There are certain moments in life when everything in our body tells us to run away from a situation but we still hesitate because we want to be polite. Maybe it’s a weird conversation with a glassy-eyed drunk we got trapped in at a fundraiser. Or a flirtation turned suddenly uncomfortable with some girl we...
July 17, 2014. Irka (Oksana Cherkashyna) and Tolik (Sergey Shadrin) live humbly in the Ukraine border town of the Donetsk, an Eastern region of disputed territory during the dawn of the Russian-Ukraine Donbas war in Klondike. They’re expecting a child. The film opens as the couple discuss birthing plans and getting somewhere safe to deliver the...
A one-of-a-kind allegorical delicacy, Fresh revels in taboo subjects to poke fun at the stomach-churning appetites of the modern dating world. A delirious mash-up of cheesy romance and body horror shlock, the debut film from Mimi Cave begins in deliciously grotesque fashion, showing flashes of both American Psycho and Martyrs as her devilish meat-cute puts...
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Lana Wachowski has attempted to bring her beloved franchise back to life with ‘The Matrix: Resurrections’ but this third sequel has all the brains of Frankenstein. And the charm to…
A legacy sequel that overdelivers on its promise to wrangle the three generations of Spider-Man together, ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ is essentially a live-action Spider-Verse film that, while juggling a…
Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is a definitional remake, one that pays too close attention to making every single element sing while forgetting to have a point of view, a…
A Texan ballad of a dirtbag ex-porn star, ‘Red Rocket’ is a sidesplittingly funny and brutally honest character study from writer-director Sean Baker. Its uncomfortable subject matter will be a…