Mickey Reece makes idiosyncratic, uncategorizable films, chamber horror Agnes is his best film to date. Prolific Oklahoma underground filmmaker Mickey Reece is out there blowing up…
The Flight Before Christmas is another inventive, droll effort from the Aardman team, imbuing their familiar stylings with a little misty-eyed holiday cheer. One might…
The latest entry into the “quarantine art” canon, Project Space 13 is just another empty film with nothing substantive to say about our present…
More poodle than Wolf, Biancheri’s film is a frustratingly tame and conservative treatment of potentially fascinating material. Ten years ago, a film like Wolf would…
The Humans isn’t a subtle film, but mostly impresses thanks to surprising formal chops from playwright-turned-director Stephen Karam. In a millennium relatively lacking in original…
Castle Falls isn’t the DTV flick of the year that it’s inspired pairing teases, but its a solid little actioner that doesn’t overstay its welcome.…
Single All the Way is as delightful and infectious as Hallmark-styled holiday films should be, and marks Netflix’s first such success in his arena. Netflix’s…
As far as holiday traditions go, advent calendar are pretty lame; The Advent Calendar is lamer. Break out your horror premise Bingo cards, because if you…
Welcome to Raccoon City is a deeply faithful Resident Evil adaptation, and a deeply bad one at that. If there’s a guiding principle to Resident Evil: Welcome…
Flee is inoffensive and sweet enough, but also a totally blunt object that fails muster much actual power under the influence of its overt messaging.…
Penny Lane’s Listening to Kenny G is a work of discursive extrapolation, a probing work that finds in the artist’s divisiveness some interesting threads worth pulling.…
Benedetta is as bawdy as any Verhoeven on paper, but the director’s uncharacteristically meek directorial approach renders the film far tamer than it should…
Silent Night is more holiday punishment than gift. Featuring a floor-to-ceiling stacked cast and a festive setting and title, one might assume that Silent Night,…
Try Harder! submits itself to a certain festival-friendly documentary texture rather than acting as a probing reflection of its sociopolitical environment. One of the many…
Encanto can be a bit boring, a bit shallow, and a bit underwhelming in the musical department, but its gorgeous animation and rather quaint character…
The Summit of the Gods proves that the new subgenre of mountaineering movies can successfully and beautifully extend to the world of animation. The…
Bruised is a dumb, derivative riff on Rocky, yet another work of deglamorization that fails to scrape beyond its grimy surface. It seems only appropriate that…
There’s a potentially great movie buried in Encounter, one that Pearce scuttles in service of a high concept that goes mostly nowhere. Riz Ahmed…