The cultural landscape shifted as the project sat in development, and Araki’s relationship with its original imagery shifted alongside it. “It was around 2016 or 2017, after #MeToo and all that, that I started thinking,…
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So while I cannot in good faith assign NWF's latest a letter grade, what I can say is that what I did see ranks among the worst stretches…
Christopher Nolan stages an accessible, modernized retelling of the archetypal hero's journey with visual flair, technical wizardry, and enough monsters, myths, and spectacle to make for a thoroughly…
'Evil Dead Burn' is a sadistic addition that proudly continues the franchise's tradition of treating its characters with extreme cruelty while gifting its sicko fans with some of…
Although Milly Alcock remains inspired casting as Kara Zor-El, 'Supergirl' leans too heavily on worn-down sci-fi and superhero tropes to fully capitalize…
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...
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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...
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...
In 2026, Amanda Peet isn’t interested in holding anything back. In her most recent role in Fantasy Life, she plays Diane, a mother of three and working actor navigating a life that, on paper, is fully intact and quite successful, but internally feels much less stable. It’s a performance that resists easy categorization: there’s no...
The art of cinema is being systematically devalued and reduced to its lowest common denominator. Anyways, here’s what’s streaming now!
Kane Parsons' 'Backrooms' is a disorienting nightmare that derives its horror as much from its kaleidoscopic, alien architecture as its unsettling meditation…
‘Obsession’ feels like a dark-magic witch’s brew of Together, Fede Álvarez’s 2013 Evil Dead, and Big: a horrifying black comedy that takes…
David Lowery's hypnotic 'Mother Mary' is a breakup song filtered through the lens of a ghost story, mounted with spectacular production elements…
'I Swear', Kirk Jones’ biographical account of Tourette’s advocate John Davidson, is a moving and often very funny drama that finds compassion…
This 'Faces of Death' reimagining from Daniel Goldhaber isn’t going to convert any new horror fans, but this overtly schlocky, grindhouse B-movie…
A tired redux of decades of superior action-comedy movies, 'Normal' aspires to poke fun at the one-man army subset of the genre…
