When The Invite premiered at Sundance earlier this year, it landed as one of the festival’s sharpest surprises: a sex comedy with a soul, powered by four actors all operating at full voltage. (I called it an A-grade “zesty swinger comedy that’s equally hilarious and therapeutic” in my review out of the fest.) What’s most...
Michael Sarnoski’s 'The Death of Robin Hood' strips the folk hero of his mythic nobility, transforming the outlaw legend into a bruising meditation on violence, regret, and the stories we…
'Toy Story 5' is a funny, heartbreaking, and insightful meditation on childhood in the digital age, asking what gets lost when screens begin replacing imagination. The gang is all here…
Adrian Chiarella's 'Leviticus' transforms the horrors of conversion therapy into a chilling supernatural nightmare with genuine emotional weight. While its 'It Follows' influences are impossible to miss, this queer coming-of-age…
Steven Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' only occasionally recaptures the sense of awe that made him one of science fiction's defining filmmakers, but those moments are buried beneath a baffling screenplay that…
There are movies that unfold according to a plan, each scene carefully advancing a story toward a predetermined destination. Then there are movies like Summer War, where every scene feels as though it might wander off in an entirely unexpected direction. Writer-director Alicia Scherson’s adaptation of Roberto Bolaño’s novel The Third Reich is messy, strange,...
A bundle of sage burns inconspicuously in an apartment window. A plate is shattered. A woman weeps in the shower. Jane has just been dumped. These are the opening moments of Matt Eames’ Deepfake, a satire about influencer culture, loneliness, and the increasingly transactional nature of modern relationships that never manages to dig much deeper...
Daniel Roher's 'Tuner' is the rare crowd-pleasing crime thriller that works just as well as a thoughtful character study. Propelled by Leo Woodall's breakout performance and a deeply immersive sonic…
Kane Parsons' 'Backrooms' is a disorienting nightmare that derives its horror as much from its kaleidoscopic, alien architecture as its unsettling meditation on loneliness and self-imposed isolation. Atmospherically haunting and…
The magic has been force-drained from the Star Wars universe with 'The Mandalorian and Grogu', a dreadful non-starter that fails in almost every capacity to actually pass as a "movie".…