2nd Chance Ramin Bahrani, once again, has something to say about the state of the modern-day American Dream. That “something,” per usual for him…
Deep Water is an erotic thriller that’s neither particularly erotic nor thrilling. Those hoping for a horny throwback to the now-considered-classic erotic thrillers of…
Alice is but another well-intentioned but utterly ham-fisted confrontation of America’s original sin. While history books are quick to tell us that Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation…
By all accounts, Jane by Charlotte seems to be a therapeutic exercise, but for outside viewers, it’s a languidly paced and essentially shapeless film. Released…
Bloody Oranges is late-’90s Tarantino knockoff adorned with finger-wagging political window dressing. Partway through alleged French comedy Bloody Oranges is an epigraph from Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci…
Spin Me Round Jeff Baena’s Spin Me Round, co-written with its star Alison Brie, sets out as a comedic take on the very Hollywood…
The Outfit is a glossy but empty prestige crime drama that mistakes convolution for compelling plotting. Early in The Outfit, our central protagonist, a mild-mannered…
Ahed’s Knee is an expressionistic work of subjective ruptures and discontinuities that attempts to give complete satisfaction to human reason. If Nadav Lapid is a…
The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs is a multilayered, intersectional films that resonates far beyond its humble, unassuming narrative. In the annals of films about…
Bitch Ass Slasher flick Bitch Ass opens with the one and only Tony Todd — yes, Candyman himself — as host of a seemingly…
The Adam Project takes the shape of any number of sci-fi adventure romps, but offers a surprisingly developed emotional core. It’s been quite a while…
All My Friends Hate Me’s off-kilter framework is both a blessing and curse, but there’s an abrasive charm for those willing to play its…
Ultrasound is appealing in spurts but frustratingly sticks to a safe middle ground where it could have stood to be messier. Rob Schroeder’s Ultrasound exists…
The Long Walk is an intricate and elegant work, sure to be one of the year’s best genre efforts and a remarkable calling card for…
Feast exists in the liminal spaces between fact and fiction, a wholly original work that forces viewers to grapple with its themes in troubling, unexpected…
Last Exit: Space engages in plenty of stimulating rhetoric, but its muddled tone and underwhelming visual aesthetic undermine much of its cinematic appeal. Given the…
The Seed offers plenty of gooey, gloopy genre fun, but is ultimately too scattershot and arrhythmically paced to fully recommend. There’s always room out there…
Train Again is yet another bold, precise, and transcendental work from Peter Tscherkassky. As InRO contributor Brendan Nagle once observed, the image — 24 of…