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Katie Rife

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Fing! (2026) B- EDIT “Bell gives her all to this performance -- it just happens to be in the service of playing a horrible little girl.” – IndieWire Jan 27, 2026 Full Review The Friend's House Is Here (2026) EDIT “Although this is a story about innocence lost, the overwhelming impression left by “The Friend’s House is Here” is one of sweetness and hope.” – TheWrap Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Union County (2026) 100% B EDIT “Union County doesn’t completely bypass addiction-drama clichés. But its detailed, humanistic approach successfully creates a realistic world that supports its muted storytelling. ” – IndieWire Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant (2026) 100% B- EDIT “It all builds to a snorter of a punchline that isn’t particularly deep, but is satisfying. At the end, all that’s left is a question: Is it worse to be alien pregnant, or the regular human kind? ” – IndieWire Jan 25, 2026 Full Review Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) 91% EDIT “Whenever the quirk threatens to overwhelm the emotion in Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!, Kubota Wladyka turns the camera onto his star’s face, and she almost invariably brings it back into balance.” – TheWrap Jan 24, 2026 Full Review Mother of Flies (2025) 96% B EDIT “The result is occult horror as potent as the snake venom in one of Selveig’s dreadful “cures.”” – AV Club Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Sound of Falling (2025) 95% EDIT “The profound sorrow of Schilinski’s film comes on slowly, but it clings to the viewer after the movie has ended like the smell of smoke on a winter coat. ” – AV Club Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% B- EDIT “Accompanied by Danny Elfman’s jazzy score, the [opening] sequence feels genuinely dangerous... On the whole, however, “Dead Man’s Wire” has trouble maintaining suspense beyond that breathtaking opener.” – IndieWire Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) 84% EDIT “... there’s some actual substance behind all that glittering style. ” – Dread Central Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Blue Boy Trial (2025) EDIT “Nakagawa—also playing a character named Sachi—is the star witness, and her emotional arc as she goes from quietly passing to publicly claiming her trans identity is both convincing and deeply affecting.” – RogerEbert.com Nov 12, 2025 Full Review We Are the Fruits of the Forest (2025) EDIT “The rawness of the film’s environmental message is reflected in its unadorned hand-held camerawork, shot up close and among the people over four immersive years. ” – RogerEbert.com Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Mother Bhumi (2025) EDIT “Unless you’re the kind of cinephile who can justify a two-hour film as sort of a slow-motion art exhibit, Chong’s film will likely defy both patience and sense. ” – RogerEbert.com Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Morte Cucina (2025) B EDIT “Like going into a restaurant in a country where you don’t speak the language, pointing at an item on a menu, and being served a steaming-hot place of delicious food: You might not know how you got there, but the experience is pleasurable nonetheless. ” – IndieWire Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Mistress Dispeller (2024) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “It’s about the mysteries of the human heart. Its exploration of these subtle depths is sensitive, as are its conclusions. ” – RogerEbert.com Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Are We Good? (2025) 97% B- EDIT “In “Are We Good?,” even the confessional segments have an undercurrent of resistance to them -- an interesting dynamic, but one that this filmmaker doesn’t know what to do with. ” – IndieWire Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Dracula (2025) 66% 3/4 EDIT “It’s a slop movie made for a slop world, and Jude’s contempt for the tools that are facilitating this slop-pocalypse is tangible. ” – RogerEbert.com Sep 28, 2025 Full Review Black Phone 2 (2025) 72% B- EDIT “The best things about this movie come from other movies, whether they be the creative team’s previous efforts or iconic titles from decades past. These elements are enjoyable, which is precisely why they’re recycled here.” – IndieWire Sep 21, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% B EDIT “Del Toro’s love for the grotesque and the abject is sincere and passionate, and there are scenes in Frankenstein that play like thesis statements for the director’s entire career. ” – AV Club Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Normal (2025) 83% B- EDIT “Like a firecracker with a long fuse, “Normal” builds up, burns fast, makes a big noise, and then it’s gone. ” – IndieWire Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) 100% B EDIT “Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie is so affable, so good-natured, so modest—just so gosh-darned charming—that it’s difficult not to crack at least a little bit of a smile while watching it. ” – AV Club Sep 8, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% C+ EDIT “Unfortunately, however, “Roofman” also capitulates to the feel-good demands of Hollywood storytelling, leaving the pricklier aspects of Manchester’s story on the table. And the film is forgettable as a result. ” – IndieWire Sep 7, 2025 Full Review Erupcja (2025) 85% B+ EDIT “Everything comes together as it should, which is a testament to the cast’s intuitive and collaborative abilities as well as their director’s. ” – AV Club Sep 5, 2025 Full Review Mile End Kicks (2025) 100% B EDIT “This is a movie that can’t believe how dumb smart women act when there’s a man putting in the absolute bare minimum involved. ” – IndieWire Sep 5, 2025 Full Review Harvest (2024) 74% 3/4 EDIT “Harvest can feel interminable even when a viewer is engaged with its ideas. But it does bring them to vivid, even bawdy, life. ” – RogerEbert.com Aug 1, 2025 Full Review Riff Raff (2024) 55% EDIT “A big part of why Riff Raff doesn’t click is the cast, full of big names who all appear hungover or exhausted or just not very engaged with their work.” – The Daily Beast Jun 10, 2025 Full Review
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