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Hummingbirds (2023) David Opie A remarkably vibrant debut that embodies the hopes and dreams of two bright young talents on the cusp of adulthood.

Posted Jun 22, 2024

Fancy Dance (2023) Christian Zilko Tremblay’s film deserves to be appreciated as more than a mere addendum to a bigger movie [Killers of the Flower Moon]. On its own terms, the film is an exquisite star vehicle for one of Hollywood’s best rising actresses and an engaging thriller.

Posted Jun 21, 2024

Trigger Warning (2024) David Ehrlich At some point along the way, the powers that be appear to have decided that Trigger Warning didn’t have to be good, it just had to be something that people might succumb to on a Friday night when they don’t have the energy to seek out something bette

Posted Jun 21, 2024

Chestnut (2023) David Opie Natalia Dyer impresses, but Chestnut lacks personality and a distinct voice, which is unfortunate and frustrating because there's so much potential here to be something more.

Posted Jun 21, 2024

The Devil's Bath (2024) David Ehrlich The Devil’s Bath might be punctuated by the occasional jolt... but the final act of this movie is all the more terrifying because it isn’t softened by genre language or expectations.

Posted Jun 18, 2024

Sabbath Queen (2024) Ryan Lattanzio Taking on multiple decades of the man’s life means this film loses its way sometimes amid a scattered approach, but Sabbath Queen shrewdly asks hard questions about what it means to be Jewish in the 21st century.

Posted Jun 17, 2024

The Imaginary (2023) David Ehrlich “The Imaginary” throws a slurry of new ideas at the wall, but the lack of internal logic between them makes it difficult for any of them to stick.

Posted Jun 14, 2024

Just the Two of Us (2024) Christian Zilko A rare thriller whose setup is more compelling than its climax... But the film’s ability to trace a hellish case of domestic abuse back to its blissful origins makes it well worth watching.

Posted Jun 14, 2024

Summer Solstice (2023) Ryan Lattanzio Menuez and Rendón share a terrific chemistry as long-holding-on friends questioning whether they should stay friends at all, and if they should, then why? Comedies like “Summer Solstice” rarely ask that question with such candor and insight.

Posted Jun 13, 2024

Treasure (2024) David Ehrlich Co-written by John Quester, von Heinz’s script tends to operate more like a wrecking ball than a controlled demolition, but Fry and Dunham endow their scenes with a brick-by-brick specificity that brings their characters to their life.

Posted Jun 13, 2024

Witches (2024) Alison Foreman With a generous scope and ease of tone, Sankey never fails to let her most vulnerable material breathe even as the subject’s enormity threatens to suffocate.

Posted Jun 12, 2024

Bang Bang (2024) Christian Zilko The washed-up fighter archetype who spits poetry about the demons he now battles has been done to death. Yet it becomes clear those cliches are the point.

Posted Jun 12, 2024

Inside Out 2 (2024) David Ehrlich So perfectly ticks Pixar’s boxes in a way that forces the sincerity of its storytelling into a losing battle with the cynicism of its existence.

Posted Jun 12, 2024

Quad Gods (2024) David Ehrlich This is a glancing but affectingly intimate study about four people who prove to themselves -- and to each other -- that their brains can be every bit as malleable as their bodies, so long as they’re able to remap the controls.

Posted Jun 11, 2024

Hacking Hate (2024) Vikram Murthi There’s nothing inaccurate about Klose’s thesis, which is fairly airtight and has been well reported on by many others, but his alarmist visual style quickly exhibits diminishing returns.

Posted Jun 11, 2024

A Desert (2024) Christian Zilko Rather than trying to understand exactly what it means, you’re better off appreciating it like one of Alex’s photos. Just like an abandoned roadside diner becoming overrun by fungi and rodent’s nests, sometimes the emptiness is the point.

Posted Jun 11, 2024

All That We Love (2024) Samantha Bergeson Do we need to be reminded of the dullness of the day-to-day by a dull film? Not necessarily, but All That We Love gets points for trying -- and with a tight running time that doesn’t outstay its welcome.

Posted Jun 11, 2024

Jazzy (2024) Kate Erbland This is a filmmaker who knows how to tell story by showing it, and by trusting her audience to come along for the ride. How rare that has become these days.

Posted Jun 10, 2024

Sacramento (2024) David Ehrlich “Sacramento” never aspires to be much more than an incisively rendered sketch, but its casual nature and outward lack of ambition belie how well it manages to convey the terror that change brings into our lives.

Posted Jun 10, 2024

Vulcanizadora (2024) Katie Rife Vulcanizadora doesn't know how to cope with these truths, and will alienate much, if not most, of its audience as a result. But the honesty with which it expresses these dark thoughts is commendable.

Posted Jun 10, 2024

Ultraman: Rising (2024) David Ehrlich A fun, sincere, and thoughtfully conceived piece of kids entertainment. And it’s liable to make young viewers more curious about the world around them -- not less.

Posted Jun 07, 2024

Tuesday (2023) Vikram Murthi As much as “Tuesday” strives to be an adult fairy tale about accepting loss, it struggles to be truly effective because, by design, it traffics in an adolescent sandbox.

Posted Jun 07, 2024

Griffin in Summer (2024) Kate Erbland As a showcase for [Nicholas Colia's] stellar casting abilities and knack for heartwarming storytelling, Griffin in Summer is a very fine feature directorial debut.

Posted Jun 07, 2024

Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge (2024) Ryan Lattanzio This Diane Von Furstenberg is plenty engaging, but as a tribute to the woman who reinvented the modern dress, it doesn’t reinvent anything itself.

Posted Jun 07, 2024

The Watchers (2024) David Ehrlich The sudden onslaught of exposition displaces whatever mild investment this movie has earned in its characters.

Posted Jun 06, 2024

Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024) David Ehrlich Despite everything that’s crammed into this one, it’s still nothing without Mike and Marcus. And despite everything that Smith has been through since the previous installment, he and Lawrence will always be our bad boys.

Posted Jun 04, 2024

The Great Lillian Hall (2024) Christian Zilko While it doesn’t pull punches about the challenges that lie ahead, The Great Lillian Hall ultimately makes it clear that its protagonist is lucky to have something that’s so hard to let go.

Posted May 31, 2024

Ezra (2023) David Ehrlich Rides an emotional honesty that’s almost completely undone by the sweaty contrivances of its plotting. But this modest little movie’s refusal to be limited by its “problem” feels like a step in the right direction.

Posted May 30, 2024

The Commandant's Shadow (2024) David Ehrlich Regrettably, "never again" proves to be a misguided ethos for a film about pain that's so nakedly unresolved, both in its characters, and in a world that has learned nothing from the lessons they were born to teach it.

Posted May 30, 2024

Young Woman and the Sea (2024) Kate Erbland The real Ederle accomplished so much, it’s hard to imagine cramming it all into one tidy feature. The one we’ve got? It’s good enough, rousing enough, compelling enough.

Posted May 30, 2024

Solo (2023) David Opie Director Sophie Dupuis blends queer euphoria with toxic love in a French-Canadian love letter to drag that skirts past cliche in favour of nuanced celebration.

Posted May 29, 2024

Le Royaume (2024) Josh Slater-Williams Colonna’s film, co-written with Jeanne Herry, is a riveting, moving take on this narrative. So crucial to its success is that central father and daughter duo, with casting for the film reportedly having taken place over eight months.

Posted May 28, 2024

The Most Precious of Cargoes (2024) Leila Latif An unflinching but elegant Holocaust fable adapted from Jean-Claude Grumberg’s 2019 novella of the name name.

Posted May 24, 2024

The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) Ryan Lattanzio Rasoulof crafts an extraordinarily gripping allegory about the corrupting costs of power and the suppression of women under a religious patriarchy that crushes the very people it claims to protect.

Posted May 24, 2024

Beating Hearts (2024) Arjun Sajip Lellouche may not be an original, but he is a committed craftsman and an avid synthesizer of forms, and if there’s one thing this starry-eyed epic demonstrates, it’s that even well-worn genres can be enlivened by sincerity, surprises and visual punch.

Posted May 24, 2024

Flow (2024) Christian Blauvelt It’s not just a supreme example of a movie kids will love that adults will too. With its wordlessness, this is a film that could play in any country of the world, its capacity to reach literally everyone limitless.

Posted May 24, 2024

Universal Language (2024) David Ehrlich Don’t be fooled by all of the analog throwback charm: This is a bittersweet lament for an interconnected age where people have every opportunity to appreciate what they have in common, but lack the vision needed in order to see it clearly.

Posted May 24, 2024

Atlas (2024) Kate Erbland Mostly, it all looks like a video game cut scene, which isn’t just a ding on its overall aesthetics (cheap), but its general narrative thrust (weak, silly). The closer you pay attention to those elements, the harder they are to ignore.

Posted May 24, 2024

All We Imagine as Light (2024) Sophie Monks Kaufman Each shot by Ranabir Das in this gorgeous and absorbing film has been composed to have the skin-prickling effect of a photograph taken by someone with a deep and attentive care for their subject.

Posted May 24, 2024

Rumours (2024) David Ehrlich “Rumours” thrives in its broadness, especially as the lack of political specificity that it offers to its characters only deepens the fact that there isn’t a single real credo shared between them.

Posted May 23, 2024

Gazer (2024) Christian Zilko Gazer is the kind of debut that should restore your lost faith in independent cinema.

Posted May 22, 2024

Viet and Nam (2024) Josh Slater-Williams While a degree of naturalism does still make its way into many slow-burn scenes, Quy’s filmmaking largely favors expressionism.

Posted May 22, 2024

To a Land Unknown (2024) Sophie Monks Kaufman To a Land Unknown is a tour-de-force of empathic storytelling, with its genre narrative bursting with an overabundance of humanity. The unexpected, far-away place that Said references is expressed fully, as both a geographical reality and a soul in exile.

Posted May 22, 2024

Grand Tour (2024) David Ehrlich For all the luminous beauty of its images, Grand Tour sorely lacks a current strong enough to sustain the thoughts that flow between them, compelling as some of those thoughts may be.

Posted May 22, 2024

Parthenope (2024) David Ehrlich Parthenope is considerably less dreamlike than some of the director’s previous work, but vast stretches of the movie seem to exist in nebulous pockets of non-time, if only because of their weird unreality.

Posted May 21, 2024

Marcello Mio (2024) Ben Croll All dressed up with nowhere to go, Marcello Mio uses the lead as a prop for nostalgia and stand-in for this or that Fellini homage.

Posted May 21, 2024

September Says (2024) Sophie Monks Kaufman This is an intriguing if flawed debut that is most forceful in its impressionistic commitment to showing the feminine grotesque.

Posted May 21, 2024

The Village Next to Paradise (2024) Leila Latif If there is a bright future to hope for to distract ourselves from staring off into that abyss, it is that Harawe’s debut has shown some extremely exciting potential for both him and the myriad stories and talents that lie within Somalia’s borders.

Posted May 21, 2024

Black Dog (2023) Christian Zilko Depending on how you look at it, Black Dog is either the most violently depraved feel-good animal movie in recent memory or the most wholesome neo-noir we’ve seen in a while.

Posted May 21, 2024

Anora (2024) David Ehrlich The visceral undertow that “Anora” is able to create between the collective urgency of its characters and the inescapable chokehold of their aspirations eventually crashes ashore with enough power to crush you in your seat.

Posted May 21, 2024