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Cuckoo
(2024)
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Rachel West
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Tilman Singer embraces the weird, delivering a commendable if not fully comprehendible story in which women and motherhood play a central theme.
Posted Aug 08, 2024
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The Soul Eater
(2024)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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A chilling mystery about an isolated community who capitalism left behind, The Soul Eater is a thrilling, thoughtful addition to the serial killer film tradition.
Posted Aug 05, 2024
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Hell Hole
(2024)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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With one eye on the real life horrors of looming environmental collapse and another on the enduring power of the classic monster movie, Hell Hole is another feather in the already plume-abundant Adams Family cap.
Posted Aug 05, 2024
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Infinite Summer
(2024)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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Infinite Summer might lack the immediate ‘wow’ factor of Llansó’s earlier work, but at its core it is just as charming – and just as thoughtful – as anything he has done previously.
Posted Aug 05, 2024
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The Dead Thing
(2024)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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This is a refreshing and emotionally intelligent film, an exercise in style that never holds back on substance.
Posted Aug 05, 2024
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Bookworm
(2024)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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Aside from being a really lovely, fun little family movie with all the freshness and authenticity that marks the best of the genre, Bookworm is also an impressive calling card for one of the most exciting young actors working today
Posted Aug 05, 2024
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Black Eyed Susan
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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Audiences open to exploring the dynamics of control, capitalism, and particular psychosexual masculine urges being equated with rage and domination will find grist to chew on in Black Eyed Susan.
Posted Aug 05, 2024
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4/5
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The G
(2023)
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Nadine Whitney
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After watching The G, you’ll not only crave more meaty roles for Dale Dickey, but you’ll be also want to see more mature women with killer instincts wielding the gun or knife and taking out aholes with no remorse.
Posted Aug 05, 2024
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3/5
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Electrophilia
(2023)
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Nadine Whitney
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Electrophilia is beautiful and Mariana Di Girólamo gives a committed performance as Ada, but the disorienting and disjointed aspects of the film make it difficult to fully connect.
Posted Aug 05, 2024
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A
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Hell Hole
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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Hell Hole is hilarious, gross, and unafraid to make a statement about the various kinds of rapacity in the contemporary world… entertaining as hell and is yet another triumph for the Adams family.
Posted Aug 05, 2024
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5/5
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Vulcanizadora
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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Vulcanizadora is supremely accomplished, unbearably sad, and the kind of film which is hard to shake off. Magnificient.
Posted Aug 05, 2024
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B+
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Deadpool & Wolverine
(2024)
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Susan Kamyab
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While the plot won’t really stick with you, the fight sequences paired with one of the best soundtracks will. Deadpool & Wolverine is non-stop laughs, surprises, and fun.
Posted Jul 30, 2024
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The Beast Within
(2024)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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The Beast Within isn’t a terrible film, but sadly it is not a particularly great one either, so ham-fisted is its approach to its central themes.
Posted Jul 30, 2024
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A
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Dìdi
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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It’s hella hard being thirteen – Sean Wang’s Dìdi captures it all with honesty. One of the year’s best dramatic comedies.
Posted Jul 28, 2024
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Oddity
(2024)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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While the story of Oddity is a fascinating one, it is less the tale itself than the particular way McCarthy chooses to tell it that renders it one of the year’s best horror movies
Posted Jul 27, 2024
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Once Upon a River
(2019)
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Sarah Ward
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Telling of traumas that plague a Native American teenager, writer/director Haroula Rose shows the resonance of her protagonist’s experiences. Inequality is hardly a relic of history. This coming-of-age story is relevant to past, present and future
Posted Jul 22, 2024
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A
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Oddity
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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Oddity is a new gothic horror classic marking the emergence of an undeniable talent.
Posted Jul 22, 2024
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Twisters
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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Twisters is the kind of tent pole action film to get audiences buzzing. With a confident new generation stepping in to keep the spirit of daring and meteorological adventure alive and thriving – Twisters is a winner.
Posted Jul 15, 2024
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2/5
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Sidonie In Japan
(2023)
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Nadine Whitney
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Sidone in Japan is irritatingly artificial. The humour is slight, the faux-profundity embarrassing. Girard’s Japonisme is empty aesthetic.
Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
(2023)
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Justina Walford
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A perfect cocktail of sweet teen innocence, old vampire family quirks, and blood! While the outcome is predictable, the fun is in taking the ride to the end.
Posted Jul 11, 2024
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Cora Bora
(2023)
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T.J. Callahan
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Hacks breakout player Megan Stalter jumps from a supporting role on television to big screen stardom as the titular character in the LGBTQ+ comedy/drama, Cora Bora.
Posted Jul 08, 2024
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New Religion
(2022)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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This is an impressive, ambitious film that succeeds as much as a tone poem as it does a story about grief, identity, a society spiralling out of control, and the volatility that rumbles underneath the assumed indexicality of the very image itself
Posted Jul 08, 2024
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A
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Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
(2023)
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Nadine Whitney
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Chronicles of a Wandering Saint is sweet, funny, deadpan, and magical. A tale about love after life and the mysteries of the day to day being just as profound as those of the divine.
Posted Jul 03, 2024
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Inside Out 2
(2024)
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Valerie Kalfrin
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Like its predecessor, Inside Out 2 provides some emotional tools inside an entertaining and relatable package.
Posted Jul 02, 2024
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A Quiet Place: Day One
(2024)
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Valerie Kalfrin
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a phenomenal film that subverts expectations in rich and affecting ways. ... a personal, poignant adventure about cherishing what matters most.
Posted Jul 02, 2024
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A Family Affair
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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Charmless, unsexy, generally irritating and unfunny. The kind of confection where the wish fulfilment is for it to stop being someone’s wish fulfilment and for anyone to have a real-world problem for fifteen minutes.
Posted Jul 02, 2024
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4/4
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Thelma
(2024)
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Sarah Knight Adamson
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Undoubtedly, Squibb’s excellent performance is the center of this heartwarming and comical film, as Margolin’s even pacing, enhanced by composer Nick Chuba’s beautiful yet spirited score, keeps the audience highly engaged.
Posted Jun 25, 2024
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Killer of Men
(2022)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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Killer of Men is a taut, elegant low-budget feature where a confident grasp of the visual language of cinema speaks as much – if not more so – than narrative nuts and bolts like dialogue
Posted Jun 24, 2024
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Bad Shabbos
(2024)
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Sherin Nicole
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If one person behaved rationally in Bad Shabbos the movie would end after 20 minutes with a 911 call. But that wouldn’t be a NYC story, and this most definitely is.
Posted Jun 21, 2024
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Late Bloomers
(2023)
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Pam Grady
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A film that is overly facile and a little sitcom-like at the start eventually finds its footing to blossom into a touching story of a young woman finding herself.
Posted Jun 21, 2024
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Late Bloomers
(2023)
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Nell Minow
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Director Lisa Steen and screenwriter Anna Greenfield take us inside the intimacy of women’s spaces, with older women illuminating a path of resilience, courage, and humor for Gillan’s character.
Posted Jun 21, 2024
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Late Bloomers
(2023)
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Liz Whittemore
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The most unexpected buddy comedy of the year
Posted Jun 21, 2024
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Late Bloomers
(2023)
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Loren King
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Late Bloomers finds a fresh approach to a coming of age and mother/daughter story,
Posted Jun 21, 2024
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Late Bloomers
(2023)
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Sandie Angulo Chen
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Directed by Lisa Steen and written by Anna Greenfield, the charming and surprisingly moving film is a testament to how unlikely friendships can change and inspire people.
Posted Jun 21, 2024
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Late Bloomers
(2023)
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Leslie Combemale
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Grumpy young woman meets grumpy old woman to both their delights in Lisa Steen’s directorial debut. Margaret Sophie Stein offers a world of meaning through body language in a story where communication is meant to go beyond words.
Posted Jun 21, 2024
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Late Bloomers
(2023)
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Jennifer Merin
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LATE BLOOMERS is a soulful film that gives way to compassionate consideration of heart heavy subjects like loneliness, abandonment, self esteem and the agonies of aging. The story has enough quirky embellishments to to be thoroughly engaging throughout.
Posted Jun 21, 2024
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The Everything Pot
(2024)
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Sherin Nicole
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This eye-popping pile-up of social blunders [will] redden your checks in several shades of secondhand embarrassment. The Everything Pot is a comedic exploration of the ways matters of the heart cause “things” to fall apart.
Posted Jun 21, 2024
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Late Bloomers
(2023)
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Betsy Bozdech
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"A thoughtful take on what it really means to grow up."
Posted Jun 20, 2024
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The Weekend
(2024)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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All hail the mighty Daniel Orihai, who bursts out of Nigeria with a pounding, intoxicating instant horror classic, The Weekend.
Posted Jun 19, 2024
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Brief History of a Family
(2024)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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It might not have the climactic whistles and bells of Parasite or Saltburn, but in this instance anything else would feel almost dishonest; this is a careful, considered film of enormous intelligence and emotional resonance
Posted Jun 18, 2024
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Wake Up
(2023)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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It may not exactly reinvent the wheel, but no one can doubt the dedication to their craft and the undisguised glee this team takes in their approach to making genre movies that demand to be experienced in a cinema
Posted Jun 18, 2024
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Kill
(2023)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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The film issues a kind of acrobatic masculinity that would make Burt Lancaster blush, all shot through a bloody lens that would make Peckinpah proud.
Posted Jun 18, 2024
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Memory
(2023)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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Memory is a remarkably humane film that avoids any obvious missteps that would see it collapse into movie-of-the-week social issue melodrama terrain
Posted Jun 18, 2024
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20,000 Species of Bees
(2023)
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Jennifer Green
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Writer-director Estíbaliz Urresola Solaguren drops us into a family’s life to let us live with them and gradually figure out, as they do, what’s going on. She strings together clues but lets the story reveal itself in its own time.
Posted Jun 17, 2024
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Cannibal Mukbang
(2023)
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Nadine Whitney
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Cannibal Mukbang is the kind of film which comes bolting out of the gates heading straight to the jugular and tugging at the audience’s heartstrings.
Posted Jun 15, 2024
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She Loved Blossoms More
(2024)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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She Loved Blossoms is an all-too-rare treasure, a sumptuous beast that both dazzles the eye and joyfully, playfully and willfully befuddles the brain.
Posted Jun 15, 2024
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Vulcanizadora
(2024)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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Vulcanizadora is a dark, sombre film, and yet it speaks of something so genuine in such an urgent way that the courage driving it brings with it an implicit kind of hope.
Posted Jun 15, 2024
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Darkest Miriam
(2024)
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Sherin Nicole
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...a concoction that pours its heart out and flows like the tides of life. This is the story of a woman who finds her art (how a librarian becomes a poet) and the books, dad, and reports that knew it all along.
Posted Jun 13, 2024
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Beacon
(2024)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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A watertight encounter with the lighthouse-set horror trope that fully serves the film’s deeper gender political thematics, Beacon does exactly what it sets sail to do.
Posted Jun 13, 2024
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Witches
(2024)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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This film shines the most when Sankey uses the history of witches in cinema as a kind of paintbox with which to craft her own deeply moving story of being a woman who herself has at times failed to adhere to the socially acceptable model
Posted Jun 13, 2024
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