Glasshouse is a heady, challenging treatise on the nature of memory, its rippling interpersonal effects, and ultimately a horrifying study in survival of the…
Perhaps the preeminent film festival in the minds of genre aficionados, Fantasia Fest is back in 2022 at arguably the peak of its popularity,…
Persuasion tries and fails to hide its thoughtless adaptation instincts and baffling decision-making behind a deluge of modern stylistic flourishes and homages to superior…
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is appealingly quaint and visually pleasing, but dampens its delights with some soggy, unnecessary thematizing. Director Anthony Fabian’s Mrs.…
Cop Secret begins with a dubious premise and carries it through to inauthentic and aesthetically false ends. It’s the Icelandic homophobia-baiting comedy you didn’t…
Murina’s second half almost helps the film realize its pursuit of unsettling inquiry, but outside of its opening and closing shots, there’s too little…
Patrick: Hi there Ryan. Happy to be corresponding with you once again! And on the deceptively dense new work from Olivier Assayas, a miniseries…
Fire of Love is an gorgeous visual document that is somewhat undermined by its inorganic and distracting voiceover work. Despite boasting a title that…
Even within the teen romance subgenre, Hello, Goodbye stands out as particularly bland, delivering signifiers and signposts in place of genuine substance. Marketing materials…
Both Sides of the Blade is a work of true entropy, a unique film in Denis’ oeuvre that leverages a newfound sense of languor…
Moon, 66 Questions is a film that thrillingly channels the ebbs and tides of both physical movement and emotional trauma to affecting results. Moon,…
The Rise of Gru is gorgeously animated and has fun with its ’70s setting, but there’s a clear vein of laziness that keeps it…
Thor: Love and Thunder is a film that has TV series written all over it, and is but the latest MCU entry to land…
Incantation is found footage horror that does little to add fresh twists to a stale formula, instead relying on a non-stop barrage of tired…
Fourth of July is a clumsy, charmless “comedy” destined to be immediately forgotten about. You have to hand it to Louis C.K.: he may…
Wyrm suffers from an imbalance between its two halves, but is otherwise emotionally astute and earns the surreal world it conjures with careful, deeply considered…
Cryo hints early on at a future-facing work of exhilarating promise and peril, but is ultimately cloaked in a calcified slab of ice. Barrett Burgin’s…
Press Play’s mash-up of The Time Machine and The Notebook is plagued by a wet blanket lead, horrid pacing, and a lack of any real…