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Netflix’s horror section is huge, and too much of it is crap or filler. So instead of scrolling for an hour throughout this Halloween season and beyond, take a look at this curated selection of the best of the best. These are the best modern horror movies on Netflix right now, all released from 2010...
It’s possible for two things to be true at once. One: rankings are largely arbitrary and reductive, fodder for clicks and debate, and so steeped in the subjectivity of a particular moment that they’re easy to dismiss as anything resembling objective truth. Two: they get a lot of clicks, I like reading them, and I...
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...
Sundance 2026 delivered one last cinematic dump (in a good way, like powder on a snow-barren mountain) before packing up and leaving Park City for good. From chilling headphone horror to sex comedies with emotional rot, audacious midnight freakouts to quietly devastating documentaries, this year’s lineup proved that the festival still has what it takes...
With 2025 just about in the rearview window, tis the moment to take stock of what worked in 2025 before turning ahead to the most anticipated movies of 2026. As usual, the films I responded to most last year weren’t those trying to be agreeable or broad or endlessly franchisable. They were specific, abrasive, messy,...
As more people turn to streaming from the comfort of their couch-pits, the small screen landscape has ballooned and splintered in a thousand directions. The era of monocultural appointment TV—the kind that made Game of Thrones (at its peak) or Lost before it into national talking points—has faded into the ether, drowned by the ever-expanding...
Sundance Film Festival 2026 officially announced its lineup on December 10 and the reveal already feels weighted with more significance than usual. This will be the festival’s final year in Park City before it relocates to Boulder—a move that ends decades of proximity to the epic Wasatch slopes and closes the chapter on a place...
If 2024 felt transitional, 2025 felt reactionary. The industry is still figuring out where it’s future is heading, with streaming turbulence, downsized theatrical slates, and the lingering specter of automation hanging over the heads of everyone from below-the-line workers to A-list actors. With the recent news of the landmark WB acquisition, the future is very...
This year in television was another one for the books – and a strong argument that the small screen is still putting up a fight against the big screen for ultimate supremacy. This year featured a buffet of brilliant storytelling, ambitious experiments, and, yes, some deeply unhinged guilty pleasures. From prestige dramas to reality trainwrecks,...
2024 was a complicated year for film. The aftershocks of the industry strikes were deeply felt, shifting countless productions and leaving gaps in the release calendar, just as the rise of concerns over things like A.I. really took hold. It felt like a transition year in many places. A marker between past and future with...