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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Vampires of the Velvet Lounge (2026) Charles Johnston This loathsome film is as if a Spirit Halloween store was a movie and barely qualifies as schlock entertainment.
Posted Mar 25, 2026  Edit critic review
Miroirs No. 3 (2025) Joseph Neff Miroirs No. 3 is a minor film, but this is deliberate; it gathers weight through the accumulation of small pleasures.
Posted Mar 25, 2026  Edit critic review
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) Josh Goller Yorgos Lanthimos' spare, absurd and tragic film explores the fragility of human constructs and the illusion of control through characters who suppress emotion until they crack and the world crumbles.
Posted Mar 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Touch Me (2025) Bill Cooper Though Touch Me’s concept is intriguing and potentially hard-hitting, the film is distracted from both a visual and storytelling perspective.
Posted Mar 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Late Shift (2025) Daniel Pemberton Late Shift is a rigorous and anxiety-inducing portrait of a nurse's grueling shift at an understaffed Swiss hospital, with unflinching depictions of the everyday calculus of hospital labor amid a failing system.
Posted Mar 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Two Prosecutors (2025) Ria Dhull Sergei Loznitsa’s return to fiction is a masterclass in technique.
Posted Mar 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Tow (2025) A.C. Koch While Tow is a compelling lesson in economic precarity in the teeth of crushing capitalism, it's less absorbing as a piece of cinema.
Posted Mar 23, 2026  Edit critic review
The Pout-Pout Fish (2026) Joel Copling The Pout-Pout Fish's simply defined characters inhabit a basic storyline, executed with equally basic computer animation.
Posted Mar 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Bushido (2024) Daniel Pemberton Shiraishi's film is a lovingly crafted, albeit inconsistent, samurai drama that fans of the genre will enjoy.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Scared to Death (2024) Josh Goller There might be the makings of a guilty pleasure buried deep within this material, but unfortunately, that’s something Scared to Death is nowhere near capable of conjuring.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Seasons of Glory (2024) Joseph Neff Jaafar’s film invites obvious comparisons to Hoop Dreams, although it is ultimately less impressive in its hybrid of competently executed documentary conventionalities.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Jimpa (2025) Sparks Lowry Jimpa functions as a chance to recapture memory, paint over experiences both possessed and eluded by director Sophie Hyde, but she seems to have no idea what to do with those experiences.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
The Dreadful (2026) Sparks Lowry A quasi-remake of a much better Japanese horror film strips its source material of any complexity, idiosyncrasy and nuance.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
The Gates (2026) Sparks Lowry The Gates does a perfectly adequate job as a vehicle for both James Van Der Beek, in his last role, and its true lead actors, but struggles with its vision.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead (2026) Joel Copling Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead is crushed by the weight of its own franchise aspirations, conflating lengthy exposition and omnipresent narration with worldbuilding.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Slanted (2025) Charles Johnston This ferocious cross between The Substance and Carrie, bolstered by top-notch performances, plays like a sustained primal scream.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Reminders of Him (2026) Joseph Neff Reminders of Him is far from a great movie, but neither is it a misbegotten failure.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
André Is an Idiot (2025) Bill Cooper Tony Benna and André Ricciardi have created a humorous and poignant film about what it means to be human by covering a topic that many avoid talking about in modern society.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) David Harris Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is less about ideology and more about the classic Schrader hero: a man who feels isolated from society and, with no other choice, destroys himself.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
Pompei: Below the Clouds (2025) Erik Reeds A gorgeous but languorous exploration of Neapolitan everyday life, this documentary can sometimes spend a little too much time observing.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Dolly (2025) Alan Zilberman Too many horror movies nowadays attempt to recreate classics without really considering the context that made them special in the first place. Dolly is not shy about its influences, but at least it has the wherewithal and imagination to expand on them.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) Alan Zilberman It is a steampunk-adjacent kind of jukebox musical, with satisfying moments that alternate between ridiculous and sublime.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Youngblood (2025) Charles Johnston On the ice, the sports drama of Youngblood is immersive. Off the ice, it’s restrained and anemic.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Heel (The Good Boy) (2025) Joel Copling Heel might shout its themes directly at the audience, but that’s less important than the clever and thoughtful thriller it becomes.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
THE BRIDE! (2026) Alan Zilberman A bizarre assemblage of tics and feminine fury, Buckley gives the worst performance of her impressive career, although it is not her fault. Not entirely, anyway.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Operation Taco Gary's (2024) Joel Copling Despite an entertaining performance by a game Simon Rex, Operation Taco Gary’s doesn’t really have much of a point beyond its own, very silly jokes.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Undercard (2025) Ria Dhull Multiple storylines are packed tightly into the plot, but none are given nearly enough time to develop.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Napa Boys (2025) Alan Zilberman It has many satirical targets, and the method of attack often seems random – sometimes with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, sometimes with the precision of a surgeon’s scalpel.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Bring the Law (2026) Joel Copling This is far from the worst example of this type of movie, but one wishes that its makers would force their film out of its style-starved confines and give us something exciting and fresh.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
For Worse (2025) Charles Johnston This low-budget rom-com was made with the spirit of nothing left to lose and comes with all the refreshing honesty that promises.
Posted Mar 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Dreams (2025) Tanner Gordon Issues notwithstanding, Dreams is effective enough as a thematic statement to be modestly successful.
Posted Feb 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Diabolic (2025) Joel Copling Diabolic is an ungodly, shockingly incoherent mess that falls flat even by the standards of empty genre exercise.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
This Is Not a Test (2025) Ria Dhull Olivia Holt’s fantastic lead performance does little to save Adam MacDonald’s stilted screenplay and confused direction.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Midwinter Break (2026) Jesse Doppelt Midwinter Break feels refreshing and authentic in showing an ordinary erosion of love, but it feels like the film ran out of runway before delivering a strong message on its themes.
Posted Feb 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Redux Redux (2025) A.C. Koch Redux Redux is a revenge story, centered on a sympathetic pair of wronged characters, but the time travel trope serves less as a plot engine than as an escape hatch for avoiding story logic.
Posted Feb 23, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
How to Make a Killing (2026) Alan Zilberman Watching a criminal get away with theft and murder can be funny, as long it arrives with the requisite charm. Powell and Ford never find that, and we are left with wooden performance surrounded by incomplete subplots. Where did it all go wrong?
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
By Design (2025) Erik Reeds By Design is an interesting and forward-thinking work, even if it does come off as a bit of a missed opportunity at times.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
My Father's Shadow (2025) Holly Hazelwood A work of autofiction, Akinola Davies Jr.'s film is by no means a vacation, and many of the struggles it depicts are ever-present.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Hunting Jessica Brok (2025) Joel Copling Hunting Jessica Brok is exhausting and tedious as its action scenes go on and on (and on some more).
Posted Feb 18, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Mimics (2025) Alan Zilberman The biggest testament to this film’s overwhelming ineptitude is how the unintentional anti-climax barely registers as a problem because much of what preceded it is already that much worse.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) Tanner Gordon In this pseudo-sci-fi saga of two idiotic, loveable strivers, Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol have achieved something that’s genuinely awe-inspiring.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Cold Storage (2026) Joseph Neff In terms of good-taste subversion, Cold Storage is nearer to Troma than John Waters.
Posted Feb 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) Joel Copling Matthew Robinson and Gore Verbinksi don’t just look at our world and find a reason to give warning, they see it as a five-alarm fire.
Posted Feb 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Wuthering Heights (2026) Ria Dhull About halfway through this much-anticipated adaptation, Emerald Fennell finds her focus.
Posted Feb 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977) Josh Goller If you’re hunting for a singular horror oddity, don’t sleep on Death Bed.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Fiend of Dope Island (1961) Pat Padua Generates more than enough tropical fever to make its taut 76-minute runtime consistently entertaining, embodying the Herzogian quote from one of its supporting characters: "There’s a thin line sometimes between human and beast."
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Calle Málaga (2025) Joseph Neff Calle Málaga is a film to savor, in both its sincere humanism and its refusal to soften the harsh realities it presents.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
The Roaring Game (2025) Joel Copling The Roaring Game has such an easy target that one wonders how writer/director Tommy DeNucci could have so wildly missed his mark.
Posted Feb 10, 2026  Edit critic review
The President's Cake (2025) Erik Reeds There are, in the film’s conclusion, fleeting portraits of generosity and humanity in Hadi’s portrayal of his home country, but it’s unclear what the overarching purpose of this story is.
Posted Feb 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Whistle (2025) Josh Goller Whistle makes for a stale, by-the-numbers horror trifle that only resonates in sporadic, fleeting bursts.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
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