Forbidden Fruits
Director Meredith Alloway's feature debut titled Forbidden Fruits, based on Lily Houghton's 2019 play, is a witchy horror-comedy that starts clever and features superb casting. All the actresses are terrific [...]
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
Oscar-winner Daniel Roher directs this enlightening documentary about the existential uncertainties—both hopeful and cynical—surrounding the rise of artificial intelligence with The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist . [...]
The Drama
An uncomfortable narrative about discomfort, Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama is nonetheless a wrenching framework thanks to the director’s immense skill for anxiety-inducing drama, dark humor, and raising uncomfortable questions in [...]
A Magnificent Life
The third animated feature from French writer/director Sylvain Chomet, A Magnificent Life doesn't quite reach the emotional impact or narrative innovation of his previous masterpieces, The Triplets of Belleville and [...]
Tow
It's quite evident by now that Rose Byrne is an actress of outstanding range and various textures. In Two, written and directed by Stephanie Laing, Byrne returns as a mother enduring [...]
A Private Life
Co-writer and director Rebecca Zlotowski revisits the whole American in Paris trope in her recent black comedy mystery thriller A Private Life, about a highly regarded psychiatrist, Lilian Steiner (Jodie [...]
The Testament of Ann Lee
A passionate, stylistic, opera-like musical of deep vision and scope, this engaging movie is one of the most idiosyncratic films of the year from the acclaimed duo of co-writer Brady [...]
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
The fourth installment in the 28 Days Later film series and part of the double bill that is a direct continuation of 2025's 28 Years Later, the post-apocalyptic horror film [...]
Dead Man’s Wire
Dead Man's Wire is a type of film that any director-for-hire could have easily gotten the job done for this crime thriller. However, household legend Gus Van Sant has turned [...]
The Plague
Very much in the vein of William Golding's Lord of the Flies novel, Charlie Polinger's debut feature that premiered at the Un Certain Regard at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival [...]