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RZA's One Spoon of Chocolate
(2025)
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Craig D. Lindsey
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Even though I give RZA points for attempting to create cinematic rotgut for lovers of both White Elephant and Termite Art, Chocolate is one of the most biting-off-more-than-it-can-chew movies I’ve ever seen.
Posted Apr 30, 2026
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Miroirs No. 3
(2025)
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Craig D. Lindsey
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I can see this film being a favorite for both cineastes and moviegoers looking for a good cry. It reminds me of those tearjerking, family-drama features Hollywood used to make before clogging multiplexes with the latest hot IP.
Posted Apr 30, 2026
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Project Hail Mary
(2026)
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Craig D. Lindsey
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Just like The Martian, it’s a smart, sympathetic story about being there for your fellow man, whether you’re in space or on solid ground, and starring a guy who — even when he’s being too gotdamn perfect — you root for right to the end.
Posted Apr 30, 2026
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Scream 7
(2026)
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Jason Shawhan
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Is this a good Scream sequel? Yeah, it’s better than it has any right to be, putting aside the messy circumstances that led to it even existing. But can such a thing be done? More so, should it?
Posted Apr 30, 2026
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Dreams
(2025)
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Sadaf Ahsan
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Dreams may not be subtle, but it is precise — beautifully shot, emotionally bruising and unafraid to show the audience how we’re complicit in this system. It’s an erotic thriller with real consequences
Posted Apr 30, 2026
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Dracula
(2025)
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Joe Nolan
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It offers a fresh take on the undead aristocrat that balances period eye candy with bloody thrills. Its combination of elaborate costumes, action, gallows humor and horror makes this the Valentine’s Day date movie everyone can sink their teeth into.
Posted Apr 30, 2026
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Resurrection
(2025)
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Craig D. Lindsey
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This film is Bi’s salute to his fellow cinematic dream-weavers, done as ambitiously and audaciously as possible — a big-screen bouillabaisse that’ll certainly make cinephiles giddy.
Posted Apr 30, 2026
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The Testament of Ann Lee
(2025)
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Jason Shawhan
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Fastvold and her cast aren’t about making thought points — they’ve got a story to tell, a captivating one. But anyone who’s been horrified by what is continually done in the name of religion is going to find a lot here to grab hold of.
Posted Apr 30, 2026
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Is This Thing On?
(2025)
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Craig D. Lindsey
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What should’ve been a film about two people rediscovering what brought them together by rediscovering themselves becomes a weird, bitter trip through middle-aged matrimonial hell.
Posted Apr 30, 2026
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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Jason Shawhan
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There are big archetypes to be had that have worked in maximalist cinema since the ’50s, and that’s part of why these films are the biggest movies of all time. And this is more of the same, for good and for ill.
Posted Apr 30, 2026
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Peter Hujar's Day
(2025)
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Jason Shawhan
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Peter Hujar’s Day is a biography unlike any you’ve previously seen on screen — maddening for some and transcendent for others, shaped by national treasure/director Ira Sachs
Posted Apr 30, 2026
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Faces of Death
(2026)
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Jason Shawhan
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But when you sum it all up, this is a film that has something on its mind, and it’s aiming to be something more than you might expect from a movie steeped in the iconography and legacy of something like Faces of Death.
Posted Apr 30, 2026
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The Christophers
(2025)
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Jason Shawhan
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This is a film that understands and loves artists’ spaces. Cluttered museums for an audience of one, these are the places we usually get to see only idealized versions of.
Posted Apr 30, 2026
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Dead Lover
(2025)
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Jason Shawhan
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But even putting all of this aside, Dead Lover works because you want the gravedigger to be happy. She’s spiky and defines her own glam, and you can’t really blame her for wanting to be loved
Posted Apr 30, 2026
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Exit 8
(2025)
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Jason Shawhan
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If you’ve been waiting for there to be a new vision in horror that comes along and Cubes things up, this one is totally for you.
Posted Apr 21, 2026
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Solo: A Star Wars Story
(2018)
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D. Patrick Rodgers
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What are we looking for in a film like Solo: A Star Wars Story? The answer, I think, is simple: Films that value a good story most of all. Solo may be entirely unnecessary, but at least it does that.
Posted Jan 07, 2026
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We Bury the Dead
(2024)
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Joe Nolan
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We Bury the Dead explores grief, love and unspoken conversations against a backdrop of mounting dread as the dangerous true nature of the outbreak is revealed.
Posted Jan 06, 2026
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The Serpent's Skin
(2025)
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Jason Shawhan
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Australian treasure Alice Maio Mackay is back with The Serpent’s Skin, a film that takes time-tested horror methodologies (cursed art) and you-are-there moments of queer youth color and lets them loose in a concept no one ever thought of before.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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Sirāt
(2025)
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Jason Shawhan
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Sirāt is not for everyone, but absolutely worth seeing in the biggest, loudest theater possible without reading anything else about it.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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I Only Rest in the Storm
(2025)
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Jason Shawhan
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I Only Rest in the Storm is a perceptive docufiction that balances its discourse and its densely erotic vibe in a way that feels both alluring and brutal.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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Sholay
(1975)
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Jason Shawhan
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Sholay covers every base, works all the emotions, and even today, when Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra show up, thunderous ovations result.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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Tinsman Road
(2025)
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Jason Shawhan
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Banfitch’s Tinsman Road is about the journey that grief can drive us down, especially when Not Knowing can be just as horrifying as the secrets being kept.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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Mother of Flies
(2025)
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Jason Shawhan
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Mother of Flies is a modern folk-horror masterpiece about a family pushed to the brink by the one-two punch of cancer and the domestic health care system and driven to explore more witch-based treatment possibilities.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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The Love That Remains
(2025)
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Jason Shawhan
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Writer-director Hlynur Pálmason is not afraid to let things get weirder as they go along (much like life), and Saga Garðarsdóttir grounds literal kitchen-sink realism and fanciful freakouts alike in a great performance.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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Drunken Noodles
(2025)
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Jason Shawhan
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Humorous and horny in equal measure, Drunken Noodles is the kind of queer art that (while it’s still legal) feels timeless and playful — a testament to the magical places the baser instincts can lead us.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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Sentimental Value
(2025)
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Jason Shawhan
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Sentimental Value makes you want to do better in your own circumstances; and more than that, it makes you want to watch it again.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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Predator: Badlands
(2025)
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Jason Shawhan
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A good monster can help smooth over all manner of cinematic oopsies, and Predator: Badlands is well aware that it needs to deliver action, thrills, sci-fi possibilities and a bunch of monsters at all times.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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Die My Love
(2025)
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Jason Shawhan
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This is another of those fearless films, echoed with a go-for-broke performance from Jennifer Lawrence that pulls no punches and doesn’t really care if you sympathize with her situation or responses to it.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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Hamnet
(2025)
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D. Patrick Rodgers
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Hamnet is a simple but affecting character study, thoughtfully rendered but elevated to year’s-best status by devastating performances from its two leads.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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Bugonia
(2025)
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D. Patrick Rodgers
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Bugonia is full of shocking surprises, steady laughs and captivating moments from Plemons and Stone, powered by screenwriter Will Tracy’s tight dialogue.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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Hard Times
(1975)
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Jim Ridley
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It's a terrific no-nonsense B picture that established Sam Peckinpah protege Hill's talent for classical action cinema, the kind with a comic book's graphic snap, crisp linear storytelling and clean bold lines.
Posted Sep 25, 2025
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Demons
(1985)
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Jason Shawhan
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The fact that this is a delirious dive into the demonic that serves as a superb zombie movie just as easily? That’s like the finest sauce for an exceptional feast.
Posted Aug 18, 2025
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O.C. and Stiggs
(1987)
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Jason Shawhan
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The thing about O.C. and Stiggs that allows it a certain kind of infamy is that it wasn’t made out of humane care, or surgical diagnosis, or even a vacation-disguised-as-a-shoot kind of lark. This is a movie made out of finely tended spite.
Posted Aug 18, 2025
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The Shrouds
(2024)
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Jason Shawhan
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Regardless of where the ride of The Shrouds takes you and lets you out, this film flips all manner of switches in the subconscious and does not immediately vacate the premises.
Posted Aug 18, 2025
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Play It as It Lays
(1972)
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Jason Shawhan
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There’s a melancholy to this film that feels undiluted by the intervening five-plus decades.
Posted Aug 18, 2025
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Eddington
(2025)
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Jason Shawhan
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When Eddington starts relitigating the battles over masking, I could feel the bile rise. That’s because it’s not really about exploring ideas — it’s about how annoying masking is for otherwise decent folks.
Posted Aug 18, 2025
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Eli Roth Presents: Jimmy and Stiggs
(2024)
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Jason Shawhan
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There are lots of films that address the messy tendencies of dude friendships and what happens when they meet unbreachable barriers, but none of them reach down into the bile and hurt and corrosive rage like Jimmy and Stiggs does.
Posted Aug 18, 2025
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Weapons
(2025)
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Jason Shawhan
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Cregger has a maximalist streak that yields big dividends (see also 2011’s The Civil War on Drugs), one that uses the cinemascope frame in a way that keeps your gaze locked in on the refractions and revelations before us.
Posted Aug 18, 2025
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Hell of a Summer
(2023)
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Jason Shawhan
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The feature debut from writing/directing/acting team Billy Bryk and Finn Wolfhard is neither rehash nor slash-by-numbers.
Posted Apr 02, 2025
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Misericordia
(2024)
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Jason Shawhan
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The plot is smart, expertly constructed and very effective. But once you know the points on the graph where all that unfolds, Guiraudie and his cast are able to do something nearly alchemical.
Posted Apr 02, 2025
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The Monkey
(2025)
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Jason Shawhan
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There’s something resigned about the universe Perkins gives us, with the comic tones finding a perfect balancing point between gleefully outrageous gorescapes and the kind of gallows humor you’d find in M*A*S*H or a particularly grisly Coen brothers film.
Posted Feb 19, 2025
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The Brutalist
(2024)
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Craig D. Lindsey
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While The Brutalist may sound like a misery marathon, it’s really Corbet giving flowers to the immigrants who stuck it out and continue to stick it out.
Posted Feb 19, 2025
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Queer
(2024)
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Jason Shawhan
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At this current historical moment, Queer is a work of radical theory and intent that, while it’s still legal, enriches the medium and cranks up all the conflicted emotional responses.
Posted Feb 19, 2025
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Nosferatu
(2024)
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D. Patrick Rodgers
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Robert Eggers is not a filmmaker who’s going to approach a remake without something of his own to offer. Nosferatu has much to offer.
Posted Dec 26, 2024
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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
(2023)
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Jason Shawhan
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Sasha getting her fangs is very relatable to anyone who spent years at the mercy of biochemistry and autonomic nervous responses.
Posted Nov 08, 2024
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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
(2024)
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Jason Shawhan
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Family-friendly, rather charming and unafraid to point out that calcified church figureheads are often the stumbling blocks keeping people from the community and fellowship that faith should offer.
Posted Nov 08, 2024
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Anora
(2024)
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D. Patrick Rodgers
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The journey toward Anora's ultimate destination is equal parts explicit, hilarious and heartbreaking.
Posted Oct 30, 2024
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MaXXXine
(2024)
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Jason Shawhan
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There are some great images, and a couple of superb set pieces. But this is a film that absolutely could have used another rewrite and another 20 minutes of runtime.
Posted Oct 30, 2024
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Alien: Romulus
(2024)
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Jason Shawhan
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This is a film that takes some time out for wonder and awe.
Posted Oct 30, 2024
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Red Rooms
(2023)
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Jason Shawhan
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Though the movie isn’t exploring material all that different from a prime-time police procedural, it is engaging with the horror — and the rot that it represents — to an extent that TV simply wouldn’t bother.
Posted Oct 30, 2024
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