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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
B-
Cookie Queens (2026) Lauren Wissot It’s an engaging if well-trodden setup, enhanced by the director’s slick but artful aesthetics.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Fing! (2026) Katie Rife Bell gives her all to this performance -- it just happens to be in the service of playing a horrible little girl.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
One in a Million (2026) David Ehrlich A raw and absorbing epic about “what comes after” -- one that naturally unfolds with all the joy, anguish, and unresolvable inner conflict of life itself.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
Chasing Summer (2026) Ryan Lattanzio Chasing Summer feels like a blandly reassuring teen comedy... Decker’s recent push toward what you might call “happier” movies was compelled by personal changes in her life; it feels, though, like a grunge rocker turning into a Top 40 pop star.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026) Christian Zilko The nuance and specificity that makes the film so interesting is also why it requires a decent knowledge base to appreciate -- this is about as far from an introduction to the Harlem Renaissance as you’ll find.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Closure (2026) David Ehrlich An ultra-immersive portrait of grief, acceptance, and the role that hope can play in delaying them both, “Closure” soon eschews any familiar genre tropes in favor of following Daniel as he obsessively charts the shores of the Vistula in search of answers.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
Send Help (2026) Alison Foreman Wickedly lovable with the potential to be timeless, “Send Help” is controlled delirium microwaved on high heat. At 66, Raimi reminds us who he was when he made horror-comedy history with “Evil Dead II,” and more importantly, why his voice still matters.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026) Christian Zilko 25 years after "Wet Hot American Summer" premiered at Sundance, it's a relief to know that Wain and Marino are still at the absolute top of their game.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie (2026) Kate Erbland The revulsion that we feel toward this attack is, of course, baked right into the film, but Gibney often dances away from making it feel like a symptom of something wider.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
BURN (2026) Blake Simons Nagahisa imbues these characters with such earthy, lived-in existences that it’s frustrating to see the back half of his film hit grim and well-worn trauma tropes... irrespective of the richness of the earlier character writing.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
undertone (2025) Christian Zilko “Undertone” seems destined to live on as a film school case study... Its legacy as an actual film is much less clear. But even so, the creativity with which Tuason approached it is enough to leave this critic excited to see what he does next.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Union County (2026) Katie Rife Union County doesn’t completely bypass addiction-drama clichés. But its detailed, humanistic approach successfully creates a realistic world that supports its muted storytelling.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Frank & Louis (2026) David Ehrlich It’s the Ship of Theseus paradox in human form, its discrete parts held together by a quietly stirring drama that finds dignity in decay, and grace in the memory of men who the rest of society would sooner forget.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Wicker (2026) Ryan Lattanzio “Wicker” threatens to feel largely like a logline writ into something grander (i.e., a short story with a wild idea stretched into a feature), but these actors are irresistibly weird and wonderful, as only they could be.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
C-
The Gallerist (2026) Ryan Lattanzio One of those movies where the actors are having all the fun, clearly enamored with the chance at working together, while they forget to let the audience in on the entertainment.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Bedford Park (2026) Alison Foreman Anchored firmly in the Garden State despite its misleading, Bronx-based title, “Bedford Park” captures distinctly East Coast textures to create a lived-in world that ultimately feels deeper in its symbolic meaning than the two leads’ human emotion.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
The Shitheads (2026) David Ehrlich The Shitheads isn’t funny enough to earn its heightened cruelties, and its cruelties aren’t heightened enough to justify how little sense they make.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
The Invite (2026) Kate Erbland Wilde’s expressive face and big eyes tap into a Lucille Ball elasticity; the film would be funny enough if it was only its director turning in such a hilarious performance, but she’s hardly alone in this endeavour.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
B
zi (2026) David Ehrlich It’s a testament to Mao, Ha, and especially Richardson, that “Zi” retains even a soft dramatic pull as it searches for the present, though its recursive nature certainly wasn’t conceived with a casual audience in mind.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Barbara Forever (2026) Sam Bodrojan For gay cinephiles, it’s a historic gold mine, worth sifting through basically no matter the documentary’s actual quality. What a lovely relief it is, then, that the O’Connor’s film is worthy of its subject matter.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Nuisance Bear  (2026) Kate Erbland The imagery is startling. The story needs to hit even harder.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
D-
Return to Silent Hill (2026) Alison Foreman A cautionary tale: chilling proof that borrowing legendary video game symbolism without comparable skill remains the surest way to alienate a fanbase, on or off the console.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Extra Geography (2026) Esther Zuckerman “Extra Geography” is most thrilling when it leans into the undercurrent of nastiness that exists just beneath the manicured surface of this environment where properness is highly valued.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
Public Access (2026) Vikram Murthi Public Access frequently does a disservice to its actual material, which sits at the nexus of community service and avant-garde art, by having its sound and imagery constantly restate one another.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Leviticus (2026) Natalia Winkelman Leviticus is not a perfect horror film; its ending feels abrupt, and some side plots feel unfinished. Wasikowska, doing her best with a thin character, feels particularly overlooked. But the film’s moody atmosphere makes it an enjoyably disquieting ride.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant (2026) Katie Rife 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?
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
I Want Your Sex (2026) David Ehrlich A Gregg Araki movie will never be boring, and this one is a good time even when it’s tripping over itself to complicate its story and disguise the fact that it’s trying to serve as a teachable moment.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Buddy (2026) Christian Zilko It gets harder and harder to find something that feels fresh enough to be truly shocking and executed competently enough to transcend its gimmicks, and we should all celebrate when we find one.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
Josephine (2026) Kate Erbland If these questions sound heady and heavy, they are, but de Araújo’s masterful ability to interrogate tension on every level keeps the film clipping along, each turn both a surprise and an inevitability.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
The Oldest Person in the World (2026) David Ehrlich The film becomes a far more substantial thing when it begins to approach oblivion from both sides at once -- when it begins to poke at its own theory of relativity.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Saccharine (2026) Kate Erbland These ideas are big and ripe for the picking, but James’ interest in delivering a full meal verges on overstuffed. It’s haunting stuff, but perhaps not always in the intended ways.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) Kate Erbland It might not all flow in perfect step (insert ballroom dancing metaphors here), but “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!” offers an effervescent spirit so often missing in this milieu, with a lovely performance from Kikuchi at its center.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Everybody To Kenmure Street (2026) Josh Slater-Williams Despite the seriousness of the situation, “Everybody to Kenmure Street” is not a film without humor, much of it sardonic wit characteristic of the general Glaswegian disposition.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Lady (2026) Sophie Monks Kaufman If “Lady” is more successful as a series of interconnected vignettes, than as one fluid narrative, it has a moving ending up its sleeve.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Carousel (2026) Kate Erbland Carousel feels ripped from the fabric of a million lives. Don’t let the seemingly small nature of the film fool you; there is career-best work here, especially from Pine, who was always made for a romantic drama. This one was worth the wait.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
The History of Concrete (2026) David Ehrlich Much like the episodes of his show, Wilson’s consistently hilarious and sneakily profound The History of Concrete is sustained by an internal tension between order and entropy.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
Hanging by a Wire (2026) David Ehrlich Molded on E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s “The Rescue,” but sorely missing that film’s artful suspense and rich characterizations.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez (2026) Jake Cole Archival footage shows Valdez as an energetic presence in theaters and the frontlines of civil rights protests, and he retains much of that spry quality in the present as an 84-year-old gregariously telling his life story.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
C
Mercy (2026) Wilson Chapman The work of everyone involved -- from the sleepy performances to the crew doing an okay but never exemplary job -- suggests a first draft, a sense of wanting to get the thing out and move on.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
Night Patrol (2025) Alison Foreman This dark genre hybrid has a lot of flaws, but none of them are fatal. With “Night Patrol,” Prows drives a stake through the hearts of two familiar landscapes to try a unique idea with ever-prescient themes and a gamely frantic pulse.
Posted Jan 17, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
The Rip (2026) David Ehrlich This movie gets way too high on its own supply by the end, but for the better part of its runtime even the film’s silliest expressions of pathos are grounded by the emotional credibility of the relationship between its two leading men.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) David Ehrlich These movies have always been quick to remind us that people are much scarier than any of the monsters they might be afraid of, and “The Bone Temple” -- the least scary yet most disquieting of the lot -- is happy to flesh that out on both ends.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
C
Primate (2025) Alison Foreman Unnatural to the point of feeling emotionally alien, the script feels like a first draft made at full force. What’s worse, it’s chock full of disprovable “facts” that get lazier as they go.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
C
Greenland 2: Migration (2026) David Ehrlich To its significant detriment, “Migration” is a far more generic and action-oriented movie than its predecessor, which had the benefit of watching civilization get pulled apart at the seams.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
C
Anaconda (2025) David Ehrlich This self-reflexive Hollywood sendup is so slapdash and unsure of itself that it ultimately feels less like a bad in-joke than a case of a snake eating its own tail.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) Alison Foreman An audacious 2025 season capper for Cineverse and a solid achievement for Nelson, one that promises the director will give us more genre worth unwrapping down the line.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
B
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) Alison Foreman The comedy isn’t as dark or as smart as the animated series’ golden age (seasons 1, 2, and 3), but it casts a wide tonal net and catches a balanced effect that’s both familiar and fresh with an appealing that could work for any one of SpongeBob’s ages.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
The Housemaid (2025) Kate Erbland It’s diverting enough semi-shlock. It’s certainly interesting counter-programming for the holiday season. Pickier viewers might balk, however, as fine details aren’t exactly in high supply here.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) David Ehrlich [Expectations] didn’t prepare me for the reality of watching one of cinema’s greatest explorers walk in circles for three hours, even if Cameron -- being Cameron -- naturally finds a way to make that journey feel novel and invigorating at times.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
Casanova (2015) Liz Shannon Miller Agonizingly slow and far too reliant on nonexistent sexual chemistry to sustain interest, "Casanova" feels like a show that's trying to borrow from every genre because it lacks a clear identity of its own.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
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