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…
The Evil Next Door forgoes character development and clever plotting in an effort to manufacture cheap scares. Is there anything more boring than a…
Stalker is a wonderful calling card for Savage, a director who understands both form and function of genre cinema. The new horror-thriller Stalker has…
Edge of the World is a weak film that further dooms itself by so liberally cribbing from better works. The name and fame of…
Hero Mode is almost charming in its throwback vibe, but its rhetoric is far less appealing. There’s a disappearing niche that films like Hero…
OK, so things don’t really vanish anymore: even the most limited film release will (most likely, eventually) find its way onto some streaming service…
Werewolves Within doesn’t deliver many scares, but it hits an amusing, breezy target that too few horror-comedies manage. Finn (Sam Richardson) is the new…
My Heart Can’t Beat… impresses both as psychodrama and horror, the kind of film destined to live under viewers’ skin. There’s an aching sense…
False Positive plays like a modern riff on Rosemary’s Baby, but executes its updated vision perfunctorily and mostly dully. Even though it’s sort of unfair to…
False Positive Even though it’s sort of unfair to stack False Positive against Rosemary’s Baby, the movie is asking for it, and, unfortunately, the…
I Carry You With Me is an unpleasant mix of manipulative pap and trivialized stakes, and it’s done no favors by its docu-fiction structure. I…
Fathom In the wake of Planet Earth’s zeitgeist arrival in 2006 and DisneyNature’s subsequent founding a short two years later, the nature documentary —…
Sweat swims in the grey areas of internet intimacy to thoughtful, sometimes unsettling results. For as long as we’ve held any conception of celebrity,…
Superdeep is only horrific in how much deadening exposition it forces viewers to endure. The idea that the deepest hole ever drilled into the…
Dating & New York Dating & New York, Jonah Feingold’s feature debut after working in shorts and television for the past decade, is a…
The Birthday Cake doesn’t offer anything original, but its small-scale mob stylings will likely please a certain moviegoing demographic. If the Internet is to be…
Siberia takes on nothing less than the very nature of reality, and is an emphatic statement on the necessity, not luxury, of creativity. Relating to…
Sweet Thing is one of the most gorgeous films in recent memory, but it fails to develop beyond its pretty packaging. Titled in homage…