Descendant

As the winners write the history books, so much history is left whitewashed, and some communities and individuals only have stories left that are passed on from our descendants. Not [...]

Causeway

Two isolated soul's cross paths and form an undeniable bond in Causeway, a superbly acted and exquisitely crafted character study that has a story that is all too familiar in [...]

Armageddon Time

Absorbing and poignant, casually didactic and deeply personal, James Gray's Armageddon Time ends up being as engaging as it is uneven and glum. A fictionalized look at the filmmaker's childhood [...]

Holy Spider

Modern Iran's worst serial killer, Saeed Hanaei, and the 16 female victims he lured into his home are chronicled in Iranian-born filmmaker Ali Abbasi's third feature, titled Holy Spider. The [...]

Till

Although it has all the markings of being a routine message Oscar bait movie, Till is one of the most notable social justice films to be released as of late. [...]

Halloween Ends

It’s hard to think of a franchise with more retcons, different timelines, and broken continuity than the Halloween franchise. How strange to think that a classic horror film from 1978 [...]

Vesper

There have been many sci-fi films about dystopian futures. Vesper is another vision of a doomed world that resonates both as a rare coming-of-age story and as a distressing genre [...]

God’s Creatures

A superbly crafted work from the collaborating duo of Anna Rose Holmer and Saela Davis, God's Creatures is a potent, somber examination of a mother struggling to come to terms [...]

Smile

Gore. The gross-out. Jump scares. There are many tricks and strategies that can go into the making of a horror movie. All of these can be successful if done well, [...]

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