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Tow (2025) 81% EDIT “The cleverness opens your receptors to the message, which concerns the hypocrisy of a stifling bureaucratic labyrinth that favors those who can hire lawyers to circumvent or even restructure said labyrinth.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Mar 20, 2026 Full Review Islands (2025) 94% EDIT “ While you’re trying to solve a mystery that might not even exist, Gerster proffers a moving and atmospheric character study.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Mar 20, 2026 Full Review Pompei: Below the Clouds (2025) 97% EDIT “ In "Below the Clouds," the tangible and figurative cohabitate freely.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Mar 16, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 72% EDIT “If you longed to have "Sinister" remade as a filmed podcast, "undertone" has you covered.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Mar 16, 2026 Full Review Dolly (2025) 62% EDIT “With "Dolly" it’s stalking and slashing as usual, with the occasional bonbon of perversity that’s also on loan from other weird movies. I’ve seen much better and much worse. ” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Mar 6, 2026 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 91% EDIT “Imagine the 1950s-era French masterwork "The Wages of Fear" with a wicked house beat.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Mar 6, 2026 Full Review Videoheaven (2025) 85% EDIT “At the root of "Videoheaven" is the visceral need to roam around in video stores again. And Perry, who once worked at the iconic Kim’s Video in New York City, satiates it as much as anyone in his situation could.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Feb 27, 2026 Full Review Dreams (2025) 52% EDIT “Like most modern erotic thrillers, "Dreams" wants points for being provocative yet is afraid of itself. ” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Feb 27, 2026 Full Review Bunny (2025) 80% EDIT “"Bunny" gains ground upon retrospection, its slightness growing into grace.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Honey Bunch (2025) 92% EDIT “The accomplished gothic atmosphere establishes a rapport between the movie and the audience. You lean back and enjoy the mystery, assuming you’re in good hands. ” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 82% EDIT “If you believe that "Black Mirror" hasn’t been stale for years, this movie might work for you.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Feb 13, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 88% EDIT “These vivid characters distinguish "Crime 101" as being especially high-grade brand Michael Mann karaoke, complete with nighttime vistas and metallic city chic.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Feb 13, 2026 Full Review Bride of Re-Animator (1990) 56% EDIT “Bride of Re-Animator is a cold and limp retread of the first film.” – Slant Magazine Feb 11, 2026 Full Review Whistle (2025) 63% EDIT “The (nonsensical) specificity feels desperate, reverse-engineered for sequences of carnage that are passable yet neutered by the vanilla CGI that continues to be the bane of the modern horror movie. ” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Dracula (2025) 54% EDIT “I had some fun with this thing.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Secret Mall Apartment (2024) 98% EDIT “Director Jeremy Workman teases the story out cleverly, with a flashback structure that allows your sense of Townsend and this mall stunt to gradually deepen.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Peter Hujar's Day (2025) 91% EDIT “"Peter Hujar’s Day" is not a lifeless museum piece slash rarefied art experiment. Hujar’s stories are arresting because we are accorded a double vision of what he says and how he says it.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jan 30, 2026 Full Review House II: The Second Story (1987) 15% 4/5 EDIT “The film's scattershot, anything-goes approach is occasionally amusing, but horror fans will probably feel baited-and-switched with a title that promises something a little harder-edged.” – Slant Magazine Jan 30, 2026 Full Review House (1985) 49% 4/5 EDIT “Katt holds House together with his force of personality, but Roger’s semi-comic, semi-poignant unflappability robs the film of emotional stakes. ” – Slant Magazine Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 92% EDIT “There’s a fine line between understanding the rage that creates a Kiritsis and giving into blood lust as a means of condescension, and the filmmakers here cross it.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 79% EDIT “For the most part, "The Rip" is crime-movie sludge as usual.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “We’ve got plenty of stylish international thrillers, even if few of them are at Park’s level of play, while art that’s in tune with the widening gulf between the gilded set and the working class is in short supply.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 82% EDIT “It suggests a submerged New Yorker story with crunchy bits of Jarmusch’s boutique-hipster precision. ” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jan 9, 2026 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “This is a spicy movie, less a story of white collar drones than a full-blooded thriller with jolts of sex and horror and tragedy and surrealism that are tied together by a sense of the absurd that suits authoritarian and fascist regimes. ” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Cover-Up (2025) 98% EDIT “If these words sound contradictory, that gives you an idea of what Obenhaus and Poitras manage to do here: wrestle with a person’s irresolvable textures onscreen.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review
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