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New York 2026 Review: PAPER TIGER, No Crime, Yet Punishment

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:07:11 -0500

Adam Driver, Miles Teller, and Scarlett Johansson star in director James Gray's crime thriller.

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Vlissingen 2026 Review: WHISPERS IN THE WOODS Stuns With Visual Poetry

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:00:04 -0500

During the opening titles of Vincent Munier's new documentary, you watch a forest, for minutes, with trees slowly emerging from the fog, while Hildur Guðnadóttir's Fólk Fær Andlit music plays. Seen on the big screen it's a jawdropper of a shot, and a meditative moment which is a feast for your senses. Many will follow. Vincent Munier is an award-winning nature photographer and filmmaker, and for this title he spent a winter in the French Vosges mountain forests. Not alone, mind you: he brought his father (also a renowned nature photographer) and his 13-year-old son with him. The end result is this film, Whispers in the Woods, which is about love of nature, of patience, of incredible dedication for getting the right shot. In a...

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ARCTIC ANNIHILATION: Trailer, Art and Images For The Asylum's 'Chilly' Sci-fi Disaster Flick

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:00:00 -0500

As glaciers advance and cities freeze, a team of scientists races against time to build a colossal thermal shield to protect Earth from an encroaching ice age that will plunge the planet into extinction.

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YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER Review: Singularly Engaging, Singularly Provocative Religious-Themed Action-Thriller

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:42:06 -0500

The title of the Mahershala Ali-led, Bassam Tariq-directed Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, an action-thriller with more than just action or thrills on its mind, derives from a well-known “Hadith,” a saying attributed to the Prophet Muhammad in Islam. Depending on the translation, the question differs slightly (e.g., “Whom should you honor foremost?”, “Who deserves your companionship and finest treatment?”), but the answer, repeated three times, remains the same: “Your mother.” "Your father" comes in fourth and last. Ali’s character, Latif, a Muslim hitman (“he only kills the undeserving and the unrighteous”), finds himself at a literal, metaphorical crossroads when his wife dies suddenly, not through random or intentional violence as a genre enthusiast might expect, but through natural causes. Her loss...

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ANGEL'S EGG 4K Review: Mamoru Oshii's Gorgeous and Distinctive Vision Comes Home

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:02:02 -0500

Mamoru Oshii ('Ghost in the Shell') tells a mysterious story in a mesmerizing fashion, now on 4K from GKids.

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V/H/S/MIXTAPE Trailer: It's Time to Press Play on Terror, Once Again

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:00:00 -0500

A new chapter in the V/H/S anthology horror series has become as much of a Halloween tradition as anything else you do to celebrate spooky season each year. Decorate your house. Buy or make your kid's costumes. Play spooky music on your smart speakers. Buy too much Halloween candy so you purposely have leftovers at the end of the night. Log into Shudder and watch the new chapter of V/H/S. See how natural that sounds? And so here we are, with the trailer for this year's contribution to the franchise that will never die, V/H/S/Mixtape. Featuring all-new segments from legendary filmmaker Ernest Dickerson, hip-hop icon RZA, visionary director David Moreau, and acclaimed filmmaker Renee Zhan, V/H/S/MIXTAPE cranks the franchise's signature found-footage horror...

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PRIMETIME Review: Form and Performances Shine Through Fairly Standard True Story Drama

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Robert Pattinson, Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, Matthew Maher and Bokeem Woodbine star in director Lance Oppenheimer's drama, inspired by true events.

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HEART OF THE BEAST Review: Brad Pitt and a Dog Named Odin Elevate Survival Thriller

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:02:09 -0500

Only a year and a half ago, the Boy Scouts of America officially changed the name of the century-old youth organization to Scouting America, a move intended to be more inclusive than its gender-specific predecessor. (Currently, Scouting America includes roughly 200K female participants out of a total of 1 million.) Their motto, “Be Prepared!”, however, remains the same. While those two words encapsulate Scouting America’s wilderness-related goals, they're also applicable to everyday life, even in a survival thriller like Heart of the Beast, a Brad Pitt-led film helmed by David Ayer, Pitt's Fury collaborator (The Beekeeper, Suicide Squad, End of Watch), which can — and should — be amended to: “Be prepared and bring your closest canine companion on your wilderness adventures, planned or...

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HALLOWARRIOR Official Trailer: Shudder Original Starring Milly Shapiro Streaming This October

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:00:00 -0500

On the eve of Halloween, Pumpkin, the sole survivor of a humanity-ending plague, must use her candy, wit, and weapons to ferociously defend her wasteland home from a savage gang of raiders led by the fearsome Thalia.

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NEVER AFTER DARK Review: Genuinely Frightening, Not a Typical Ghost Story

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Moeka Hoshi, Kento Kaku, Kurumi Inagaki, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Bokuzo Masana, and Tae Kimura star in writer/director Dave Boyle's haunting thriller.

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MAGICK MTN. Trailer: A Supernatural, Rock-and-Roll Occult Horror Fairytale... So... A Bit of Everything?

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:30:00 -0500

Ghosts, Goblins, and Crowley. Magick Mtn. is a rock & roll fairytale set deep in Laurel Canyon using instruments of the occult to dig beneath the soil of a hillside marked by tragedy and death.

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LA MANCHA (YOU'RE IT) Trailer: New Horror From The Garcia Bogliano Brothers

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:00:00 -0500

Inside an amusement park, a group of children and teenagers become trapped in a dark curse connecting them to a parallel world.

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BLOODY TENNIS New Clip: Releases on Shudder on September 25th

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:00:48 -0500

Nikias Chryssos' horror flick Bloody Tennis releases on Shudder this Friday, September 25th. A new clip has been sent out today. You can check it out, down below. The things that athletes to will do to win, yeesh. Our own Martin caught Bloody Tennis when it played at Locarno this summer. You will find a link to his full review below. For now, here is a worthy excerpt. Nikias Chryssos' English-language debut Bloody Tennis pushes the brutality of sports competition to sadistic extremes. The academy promises excellence, but its real curriculum is obedience. Every drill, humiliation and grotesque initiation becomes another bizarre step on the journey to the top. Watch the New Clip for BLOODY TENNIS! Written/Directed by Nikias Chryssos ...

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ONCE UPON A TIME IN TEXAS Trailer: The Reimagined Restoration of a 15-Year Old Western in Theaters This October (Exclusive)

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:00:01 -0500

We have your exclusive first look at the trailer for Tanner Beard's Once Upon a Time in Texas, a reimagined restoration of a film he made fifteen years ago, The Legend of Hell’s Gate: An American Conspiracy. What started as a restoration of the original film, in time for its fifteenth anniversary, took on a whole life of its own. Fifteen years after directing The Legend of Hell’s Gate: An American Conspiracy, Tanner Beard expanded an anniversary restoration into a completely revamped version of the Western film. By shooting new backlot footage, restoring deleted scenes, adding new characters, upgrading visual effects, and commissioning a fresh score, Beard realized his definitive vision through a unique collaboration with his younger self. Yep. Beard done did...

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SLOW HORSES S6 E2 Recap: Daddy Issues

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 03:02:03 -0500

Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, and Kristin Scott Thomas reprise their roles in the British spy series.

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DEAD MEDIA: Adult Swim And Rifftrax Writer Joseph Scrimshaw Has Launched Leg Two of its Nationwide Theatrical Roadshow

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:32:53 -0500

The era of physical bonus features is returning to screens.

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Venice 2026 Review: LOVERS IN THE BLUE NIGHT, Tender Social Drama Caught in Its Own Emotional Web

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:02:02 -0500

Anuparna Roy's second feature intertwines queer longing, displacement, caste and emotional misrecognition in the nocturnal margins of Mumbai.

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Venice 2026 Review: ARRESTED MEMORY, Screwball Cop Caper Brings Melancholy to the Police-Action Formula

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:02:10 -0500

Japanese cult filmmaker Sabu refreshes the police-action formula with screwball comedy and melancholic undertones.

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Now On Demand: MISTURA, Peruvian Comfort Food

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:02:09 -0500

Barbara Mori, César "Pudy" Ballumbrosio, Christian Meier, and Hermelinda Luján star in Ricardo de Montreuil's crowdpleasing film.

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Venice 2026 Review: JUPITER, Claustrophobic Political Thriller for the Current Time

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:02:07 -0500

Alexandre Smia's gripping feature debut locks Denis Ménochet inside the machinery of presidential power, where rational calculations lead toward an unthinkable conclusion.

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Sound And Vision: Olivia Wilde

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:00:03 -0500

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we discuss a duo of music videos by Olivia Wilde. Olivia Wilde might be known mostly as an actor. But after three films as a director that show a wide variety of styles and genres, it is clear she is the real deal of a good actor-turned-director, a feat which is still quite rare. You might think that her three films and two music videos don't have a lot in common. One is a highschool-comedy, one is a scifi-thriller, one is a razorsharp black comedy set in one room and the music videos are a skating-video and a dance-choreography shot on a phone. You would be...

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Toronto 2026 Review: EVERYTHING ELSE IS NOISE

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Opening with one of the most pleasurable and ambient scenes of 2026, Everything Else Is Noise announces its intentions immediately. Gridlocked traffic in a Mexico City intersection struggles to move and to find space in a complex interactive dance, while we listen to someone warming up the bow-on-strings of a cello. Nicolás Pereda’s latest exquisitely calibrated comedy of manners devotes a sizeable amount of its slim (but typical for this director) 71-minute runtime to let this scene play out in all its anticipatory banality before introducing us to its lead character. Teresa (Teresita Sánchez) is a composer who has lent out her apartment to a fellow female composer for a television documentary interview that morning. Her neighbour first comes up to complain about the cello...

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IN THE GRIP OF TERROR: Amicus Productions Returns to UK Cinemas With First New Feature in Forty Years

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:00:00 -0500

Amicus Productions is officially resurrecting its legendary portmanteau blueprint with In the Grip of Terror, the studio’s first new horror feature in over four decades. Hitting select UK cinema screens this October and November, this brand-new anthology links its sinister tales through a central framing story set inside a mysterious hospital run by cult icon Laurence R. Harvey (The Human Centipede II). The film delivers a treat for vintage horror purists by adapting classic spine-chillers from masters of the macabre like H.P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, and E.F. Benson. It stars Golden Globe nominee Jane Merrow (Hands of the Ripper) alongside rising genre face Megan Tremethick. This theatrical rollout also marks the launch of British Horror Studio Picture House. This new distribution arm already...

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Venice 2026 Review: NO PARADISE IF YOU ARE KILLED BY A WOMAN Goes into Stealth Mode to Confront the Scars of War

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:02:03 -0500

Merging the exportable mechanics of a stealth-combat thriller with the political urgency of Kurdish resistance, Halkawt Mustafa delivers an ambitious Iraqi-Norwegian genre film.

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Friday One Sheet: MINOTAUR

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:00:00 -0500

Refraction and separation are the key elements in the CREATE's release poster for Andrey Zvyagintsev's superb festival prize-winner, Minotaur. There are some echoes and rhymes with the design work of Akiko Stehrenberger, specifically the remake of Funny Games, one of the best posters of the 21st century. There are no tears, however, for this is scathing and cynical critique of Russia in the guise of an infidelity drama, however the typography, the credit block, and the colour palette all track. If you are going to borrow, borrow from the best. (Note also, Minotaur is also a loose and re-contextualized remake of Nouvelle Vague filmmaker Claude Chabols' La Femme Infidèle.) One of the films key visual motifs is to put its lead characters behind glass. Their modern minimalist home, the corner office, and...

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Access:Horror 2026: One Day Live Event Next Week, Program Streams Later in October

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:30:00 -0500

The folks from the Access:Horror Film Festival are returning with a hybrid format focused on disability representation and intersectional storytelling in genre cinema. The festival begins with an in-person opening night showcase on Friday, September 25th at 8:00 PM at the Alamo Drafthouse Winchester in Virginia, hosted by Jazzmin and Kat from the Girl, That's Scary! podcast. The live event features nine short films, including The Hog Queen starring Marisa Bode and Mango produced by Wunmi Mosaku. Tickets and festival passes are available on the Lost Weekend Film Festival website. Then the festival moves online from October 4th through November 1st, offering a month to stream 19 international short films. The digital lineup is divided into three thematic blocks: Edibles, Your Body Keeps the...

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Venice 2026 Review: DIANE IN THE LOOP Channels Inherited Generational Rage into a Whimsical Yet Touching Feminist Western

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:02:10 -0500

Belgian filmmakers Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni turn intergenerational trauma into an eccentric tale of revenge and rebirth, veiled as unexpected feminist Western fairy tale and family road movie.

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BAD APPLES Review: There Is Always One

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Saoirse Ronan stars in Jonatan Etzler's unsparing satire.

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THE WEIGHT Review: Gold, Greed, Betrayal, Violence, and Murder, Made Remarkably Engrossing

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe star in Padraic McKinley's feature directorial debut.

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Toronto 2026 Review: DIARY OF A MAD OLD MAN Turns Erotic Obsession Into an Anti-Erotic Meditation

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:02:10 -0500

Wayne Wang returns to literary adaptation with a disquieting chamber drama in which senescence becomes its own form of erotic suspense.

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Anime Weekly: Crunchyroll's Fall 2026 Season Revealed

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:32:12 -0500

'#I'm Looking for a Zombie,' 'Dreamland,' and much more.

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RESIDENT EVIL Review: Zach Cregger Brilliantly Reimagines the Decades-Old Series for Our Discontented Times

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0500

After 25 years, seven films, an animated series, and even a live album, it took Zach Cregger, the writer-director behind back-to-back horror standouts, Barbarian and Weapons, to properly adapt Resident Evil, Capcom’s survival-horror videogame franchise, into a live-action film that captured the CapCom series' essential elements, not just playability, but replayability: Not just the survival horror elements, of course, but more importantly, the unrelentingly suffocating, claustrophobic mood, the personal stakes (survive or die), and the aptly named Umbrella Corporation as a placeholder or symbol for a government-industrial alliance that poses a literal existential threat. That's not meant as a knock, of course, on the commercially successful, if otherwise critically dismissed, six-film series starring Mila Jovovich and (mostly) directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (Monster Hunter,...

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Toronto 2026 Review: BAD LIEUTENANT: TOKYO, Takashi Miike's Fairy Tale of Redemption

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:12:02 -0500

Is the Bad Lieutenant ‘franchise’ an excuse for wild auteur filmmakers to craft slyly black comedies full of sex and violence, and ideation-detritus that never made it into their other pictures? Is the Bad Lieutenant franchise even a franchise, or a vaguely connected idea of directorial maximalism? After the cult success of Abel Ferrara’s disturbingly violent, sexual, and catholic soaked New York City character study (essayed by a fearless, often naked Harvey Keitel), every 15 years or so another sensationally eccentric director will take a shot at this in another city. In 2009, it was Werner Herzog grafting his own proclivities and non-sequitur asides with Nicolas Cage in post-Katrina New Orleans. When a producer purchased title rights, it led to some misunderstanding that...

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THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE Review: Nothing Is Permanent

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:02:12 -0500

John Wilson's documentary is illuminating, fascinating, hilarious, and poignant.

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THE SECRET AGENT 4K Review: A Masterpiece of Memory and Resistance

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:00:00 -0500

It's hard to fathom, even in hindsight, how a film about a dictatorship, its long reach into the lives of seemingly ordinary people, a love of old movie houses and carnivals, and something of an experimental narrative structure, could translate into one of the most critically and commercially successful films of recent times. But sometimes the film goddesses smile upon a filmmaker and his audience, and we get a masterpiece like The Secret Agent, that finds universal appeal in its specific story. Criterion has assembles a wonderful 3-disc edition of the film for its collection. Kleber Mendonça Filho's cinema has always combined the personal and the political; memory and erasure; the ordinary person versus the tyrant and the evil. The Secret Agent is his most ambitious film to...

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WHEN EMMA CAME HOME: Filming Wraps on Upcoming Psychological Horror Film From Viral Filmmaker Spencer Keller

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0500

Filming has wrapped on an upcoming psychological horror flick When Emma Came Home, the feature debut from viral filmmaker Spencer Keller. ... an ambitious documentary filmmaker (...) sets out to discover what happened twenty years ago when a girl went missing and subsequently murdered a family upon her return. The deeper she digs into the case and the isolated community impacted by the crime, the more her sense of self becomes increasingly fractured and the mystery behind the girl’s violent act is revealed. As is the growing trend these days, Spencer cut his teeth online creating a number of viral horror shorts over the years. They look to add their names to the rising numbers of filmmakers making the transition from online to...

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Vlissingen 2026 Review: YOURI, A Great Film About A Great Friendship

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:00:06 -0500

The Film by the Sea festival in Vlissingen (a.k.a. Flushing) started this year on a high note with its opening film Youri, by Sander Burger. The festival always has a large section dedicated to literary adaptations, and its main theme this year is "Moed", the Dutch word for courage. Youri fits the section, as it is an adaptation of Jan Brokken's biographical novel "In the House of the Poet" about his friendship with superstar pianist Youri Egorov. It also fits the theme of "Courage", in several parts of the story, some of which are obvious, but some of which I will not spoil. The film starts in Amsterdam in the 1980s, a few years after the famous Russian pianist Youri Egorov has fled to the...

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SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM Review: It's All About Growth

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 07:00:00 -0500

It's the latest sly, LOL comic adventure from Aardman Animation -- need we say more?

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Toronto 2026 Review: THE REMOTES, The Voices that Haunt the Night

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0500

Many of us (myself included) have come to rely on our smartphone apps maybe a little too much, especially ones that tell us where to go. Even in our own hometowns, we can turn to google maps or Mapquest to take us where we need to go, without paying attention to how we got there. We hear the voice say 'turn right' or 'go straight' and we absorb that. But that calming, assured voice could viewed as something deeper, and darker, if we don't understand where it comes from or how, and where, it is literally or metaphorically guiding us. Perhaps I'm getting too philosophical, but that seems to be much of the intention behind Filipino filmmaker John Torres's latest feature, The Remotes. This is not...

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Toronto 2026 Review: HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY!, Beautiful, Vibrant Portrait of Loss and Romance

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:02:04 -0500

Rinko Kikuchi stars in filmmaker Josef Kubota Wladyka's beautiful, vibrant, quirky, weird, imaginative, and genuinely moving portrait of moving on from devastating loss.

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DISCO ITALIANA Interview: Alan Jones Talks Severin's Box Set

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Watching movies isn’t always fun if one is a critic but the idea that it should be is a nice one. No matter how seriously we approach the medium of film, no matter how many greatest-films-of-all-time lists are generated, no matter how hard we work at the serious and important business of film criticism, theory and history, we are confronted with a simple truth time and again: The films that survive the longest, often do so because they are so much fun. Such films can humble the haughty, comfort the masses and serve as a reminder that no matter what critics think of any film or genre, it may very well take on an important place in the hearts of people and history...

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Toronto 2026 Review: FJORD, Palme D'Or Winner Finds Many Arthouse Audience Buttons to Push

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:02:09 -0500

Roger Ebert once described film as a “machine that generates empathy.” For writer-director Christian Mugiu, this is very much true. But what if that empathy was slyly and sharply weaponized into a provocation? Enter Fjord. In our increasingly globalized (and polarized) world, the opportunities for mis-communication, mis-understanding and social dogmas have never been more ripe for abuse. Fjord quietly, practically inevitably, goes for the jugular of the very arthouse audience that would be his core audience. This is Micheal Haneke kind of stuff, but filtered through the ‘eat the elite’ sensibilities of Ruben Östlund, with all the language barriers and procedural nightmares of Justine Triet’s Anatomy of A Fall. As all of these directors, including Mungiu (both for Fjord and 4 Months, 3...

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PRACTICAL MAGIC 2 Review: Second Time Isn't a Charm

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:12:10 -0500

When Practical Magic was released in 1998, no one probably thought it would become a special movie for a whole slew of teenage girls and young women. And not just because of witchery, black cats, and pointy hats, even though that’s always fun, unless you’re a woman in the 17th century Massachusetts. The real, practical magic was the fact that, in a pretty male-centered movie era, out came the film about sisterhood, where a romantic storyline was almost an afterthought, Sally and Gillian Owens were each other’s person years before Meredith Grey and Cristina Yang graced our screens, and there was an impressive message about reclaiming your “otherness” and going along with it inside it all. So, there was never a chance that, in the...

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THE UPRISING Review: Brooding Andrew Garfield Leads a Semi-Enthralling Medieval Epic

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:42:09 -0500

For a brief, not-quite-shining moment, Paul Greengrass’ (Captain Phillips, United 93, the Jason Bourne series) latest film, The Uprising, bore a subtitle added by studio marketers, “The Rise of Robin Hood,” only to remove it after howls of outrage from the Terminally Online. They claimed, not without justification or cause, that the Robin Hood mythos had been adapted and re-adapted so many times in every possible medium as to lose all relevance or, at a minimum, any possible novelty or freshness. Luckily for them and for any moviegoers venturing out of the oppressive heat into their local multiplex to see The Uprising, Greengrass’ film doesn’t retell the overly-familiar Robin Hood’s story for the 357th time, but instead focuses on a well-documented period in...

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12 ANGRY MEN 4K Review: Crackling Legal Thriller, Trapped in a Single Room

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:32:06 -0500

Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, and Martin Balsam star in Sidney Lumet's feature film debut, now in 4K from The Criterion Collection.

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BLACK ZOMBIE Review: Engaging, Insightful Work of Cultural Criticism

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:02:01 -0500

If Xavier Burgin's Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror is the equivalent of a survey course you might take freshman year at college, Maya Annik Bedward's Black Zombie is the kind of class you take junior year that makes you consider going to grad school for this stuff. The film begins, as many of these documentaries about film do, with a montage of moments (spanning the 1920s to the 2020s) that attempt to convince you why you should care about this particular cultural history and its place in the pop culture landscape today. Interspersed with these clips are several talking heads that give previews of the ideas the rest of the movie will delve into: Zombies raise "questions about autonomy and agency," zombies are...

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ON A STRING Review: A Comedy Where Everyone Is a Judge and No One Is Very Happy

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Isabel Hagen directs and stars in "a convincing picture of an unforgiving New York," also starring Dylan Baker, Eric Bogosian, Frederick Weller, and Jamie Lee.

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HOPE Review: Pure Entertainment, Yet Little Beyond That

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Na Hong-jin directed; Hwang Jung-min, Hoyeon, and Zo In-sung star, with Taylor Russell, Cameron Britton, Alicia Vikander, and Michael Fassbender.

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DON'T PLAY WITH FIRE Review: Good for Nothing Punks

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Tsui Hark's remarkable third feature stars Lo Lieh, Lin Chen-chi, Albert Au, Che Biu-law, and Lung Tin-sang.

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