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They Will Kill You (2026) 78% 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) 80% 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) 62% 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 Black Phone 2 (2025) 72% B- EDIT “The best things about this movie come from other movies, whether they be the creative team’s previous efforts or iconic titles from decades past. These elements are enjoyable, which is precisely why they’re recycled here.” – IndieWire Sep 21, 2025 Full Review
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