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, [...]

Bros

Undeniably sweet and amusing, though overly formulaic. The latest Apatow Company film, titled Bros, is a gay rom-com that offers a retake on all the rom-com tropes and the interplay [...]

Sidney

Chronicling the outstanding career and life of the late American actor, filmmaker, activist, and family man Sidney Poiter, who was the very first black actor to win the Best Actor [...]

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