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Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) D. Patrick Rodgers What are we looking for in a film like Solo: A Star Wars Story? The answer, I think, is simple: Films that value a good story most of all. Solo may be entirely unnecessary, but at least it does that.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
We Bury the Dead (2024) Joe Nolan We Bury the Dead explores grief, love and unspoken conversations against a backdrop of mounting dread as the dangerous true nature of the outbreak is revealed.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Serpent's Skin (2025) Jason Shawhan Australian treasure Alice Maio Mackay is back with The Serpent’s Skin, a film that takes time-tested horror methodologies (cursed art) and you-are-there moments of queer youth color and lets them loose in a concept no one ever thought of before.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Sirāt (2025) Jason Shawhan Sirāt is not for everyone, but absolutely worth seeing in the biggest, loudest theater possible without reading anything else about it.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
I Only Rest in the Storm (2025) Jason Shawhan I Only Rest in the Storm is a perceptive docufiction that balances its discourse and its densely erotic vibe in a way that feels both alluring and brutal.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Sholay (1975) Jason Shawhan Sholay covers every base, works all the emotions, and even today, when Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra show up, thunderous ovations result.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Tinsman Road (2025) Jason Shawhan Banfitch’s Tinsman Road is about the journey that grief can drive us down, especially when Not Knowing can be just as horrifying as the secrets being kept.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Mother of Flies (2025) Jason Shawhan Mother of Flies is a modern folk-horror masterpiece about a family pushed to the brink by the one-two punch of cancer and the domestic health care system and driven to explore more witch-based treatment possibilities.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
The Love That Remains (2025) Jason Shawhan Writer-director Hlynur Pálmason is not afraid to let things get weirder as they go along (much like life), and Saga Garðarsdóttir grounds literal kitchen-sink realism and fanciful freakouts alike in a great performance.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Drunken Noodles (2025) Jason Shawhan Humorous and horny in equal measure, Drunken Noodles is the kind of queer art that (while it’s still legal) feels timeless and playful — a testament to the magical places the baser instincts can lead us.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Sentimental Value (2025) Jason Shawhan Sentimental Value makes you want to do better in your own circumstances; and more than that, it makes you want to watch it again.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator: Badlands (2025) Jason Shawhan A good monster can help smooth over all manner of cinematic oopsies, and Predator: Badlands is well aware that it needs to deliver action, thrills, sci-fi possibilities and a bunch of monsters at all times.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Die My Love (2025) Jason Shawhan This is another of those fearless films, echoed with a go-for-broke performance from Jennifer Lawrence that pulls no punches and doesn’t really care if you sympathize with her situation or responses to it.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Hamnet (2025) D. Patrick Rodgers Hamnet is a simple but affecting character study, thoughtfully rendered but elevated to year’s-best status by devastating performances from its two leads.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Bugonia (2025) D. Patrick Rodgers Bugonia is full of shocking surprises, steady laughs and captivating moments from Plemons and Stone, powered by screenwriter Will Tracy’s tight dialogue.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Hard Times (1975) Jim Ridley It's a terrific no-nonsense B picture that established Sam Peckinpah protege Hill's talent for classical action cinema, the kind with a comic book's graphic snap, crisp linear storytelling and clean bold lines.
Posted Sep 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Demons (1985) Jason Shawhan The fact that this is a delirious dive into the demonic that serves as a superb zombie movie just as easily? That’s like the finest sauce for an exceptional feast.
Posted Aug 18, 2025  Edit critic review
O.C. and Stiggs (1987) Jason Shawhan The thing about O.C. and Stiggs that allows it a certain kind of infamy is that it wasn’t made out of humane care, or surgical diagnosis, or even a vacation-disguised-as-a-shoot kind of lark. This is a movie made out of finely tended spite.
Posted Aug 18, 2025  Edit critic review
The Shrouds (2024) Jason Shawhan Regardless of where the ride of The Shrouds takes you and lets you out, this film flips all manner of switches in the subconscious and does not immediately vacate the premises.
Posted Aug 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Play It as It Lays (1972) Jason Shawhan There’s a melancholy to this film that feels undiluted by the intervening five-plus decades.
Posted Aug 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Eddington (2025) Jason Shawhan When Eddington starts relitigating the battles over masking, I could feel the bile rise. That’s because it’s not really about exploring ideas — it’s about how annoying masking is for otherwise decent folks.
Posted Aug 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Eli Roth Presents: Jimmy and Stiggs (2024) Jason Shawhan There are lots of films that address the messy tendencies of dude friendships and what happens when they meet unbreachable barriers, but none of them reach down into the bile and hurt and corrosive rage like Jimmy and Stiggs does.
Posted Aug 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Weapons (2025) Jason Shawhan Cregger has a maximalist streak that yields big dividends (see also 2011’s The Civil War on Drugs), one that uses the cinemascope frame in a way that keeps your gaze locked in on the refractions and revelations before us.
Posted Aug 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Hell of a Summer (2023) Jason Shawhan The feature debut from writing/directing/acting team Billy Bryk and Finn Wolfhard is neither rehash nor slash-by-numbers.
Posted Apr 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Misericordia (2024) Jason Shawhan The plot is smart, expertly constructed and very effective. But once you know the points on the graph where all that unfolds, Guiraudie and his cast are able to do something nearly alchemical.
Posted Apr 02, 2025  Edit critic review
The Monkey (2025) Jason Shawhan There’s something resigned about the universe Perkins gives us, with the comic tones finding a perfect balancing point between gleefully outrageous gorescapes and the kind of gallows humor you’d find in M*A*S*H or a particularly grisly Coen brothers film.
Posted Feb 19, 2025  Edit critic review
The Brutalist (2024) Craig D. Lindsey While The Brutalist may sound like a misery marathon, it’s really Corbet giving flowers to the immigrants who stuck it out and continue to stick it out.
Posted Feb 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Queer (2024) Jason Shawhan At this current historical moment, Queer is a work of radical theory and intent that, while it’s still legal, enriches the medium and cranks up all the conflicted emotional responses.
Posted Feb 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Nosferatu (2024) D. Patrick Rodgers Robert Eggers is not a filmmaker who’s going to approach a remake without something of his own to offer. Nosferatu has much to offer.
Posted Dec 26, 2024  Edit critic review
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023) Jason Shawhan Sasha getting her fangs is very relatable to anyone who spent years at the mercy of biochemistry and autonomic nervous responses.
Posted Nov 08, 2024  Edit critic review
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (2024) Jason Shawhan Family-friendly, rather charming and unafraid to point out that calcified church figureheads are often the stumbling blocks keeping people from the community and fellowship that faith should offer.
Posted Nov 08, 2024  Edit critic review
Anora (2024) D. Patrick Rodgers The journey toward Anora's ultimate destination is equal parts explicit, hilarious and heartbreaking.
Posted Oct 30, 2024  Edit critic review
MaXXXine (2024) Jason Shawhan There are some great images, and a couple of superb set pieces. But this is a film that absolutely could have used another rewrite and another 20 minutes of runtime.
Posted Oct 30, 2024  Edit critic review
Alien: Romulus (2024) Jason Shawhan This is a film that takes some time out for wonder and awe.
Posted Oct 30, 2024  Edit critic review
Red Rooms (2023) Jason Shawhan Though the movie isn’t exploring material all that different from a prime-time police procedural, it is engaging with the horror — and the rot that it represents — to an extent that TV simply wouldn’t bother.
Posted Oct 30, 2024  Edit critic review
The Substance (2024) Jason Shawhan There’s stuff in this film that will work on anyone, and some material that will work on everyone. But with the right kind of vibe, this is the kind of theatrical experience you treasure — one of those “remember when we saw that in a theater?” memories.
Posted Oct 30, 2024  Edit critic review
Saturday Night (2024) D. Patrick Rodgers Did all of this happen on a single night in 1975? Don’t be ridiculous. The real, the apocryphal, the semi-real and the completely fabricated all come together here in a mosaic that shows us how opening night felt.
Posted Oct 30, 2024  Edit critic review
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010) Matthew Wilder "A cascade of hidden personal backstories that you feel could extend out to all of humankind."
Posted Oct 23, 2024  Edit critic review
The Leopard (1963) Matthew Wilder "A picture in which all of experience seems shot through with the sweetness of the dearly departed, the already mourned."
Posted Oct 23, 2024  Edit critic review
Problemista (2023) Jason Shawhan This is a film that understands that cruelty and care can be two facets of the same blade.
Posted Jun 30, 2024  Edit critic review
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023) Jason Shawhan Make no mistake: This film is filled with the festering anger that comes from being on the business end of economic inequality, and we see without explanation how Bobiţa is both mirror and machete.
Posted Jun 30, 2024  Edit critic review
The Beast (2023) Jason Shawhan Bonello has a singular gift: He doesn’t make horror films, and yet he finds a way to make a scene of such unimaginable terror that it casts a tone on the whole rest of the movie.
Posted Jun 30, 2024  Edit critic review
KALKI (2024) Jason Shawhan A triumph of maximalism like an album by Queen, or a buffet at a restaurant where everything is good, Kalki 2898 A.D. is a lot.
Posted Jun 30, 2024  Edit critic review
Kinds of Kindness (2024) Jason Shawhan This kind of movie — an uncompromising art film about the unspeakable awfulness lurking just beneath everyone’s skin — doesn’t tend to happen on this scale very often.
Posted Jun 30, 2024  Edit critic review
The Watchers (2024) Jason Shawhan The Watchers never quite sticks the landing — it feels like it’s been cut back too far and then micro-retooled in several 10-second bursts.
Posted Jun 30, 2024  Edit critic review
In a Violent Nature (2024) Jason Shawhan When our killer starts cutting loose and winnowing down the cast, it becomes obvious that this film doesn’t really care about its artistic reach — it just wants to deliver baroque murderscapes that can outdo whatever else is currently in the zeitgeist.
Posted Jun 30, 2024  Edit critic review
Civil War (2024) D. Patrick Rodgers As it turns out, Civil War doesn’t say much of anything at all.
Posted Jun 30, 2024  Edit critic review
Challengers (2024) Jason Shawhan Nobody does fleshy uncertainty like Luca Guadagnino. And he’s found a great, razor-sharp script that lends itself to his gifts for vibrancy and internalized drama, as well as longtime cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom’s artistry with light.
Posted Jun 30, 2024  Edit critic review
The People's Joker (2022) Jason Shawhan If you look beyond the Smylex gas and the Lorne Michaels megalomania and the organized systems designed to stratify and control individual thought, The People’s Joker is still a visceral and visionary origin story.
Posted Jun 30, 2024  Edit critic review
Poor Things (2023) D. Patrick Rodgers Poor Things is wildly unique, disquieting and consistently hilarious. It’s one of the best films of the year. It just happens to also be one of the weirdest.
Posted Dec 14, 2023  Edit critic review
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