The Phantom of the Open doesn’t deviate much from the underdog sports movie template, but has just enough depth and charm to slightly elevate…
A sharp, intelligent, and character-driven LGBTQ riff on Austen, Fire Island is one of the best things to happen to the rom-com genre in…
With DASHCAM, Savage threads a tricky needle of Screenlife, first-person POV, and found footage cinema, but if you can vibe with the assemblage, there…
Watcher stumbles into the territory of predictability that has sunk many a better horror-thriller before it. Horror inspired by the unique voyeurism of apartment-living…
Poser is an ambitious work that pushes contemporary indie filmmaking out of its familiar comfort zone, doing so with authenticity and creative aplomb.. In…
Sycorax is a fluid re-orientation of filmic and theatrical modes, a mostly successful attempt at contextualizing classic modes within a contemporary context. The vastly…
The Bob’s Burger’s Movie is fitfully amusing but wholly unnecessary, its translation to a long form and the big screen proving distinctly underwhelming. Fox Television’s…
There Are No Saints is for exploitation heads only, a warmed-over rehash that excises much of Schrader’s heady themes in favor of bland bloodshed.…
Freakscene is worth a watch for completists, but anyone looking for a more comprehensive, well-structured deep-dive would do well to look elsewhere. Legendary indie…
In ultimately providing too many answers to its excessive plotting, A Chiara extinguishes some of its more troubling and intriguing possibilities. A gangster film from…
Look at Me is an entertaining Rorschach test, a declaration and a plea to study the evidence of a spectacular, troubled life. It begins with…
Carried by Skeggs and Gellner’s relentlessly flickering energy, Dinner in America is a modest but unexpectedly sweet experience. Adam Rehmeier’s sophomore film Dinner in America…
The competing modes of The Tsugua Diaries result in the sense of one film slapped upon another, Gomes’ adventurousness sacrificed in the name of the contemporaneous.…
Mariner of the Mountains is a beautiful family project that becomes diluted within the context of Aïnouz’s filmography, slowing the film’s considerable poetry. Per the…
Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers needs rescued from the Mouse House, which has here flattened the meta-reboot into a flavorless work of IP regurgitation.…
Good Mourning isn’t the cult stoner comedy it angles to be, but there’s a welcome amiability that permeates the entire film, elevating this MGK…
A New Old Play is a rich, complex contribution to the Chinese folk tradition, and a “theater” film for the ages. Without getting too far…
Cordelia engages as an exercise in tension for a while, but is utterly undone by a slogging climax that opts for conceptual indulgence and dank…