Film Reviews & Insights
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Tim Burton's original 1988 Beetlejuice was something of a pop culture phenomenon in its initial release. Just the second feature film from Burton, Beetlejuice was largely responsible for establishing the [...]
The Deliverence
Have you ever wondered what a horror film from Tyler Perry would look like? With The Deliverance, director Lee Daniels has provided that answer. Drawn from a purported case of real [...]
Sing Sing
Despite getting off to a very slow release rollout by A24 films, Greg Kweder's Sing Sing should find its audience due being a genuine crowd-pleaser that avoids being manipulative or [...]
The Crow (2024)
The year was 1994; Kurt Cobain is dead. OJ is on trial and star Brandon Lee, son of legend Bruce Lee, has died on the set of his soon-to-be-iconic role [...]
Between the Temples
Nathan Silver's Between the Temples is one of those unique films that feels like it's made in the 1970s. It is very much a modern take on Harold and Maude, [...]
Skincare
Skincare, the new film from director Austin Peters, starring Elizabeth Banks as an LA aesthetician named Hope Goldman, is inspired by real events (the case of a woman named Dawn [...]
Didi
Certainly, an impressive debut feature, Sean Wang's Sundance darling Didi echoes other recent coming-of-age stories like Are You There, God? It's Me Margaret and Mid90s, which are nostalgic pieces about [...]
The Dead Don’t Hurt
The Dead Don’t Hurt, the second film directed by Viggo Mortensen, who also produced, wrote, composed the score for and also stars in, is a peculiar western. It is both [...]
National Anthem
What could have been an opportunist film filled with queer archetypes and gazes, Luke Gifford's National Anthem instead is a visually poetic, sensually designed, and liberating adventure about the power [...]
Last Summer
Last Summer, the new film from Catherine Breilat, is based on the 2019 Danish film, Queen of Hearts. The result is a film that takes what Brielat is known for and [...]
Green Border
Agnieszka Holland, the famed Polish director who is perhaps her nation’s best currently active filmmaker, has created both a film and a polemic, with her newest effort, Green Border. This brutally [...]