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2.5/5
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Return to Silent Hill
(2026)
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Matthew Monagle
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"There is a spark of the divine in the production, an inventiveness in bringing the city of Silent Hill alive on the screen that makes it impossible to rule out altogether."
Posted Jan 23, 2026
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4/5
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Siddhant Adlakha
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DaCosta may not break new stylistic ground the way Boyle has in the past, but her skillful balance between the extremes of misery and euphoria makes for a rapturous studio oddity.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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3.5/5
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Primate
(2025)
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Matthew Monagle
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'Primate' is a small miracle of costume design and performance, turning a silly concept into a genuinely tense game of cat and mouse (or, well, monkey and human).
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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2.5/5
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We Bury the Dead
(2024)
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Matthew Monagle
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Hilditch’s latest fails to meet the moment in a genre increasingly dominated by post-pandemic allegories for survivor’s guilt.
Posted Jan 04, 2026
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4/5
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Keeper
(2025)
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Matthew Monagle
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'Keeper' will be a gift to everyone on Perkins’s wavelength.
Posted Nov 16, 2025
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2.5/5
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Shelby Oaks
(2023)
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Siddhant Adlakha
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The novice filmmaker wears his influences on his sleeve, and proves occasionally adept at tightening the story’s screws. Unfortunately, it doesn’t quite work in the end, but if nothing else, it makes for a sincere first effort.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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3/5
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Affection
(2025)
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Matthew Monagle
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Rothe once again flashes the full range of her genre starpower, and Meza equates himself well as a first-time director.
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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3.5/5
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HIM
(2025)
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Matthew Monagle
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Much of 'Him' unfolds as the kind of fever dream that would make Nicolas Winding Refn proud.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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3.5/5
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Beast of War
(2025)
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Matthew Monagle
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'Beast of War' is a shining example of how to turn a simple concept into one of the stronger creature features you’ll see all year.
Posted Sep 26, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Vile
(2025)
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Matthew Monagle
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Al Ansari’s sophomore feature is another example of how a few good actors and a well-dressed set is more than enough to create genre cinema that colors outside the lines.
Posted Sep 26, 2025
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2.5/5
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Coyotes
(2025)
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Matthew Monagle
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It’s hard to imagine 'Coyotes' being a successful crowdpleaser at a festival which celebrates analog technology and practical effects above all else.
Posted Sep 21, 2025
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3/5
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The Conjuring: Last Rites
(2025)
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Matt Donato
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It still lacks that special James Wan punch when it comes to jump-in-your-seat scares, but Michael Chaves sends the elder Warrens off proper if this is truly their goodbye.
Posted Sep 07, 2025
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3.5/5
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Cloud
(2024)
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Matthew Monagle
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The slow build of 'Cloud' makes it clear that the road to hell is paved with good discounts.
Posted Aug 11, 2025
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4/5
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Weapons
(2025)
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Matthew Monagle
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Cregger’s second film proves that the first was not a fluke and establishes him as one of the more ambitious horror storytellers of this generation.
Posted Aug 10, 2025
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3.5/5
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Hellcat
(2025)
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Matthew Monagle
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Hellcat, the debut of writer-director Brock Bodell, is a crafty exercise in how to withhold information from your audience while not talking down to them.
Posted Jul 26, 2025
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3.5/5
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Redux Redux
(2025)
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Matthew Monagle
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'Redux Redux' is a film with big ideas (common) that is capable of seeing its vision through onscreen (less so).
Posted Jul 23, 2025
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3/5
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The Surfer
(2024)
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Matt Donato
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The Surfer is a strange, salty brew with exploitation vibes aimed at bullheaded toxic masculinity.
Posted Mar 26, 2025
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3/5
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Ash
(2025)
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Matthew Monagle
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"Ash feels like more of a multi-disciplinary approach to genre than we’re used to – where video games and film are equal fodder for a new lexicon of science fiction and horror."
Posted Mar 22, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Damned
(2024)
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Matt Donato
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A 19th-century Nordic thriller rooted in dreary folklore that hardly blazes forward ... Palsson's tiny fishing community haunting bathes in slinking dread.
Posted Jan 22, 2025
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3.5/5
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MadS
(2024)
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Matthew Monagle
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Moreau imbues his film with little touches of dreamlike logic, playing with chronology or audio cues to make each experience a subjective hellscape for his three teenage leads.
Posted Oct 17, 2024
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2/5
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Azrael
(2024)
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Matthew Monagle
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While 'Azrael’s nonverbal approach to the apocalypse might not elevate the material in the way the filmmakers hoped, it is still a hell of a showcase for horror’s favorite final girl.
Posted Sep 26, 2024
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3.5/5
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Párvulos: Children of the Apocalypse
(2024)
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Matthew Monagle
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'Párvulos' is not a cruel movie. It’s just one willing to take seriously the notion of growing up in an unsafe world.
Posted Sep 25, 2024
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4/5
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Heretic
(2024)
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Matthew Monagle
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Watching Grant fence verbally with East and Thatcher – sometimes advancing, sometimes retreating, but always taking stock of his opponents’ defenses – is funny, unnerving, and oddly persuasive.
Posted Sep 24, 2024
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2.5/5
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Never Let Go
(2024)
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Matthew Monagle
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For as strong as its performances might be, 'Never Let Go' fails to ever coalesce into the ambitious low-fi apocalypse narrative it is so desperately chasing.
Posted Sep 23, 2024
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3.5/5
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The Rule of Jenny Pen
(2024)
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Matthew Monagle
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For those stretches when the film works – when Lithgow’s dead eyes speak to countless cruelties and the film taps into the true injustice of growing old – 'The Rule of Jenny Pen' is the kind of big swing you love to see from modern horror filmmakers.
Posted Sep 21, 2024
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3.5/5
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Ghost Killer
(2024)
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Matthew Monagle
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While the sum of the parts may still be better than the whole, 'Ghost Killer' keeps the energy pointing forward, with a dynamic conclusion that lands as well as any action movie from the past decade.
Posted Sep 20, 2024
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4/5
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Cuckoo
(2024)
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Matthew Monagle
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For those who like their horror to be slippery – full of ideas that do not fit neatly into one box or genre label – 'Cuckoo' will be one of the highlights of the year.
Posted Aug 09, 2024
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4/5
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Longlegs
(2024)
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Matthew Monagle
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'Longlegs' is a welcome marriage between Oz Perkins and Nicolas Cage, whose instincts for restraint and excess (respectively) are in perfect balance.
Posted Jul 18, 2024
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TerrorVision
(1986)
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Jessica Scott
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Zany, hilarious, and bizarre, TerrorVision is both a celebration and a subversion of the classic creature feature.
Posted Aug 16, 2022
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