Onoda, 10,000 Nights in the Jungle Every pronouncement that points to a Second Coming ruptures the human sense of linear temporal experience, pulling one…
Real-life subtext melds effortlessly with easy, endearing comedy in Panah Panahi’s Hit the Road. Sam Levinson, Jaden Smith, Jake Gyllenhaal, Maya Hawke, and Bryce Dallas…
Virus: 32 isn’t reinventing the zombie film wheel, but its careful attention to craft and precise formalism mark this effort near the head of the…
Dual is delightfully off-kilter and funny enough to keep the viewer’s attention, but is undermined by its failures of internal logic and a general impression…
Sexual Drive draws the straightest possible line between food and sex, never striving for anything deeper or more creative than basic simile. For nearly as…
If its title wasn’t a giveaway, Marvelous and the Black Hole is a quirk-heavy comedy that approaches authenticity in moments, only to retreat back into…
The Secret of Dumbledore is yet another bloated franchise entry that further flattens the Wizarding World’s profoundly diminished appeal. It’s 2022 and whatever magic a…
The only choice to make regarding Choose or Die is to choose not to watch this lazy, unintelligible bit of horror rehash. New Netflix horror flick…
You Won’t Be Alone is an emotional and aesthetic masterwork, and a stirring expression of the human condition. Goran Stolevski’s feature-length debut, You Won’t Be…
Paris, 13th District succeeds in communicating something distinctly, relatably human, even as it falters to present captivating drama. There’s something particularly soul-crushing about being…
The Northman is a brutal and beautiful bit of mythic spectacle, but can still sometimes feel restrained despite its outsized production. Gather round: it’s time…
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is a bold, terrifying portrait of the Internet’s isolation/connection dichotomy. There’s something bracing about encountering a genuine oddity…
A deeply spiritual, even existential, odyssey that mingles numerous contradictory forces into a striking whole, The Tale of King Crab is certain to be remembered…
The Cellar is far too bogged down in the why of its haunted house conceit, deferring thrills in its dull march to an inevitable conclusion. Brendan Muldowney’s…
Navalny is a valuable film in our age of geopolitical misinformation, but also skews toward hagiography and relies too heavily on an info-dump style format.…
Aline is an undeniably singular film, but its eccentricities are mostly gloss on an overly-familiar biopic template. The new musical drama Aline is officially described…
Poppy Field carries the veneer of importance but isn’t much more than a series of lazy ironies, a shallow character study in need of a…
Ambulance is pure action mastery and Michael Bay’s best film in 20 years. Let’s just get this out of the way up front: you’re not…