David Lowery's hypnotic 'Mother Mary' is a breakup song filtered through the lens of a ghost story, mounted with spectacular production elements and stitched together with unreal performances from Michaela…
When I told John Magaro I’d watched Omaha twice and was still recovering, he laughed and apologized. It’s a tough movie, but one that’s nevertheless rewarding and Magaro’s powerful, largely wordless turn powers the film confidently. Cole Webley’s debut feature, written by Robert Machoian, is a road trip movie with a dark destination, a slow-burn...
'I Swear', Kirk Jones’ biographical account of Tourette’s advocate John Davidson, is a moving and often very funny drama that finds compassion in contradiction, anchored by a breakout performance from…
SIFF 2026 rolls into Seattle next month with its usual sprawling, borderline-unruly lineup — hundreds of films from dozens of countries crammed into twenty-five days of screenings. It remains, by attendance, the largest film festival in the United States, and one of the last festivals in the country that still programs with the kind of...
This 'Faces of Death' reimagining from Daniel Goldhaber isn’t going to convert any new horror fans, but this overtly schlocky, grindhouse B-movie takes the concept of “is it real or…
Bob Odenkirk does not read as an action star. He knows this. You know this. And yet, here he is, three films deep into an unlikely second act as a guy who takes and delivers beatings on screen with the kind of bruised conviction that most traditional action leads can’t touch. With Normal, directed by...
A tired redux of decades of superior action-comedy movies, 'Normal' aspires to poke fun at the one-man army subset of the genre but fails to find much of anything interesting…
'The Drama' finds Zendaya and Robert Pattinson pulling apart at the seams in Kristoffer Borgli’s incisive, destabilizing anti-rom-com, a nervy A24 anxiety spiral that sits comfortably alongside 'Uncut Gems' and…
For the better part of the last decade, it has felt as if the theatrical experience has been standing on its last leg, waging its final war, poised to fend off a changing tide or be swept away by it. Between the rise and proliferation of streaming services and the COVID-19 pandemic – which shuttered...
Ian McKellen is phenomenal in 'The Christophers' - and Michaela Coel more than holds her own - a film that manages to be both thematically rich and genuinely crowd-pleasing. What…