Film Reviews & Insights
Polite Society
A British-Pakistani teenage girl fights for her dreams as a stunt woman as well as her older sister's dreams of becoming an artist in Polite Society, a spectacular and hilarious [...]
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant
After making his comeback to smaller scale filmmaking with thrilling crime tales The Gentlemen and Wrath of Man, "toff guy" filmmaker Guy Ritchie's recent career trajectory has largely returned to [...]
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Adapting older source material to the screen with charming and honest effect, filmmaker Kelly Fremon Craig's sophomore feature, Are You There God? It's Me, Marget, delivers a poignant portrait of [...]
R.M.N.
After exploring the horrors of the final days of the Nicolae Ceaușescu era where women's reproductive rights were stripped away in his 2007 masterpiece 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 [...]
Chevalier
Revolutionary France in the moments leading up to the tumultuous 19th century was anything but tolerant. Times were changing, for sure, but one man struggled against the current to make [...]
Evil Dead Rise
The dream duo of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell are back with another entry in the popular horror franchise, The Evil Dead. Now overseeing Irish director Lee Cronin, Evil Dead [...]
Beau is Afraid
Every so often, a major studio will greenlight highly ambitious and personal projects for high-profile artists once they reach a monumental success. Ari Aster swings big in his third feature, [...]
The Pope’s Exorcist
For modern moviegoers, most blockbuster supernatural horror feels familiar; a family arrives at a house, wherein spooky things suddenly go bump in the night, and one or more of them [...]
Renfield
Bela Lugosi and Dwight Frye. Carlos Villarias and Pablo Alvarez Rubio. Frank Langella and Tony Haygarth. Klaus Kinski and Roland Topor. George Hamilton and Arte Johnson. Gary Oldman and Tom [...]
Rare Objects
Over the course of the past five years or so, it has become more common to see compassionate films come out that boldly explore the traumas of sexual assault and [...]
Mafia Mamma
While the mafia comedy has certainly run its course in cinema, it hardly needs another addition: we have had some sharply funny ones previously with such titles like [...]