Young Washington
Like every story in history, that of America’s first president George Washington has long since become a mixture of truth, legend, and myth. Schoolchildren hear fables about cherry trees and [...]
Minions & Monsters
The Despicable Me franchise is still going strong after sixteen years. Serving as a launching pad for animation studio Illumination, the franchise has grown into four films and three spin-offs, [...]
Couture
Couture is a fascinating and often touching drama that examines the lives and professional endeavors of three women during a vital period in their lives. One is a director, played [...]
Supergirl
Supergirl marks the second film in James Gunn’s DC universe, following last year’s superlative Superman (which made my top 10 last year). Produced by Gunn and directed by Craig Gillespie, [...]
Leviticus
Leviticus 18:22: "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination". Leviticus 20:13 decrees that any homosexual acts are deserving of capital punishment. These [...]
The Death of Robin Hood
Taking a page or two from recent historical epics like David Lowery's The Green Knight and Robert Eggers' The Northman, filmmaker Michael Sarnoski's third feature offers a fresh exploration of [...]
Girls Like Girls
2026 will certainly be remembered as a year of fresh and exciting new voices, with many of its strongest films being directorial debuts (like Obsession and Backrooms). Among them, American [...]
Stop! That! Train!
An original screenplay by World of Wonder—the L.A.-based production company specializing in LGBTQ+ documentaries and series—this movie shares the comedic sensibilities of John Waters and Charles Busch drag classics like [...]
Silent Friend
Silent Friend is an unusual work, told in three segments, about the ways in which memory and recognition work, both between people and in a thematic or metaphorical sense. Here, [...]
Backrooms
In the words of Clémence Poséy’s mysterious Barbara in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, “don’t try to understand it, feel it”; the only sentiment I can think of to anyone not familiar [...]