solid, meat-and-potatoes American action films every year that get studio resources and an actual theatrical release that one is almost tempted…
It’s a great time to be a Josh Hartnett fan. The actor has enjoyed a considerable career resurgence as of late, delivering a memorable supporting…
One of the more compelling elements of the crime film occurs when a seemingly normal person gets roped into a series of illicit acts or…
Alternating between icky-squishy horror, fish-out-of-water comedy, and doppelgänger abstraction, director Kourtney Roy’s Kryptic certainly lives up to its title. If the whole thing ultimately feels…