Utama is undeniably one of the year’s most gorgeous works of image-making, but its narrative and thematic expressions are less consistently impressive. Over the past…
Something in the Dirt is a formidable DIY effort bearing Benson & Moorhead’s expected formal ingenuity, but it’s unfortunately all in service of a rather…
Descendant is a piercing work of ethnography that takes on America’s original sin with intelligence and nuance. Reclaiming history has, historically, been an arduous process,…
Falun Gong deserves a more rigorous and sophisticated defense than the templated, trend-chasing Eternal Spring is able to mount for it. For a film…
The Inhabitant somehow takes axe slayings as a primary plot point and makes the whole thing boring and self-serious. The horrific true-life tale of axe-wielding…
Section 8 is a serviceable VOD actioner, but one devoid of anything to set it apart. We here at InRO consider ourselves fans, connoisseurs even,…
Cat Daddies is a surprisingly gorgeous visual document that indeed has plenty of cats and daddies, but is muddled in its stab at thematic development.…
Ana Lily Amirpour’s foray into prestige television isn’t entirely unexpected, given both her affinity with idiosyncratic, highly stylized horror cinema and a cultural demand…
Of all the directors chosen for Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, David Prior might just be the hippest choice. Prior, formerly known only…
In “Graveyard Rats,” the second installment of Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Masson (David Hewlett), a professional grave robber, makes a last-ditch attempt…
Guillermo del Toro might be an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, but at heart he’s always been a fanboy. Part carnival barker, part collector, del Toro…
Prey for the Devil is boring and self-serious therapy session posing as a horror flick. It’s been a while since Hollywood went truly bugnuts over…
Run Sweetheart Run is as inconsistent, condescending, and unsubtle as films come. Audiences should run far away indeed. There are no shortage of think pieces…
TÁR raises plenty of fascinating questions, but Field unfortunately proves more interested in depicting the luridness of their specific context here than he does in…
Call Jane can come across as tidy and overly satisfied, but Nagy’s facility with actors and visuals keeps things proceeding with assurance. Call Jane, the…
Please Baby Please is a gauche and grimy good time, and might wind up as 2022’s best bit of playful kink. It’s the rare film…
The Novelist’s Film feels more diaristic than anything Hong has made before and results in what’s arguably his most emotive and personal film. One of…
Holy Spider fails to execute the tonal mastery needed for its material and is too self-conscious to occupy any pulpier territory. For approximately one year…