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Dead Lover (2025) 84% 3/4 EDIT “It’s an absurd film, but also a romantic and quietly radical one. ” – RogerEbert.com Mar 23, 2026 Full Review They Will Kill You (2026) 76% B- EDIT “Once the overstimulation sets in, it’s difficult to move beyond it, and the resulting numbness may explain how a film that has so much going on can go from exhilarating to underwhelming over the course of 94 action-packed minutes. ” – IndieWire Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Hokum (2026) 95% B+ EDIT “It’s just a good old-fashioned ghost story, the kind you’d tell over a campfire to scare children. And it’s a hair-raising one at that. ” – IndieWire Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Over Your Dead Body (2026) 73% C EDIT “This is a glib and insincere effort, trying to graft a fun moviegoing experience onto a depressing story about hateful people reveling in each other’s pain. Again, this could be entertaining in the right hands. Here, it just feels smug.” – IndieWire Mar 16, 2026 Full Review Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) 73% B- EDIT “This movie is best watched in pajamas, perhaps with a container of takeout on your lap.” – IndieWire Mar 16, 2026 Full Review Family Movie (2026) 91% EDIT “Working from a story by Bacon and Sedgwick, screenwriter Dan Beers incorporates some genuinely funny lines, which the cast sells with unselfconscious commitment.” – TheWrap Mar 14, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 72% B EDIT “In this way, undertone is the perfect horror film for our era, one in which superstition and technology not only coexist, but feed one another. ” – AV Club Mar 9, 2026 Full Review Dolly (2025) 63% 2/4 EDIT “It is quite repellant, which in this case can be read as a compliment; it is what Blackhurst was going for, after all. Scratch the surface, however, and it’s less flattering, one predictable element among many in this utterly predictable film. ” – RogerEbert.com Mar 6, 2026 Full Review Pillion (2025) 99% B+ EDIT “Pillion is a film about self-knowledge, and about asserting one’s needs and boundaries without shame. ” – AV Club Feb 5, 2026 Full Review 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) 100% 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) 97% 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) 94% 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) 94% 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) 94% 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) 94% 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) 92% 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) 85% 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) 68% 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
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