Featuring even more anxiety and paranoia, more gruesome deaths, and the most psychological dread the franchise has produced to date, Smile 2 is an impressive follow-up to one of the more original mainstream supernatural horror films of the 2020s.
Sean Baker's Anora carries on his neo-realist portraits of sex workers in crisis, and it's one of his funniest, saddest, and most dramatically satisfying films yet. It plays out like [...]
Just as with Oliver Stone's political films, Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi has delivered an undeniably engaging and deeply disturbing biopic on Donald Trump's rise to corporate power in the late [...]
Modern horror icon Art the Clown returns to the big screen in Terrifier 3, the latest in Damien Leone's extreme slasher franchise.
Jason Reitman is a skilled director, and he may have finally found his flair in Saturday Night. That might seem like a surprising statement about the director who has made [...]
Police corruption, civil liberties, and martial arts collide in Jeremy Saulnier's newest effort for Netflix, Rebel Ridge.
The Outrun is a new drama based on the memoir by Amy Liptrot. Here, director Nora Fingscheidt, who co-wrote the screenplay with Liptrot, casts Saoirse Ronan as Rona, in a [...]
2019's Joker was a lighting-in-a-bottle film that came with much buzz and discourse, with overwhelming box office returns to boot. Todd Phillips' distinct vision of the classic DC villain was [...]
DreamWorks Animation has typically been seen as the B-side to the greater works of Pixar. When there was Toy Story 1 & 2, there was DreamWorks’ Shrek, which was less [...]
Will & Harper is a documentary about friendship. It is also about belonging, identity, understanding and acceptance. Often, this is as much about the person one might think least needs to [...]
