An absolutely ripping sci-fi actioner that outclasses Hollywood by nearly every measure, ‘Hope’ is 156 minutes of sustained escalation that just keeps getting wilder and wilder and then…ends abruptly. It…
A pulpy, bloody grindhouse throwback to when movies existed to make you feel something for 90 minutes and then let you get on with your life, Onslaught is a nasty…
A concept gag about the inherent creepiness of children’s TV that translates surprisingly well to feature-film format, Buddy warps the familiar cheeriness of big, colorful foam mascots into something genuinely…
Macon Blair’s 'Idiots' is a shaggy road-trip comedy about two shitheads driving another shithead to rehab. The performances, mainly Dave Franco’s, drive the piece toward comedic highs, but it feels…
Predominantly a beautifully photographed post-apocalyptic character study, 'The Dog Stars' is at its best when focused on grief, companionship, and what makes survival worth the trouble. When it retreats into…
A wonderfully elegiac, formally strange, and beautifully poetic tale of beginnings and endings led by an all-star cast, defined by the push and pull of either divine fate or random chance as it touches the lives of a constellation of broken families. A more-than-three-hour ensemble drama that all takes place over one night shouldn’t feel...
One of the finest films of 2026, Matthew Johnson's 'Tony' is a masterful exploration of one man's search for meaning and the demons we must continue to stave off to…
'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma' from writer-director Jane Schoenbrun is a deeply meta horror curio whose commentary on the genre and the place of queerness within it eventually overwhelms…
For about five years now, the internet’s favorite armchair diagnosis has been “superhero fatigue.” We’re all familiar with the bit. Every underperforming cape movie gets the same postmortem: audiences are DONE, the genre is COOKED, the well is DRY, Kevin Feige should salt the earth and move onto greener pastures. We’ve all been writing the...
Before we’d exchanged more than a few words, Gregg Araki was already laughing. He spotted the blue “HO LIFE OR NO LIFE” hat I’d chosen for the interview and asked whether I had worn it specifically for him. “Of course,” I told him. Given the nature of I Want Your Sex, it felt appropriate. I...