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3.5/5
When a Witness Recants (2026) Matt Donato The documentary’s power shines through in its final act, when Porter dares to push beyond the informality of talking heads.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Troublemaker (2026) Matt Donato It’s a daunting, overwhelming playbook that details how to disassemble oppressive regimes ... less a high school social studies essay and more an examination of the act of rebellion.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) William Bibbiani The pros don’t come from trustworthy sources and the cons require a lot more elaboration.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
The Weight (2026) Chase Hutchinson Throughout it all, Hawke is mesmerizing. The action scenes are tense and well-executed, though it’s the way he grounds it that makes you feel every setback.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
See You When I See You (2026) Chase Hutchinson There is a tension that comes from the humor clashing with the tragedy, but it’s a worthwhile one. Life is full of sudden loss and then also ridiculously funny moments. Capturing that authentically is no small feat, but Duplass does so with delicate care.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (2026) Chase Hutchinson Noah Segan’s "The Only Living Pickpocket in New York" is a film of rich pleasures, just as its protagonist is struggling to find any riches of his own.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026) Elizabeth Weitzman Extraordinary. As essential an historical document as you could ever hope to find, it should be considered required viewing for every American who has the slightest interest in our nation’s history, politics, or culture.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
Antiheroine (2026) Chase Hutchinson It’s a candid, compassionate and comprehensive portrait that, while somewhat standardly constructed, taps into something much more incisive than is common for this type of work.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Give Me the Ball! (2026) Matt Donato It’s an ode to perseverance and refusing to be told you can’t succeed ... King’s altruisms are the spark that keeps flames of protest and change ablaze.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
Run Amok (2026) Elizabeth Weitzman The film’s darkly comic bravado is undeniably bracing.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
Take Me Home (2026) Elizabeth Weitzman With its uniformly memorable performances and unusually persistent compassion, "Take Me Home" serves as a moving cri de coeur.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie (2026) Zachary Lee Through Rushdie’s path, we see a way to put our pain in its proper place, acknowledging that it does not have to be the sole way in which we’re defined by the world.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Rip (2026) Matt Goldberg Joe Carnahan's crime thriller feels like a nice throwback to '90s genre pictures, but it pulls a few too many punches.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
Ghost in the Machine (2026) Chase Hutchinson Valerie Veatch’s blistering "Ghost in the Machine" is a radical, necessary Molotov cocktail of a documentary that’s being thrown right into the heart of our nonsense, nightmarish world of overinflated AI hype.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Frank & Louis (2026) Matt Donato A sentimental glimpse into incarcerated lifestyles that stitches hope into a tapestry of emotional storytelling.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Gallerist (2026) Matt Donato It’s far-fetched and diabolical in the right moments, however stunted the overall execution becomes ... Perhaps not the perfect score, but a nifty, noxious endeavor nonetheless.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026) Matt Donato To dub "Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass" dumb fun is an honest-to-gosh compliment ... Wain and Marino concoct a comedic formula that harkens back to spoofy 1980s riots hinged on acceptable stupidity.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Chasing Summer (2026) Chase Hutchinson Though there are flashes of more chaotic comedy that get the pulse racing here and there, for the most part "Chasing Summer" is a surprisingly safe genre riff.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
The Friend's House Is Here (2026) Katie Rife 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.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Soul Patrol (2026) Elizabeth Weitzman Long overdue, and exceptionally moving.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Silenced (2026) Elizabeth Weitzman Miles' important documentary has undeniably essential stories to tell.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Nuisance Bear  (2026) Elizabeth Weitzman Undeniably affecting, and visually striking.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
undertone (2025) Chase Hutchinson Most podcasts remain disposable, yet this film about a truly cursed one captures not just the evil that may lurk within them, but wields a sonic power that, for the brave, is one you’ll want to listen back to.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Bedford Park (2026) Zachary Lee This is a deeply sincere film, one that avoids the cringe of melodrama by rooting all that transpires, the quiet and vociferous, elation and tragedy, in the lives of its characters.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Union County (2026) Chase Hutchinson At every turn, the film earns every emotional, lived-in development, instilling this slice-of-life portrait with such a quiet humanity that it can feel like you’re sitting at the tables and in the meeting rooms along with all the characters.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Invite (2026) Adam Chitwood An uproarious, deeply felt and impeccably crafted chamber piece that not only serves as Wilde’s best directorial work to date, but solidifies her as a major talent both in front of and behind the camera.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Musical (2026) Chase Hutchinson That this is Bonilla’s feature directorial debut makes one only hope she keeps making comedies like this, as every escalation, cutaway, and lighting cue is perfectly executed. Doug may be a terrible director, but she proves to be a great one.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
zi (2026) Chase Hutchinson As shot by his frequent collaborator, the cinematographer Benjamin Loeb, and cut together by Kogonada himself, "Zi" blurs the lines between tone poem and hangout movie, letting both merge together to become something unexpectedly moving.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Buddy (2026) Chase Hutchinson Each time you think you’re seeing the daylight of something potentially better to explore on the horizon, "Buddy" keeps dragging you back into the banal darkness. Like the kids, you deserve far better than whatever this lackluster production amounts to.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5
The Shitheads (2026) Matt Donato The Shitheads isn’t Macon Blair at his best, but it’s Macon Blair playing to his wheelhouse ... a high-floor, lower-ceiling experience for fans of the filmmaker.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Josephine (2026) Matt Donato Josephine is a special, hard-to-stomach yet immaculately handled movie that demands your attention ... fearlessness is Beth de Araújo’s superpower.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) Katie Rife 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.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Leviticus (2026) Chase Hutchinson Chiarella’s film is small in scope but shattering in emotional range, slowly burrowing under your skin. Once it makes its home there, there is no shaking free of its haunting, heartbreaking and surprisingly harmonious vision.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story (2026) Elizabeth Weitzman In less-experienced hands, Bamford's story might have been a midnight movie that played well to just a few admirers. But this moving doc happens to have been made by fans who know a thing or two about crafting a narrative.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
The Moment (2026) Chase Hutchinson It’s honest about the deception that is inherent to celebrity, confronting us with one compromise after another, building to a pitch-perfect finale needle-drop over a captivating monologue that elevates the comedy into a work of grand, messy ambition.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
I Want Your Sex (2026) Chase Hutchinson Even as the structure of the story creates a sense of inevitability to everything that can undercut the fun of seeing it fall apart, the often campy and heightened way each scene plays out means you’re always drawn in by something.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Saccharine (2026) Chase Hutchinson "Saccharine" is not a film that goes down easy, but you may just find yourself hungering to return for a second course to get a better sense of what James is serving up.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
The History of Concrete (2026) Chase Hutchinson Though an extension of the same tone that was experienced in his HBO series, this feature is more than just one very long episode of his show. Instead, it’s like Wilson has fully become a funnier, more frenetic version of Frederick Wiseman.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Carousel (2026) Chase Hutchinson With "Carousel," Lambert’s new romantic drama starring the excellent duo of Chris Pine and Jenny Slate, she strikes gold yet again.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Killer Whale (2026) William Bibbiani Almost nothing [Brechin] could do would spin this everyday hay into gold, but she can remind us why we keep hay around in the first place.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) William Bibbiani Nia DaCosta’s smart, freaky sequel zooms in on the ongoing battle between sense and senselessness until it finds strong, connective tissue between science and religion.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Primate (2025) William Bibbiani You could pick nits with 'Primate,' and I guess that would be thematically appropriate, but the film’s tight runtime and uncomplicated, visceral storytelling don’t give the mind any opportunity to wander.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Greenland 2: Migration (2026) William Bibbiani These 'Greenland' films may not always have a coherent point, but when they focus on the nuts and bolts of survival and the toll that surviving takes on these characters, they’re efficient, effectively crafted genre pictures.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Dutchman (2025) William Bibbiani It’s easy to appreciate the ambition of Gaines’ new take on 'Dutchman,' but the original tale is fighting back, and it’s got the upper hand.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
We Bury the Dead (2024) Matt Goldberg Zak Hilditch’s movie thrives on matters of grief and closure rather than typical undead thrills.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
A Private Life (2025) Ben Croll Though certain tonal leaps don’t always land, the film still offers plenty of fun, especially when centering around two exes more interested in each other than the case at hand.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
The Plague (2025) William Bibbiani I’d say if 'The Plague' wasn’t nominated for Best Original Score there’s something terribly wrong with the Oscars, but 'The Plague' didn’t even make the short list, so there’s just something terribly wrong with the Oscars.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Anaconda (2025) William Bibbiani This new 'Anaconda' is so busy talking about how silly it is to make a new 'Anaconda' that it never actually makes a good 'Anaconda."
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Song Sung Blue (2025) William Bibbiani Life is too damn hard to get so damn mad about a sweet, mostly effective drama like 'Song Sung Blue.'
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
The Housemaid (2025) William Bibbiani Glorious, angry, hilarious, nail-biting fun from a director, writer and cast who all know exactly what they’re doing, and relish in the fact that they’re practically getting away with murder.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
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