‘The Travel Companion’ Review: A Painfully Relatable Indie About Friendship, Freeloading, and Failure to Launch
A cautionary fable on what happens when you don't tell your lifelong bestie to grow up and touch some grass.
'Gazer' Review: Jersey Set Neo-Noir Mystery Marks Impressive Debut For Ryan J. Sloan
Has an underground 90s indie sleaziness, like a rare VHS you’d pick up at a Kim's Video store.
‘Janet Planet’ Review: Annie Baker’s hypnotic, mother-daughter portrait is a masterpiece debut
A majestic, shattering portrait that hit too viscerally close to home.
‘Kinds of Kindness’ Review: Yorgos Lanthimos goes on a messed up Mother Goose kick
If you’re one of the Yorgos O.G.’s, this is for you.
‘Thelma’ Review: June Squibb gets her bag back in cozy, granny-tributing caper
Sweet and warm like your grandma’s baked cookies.
'I Used to Be Funny' Review: Rachel Sennott Shows Range in Ally Pankiw's Thoughtful Comedy-Drama
If you thought Rachel Sennott was a star before, you haven't seen anything yet.
'The Gutter' Review: Shameik Moore and D'arcy Carden Bowls For Laughs in Silly Sports Comedy | SXSW 2024
What Bottoms was to Mean Girls, The Gutter is to Dodgeball
‘The Royal Hotel’ Review: Julia Garner Tends Bar to Toxic Aussie Men in Kitty Green's Tensive Psychological Thriller
Kitty Green made a niche for herself with the two narrative features under her belt: The Torture of Julia Garner in a Masculine Environment Cinematic Universe.
'Robot Dreams' Review: Pablo Berger’s Silent Animated Flick Boots Up a Bittersweet Tale of Friendship | TIFF 2023
It's one of the year's most human movies, and there's not even a single human in the film.
'The Wrath of Becky' Review: Rebel Teen Returns for Another Alt-Right Bloodbath
Offers the familiar rebellious girl vs. hate group gorefest formula with the same skillful execution as its predecessor.
‘Polite Society’ Review: Wrath of the Demolition Desi
Like Edgar Wright if he made movies from a feminist Pakistani lens.
'Sisu' Review: Gory Shoot-Em-Up is a Thrilling How to Guide to Steamrolling Nazis (Finnish Style)
Had me smiling ear to ear as Nazis got Mein Kampf’ed up.
'Beau is Afraid' Review: Ari Aster's Anxiety-Induced Odyssey has Hilarity but is Ultimately Hollow
For a Jewish filmmaker, this is the most Christian-like biblical story Aster’s ever told.
'BlackBerry' Review: Smart Bio Drama About the World's First Smartphone Hits 5G Bars
A refreshing rise and fall narrative less concerned about the impact of the product itself, leaning towards a layered study of three business dudes using power and passion for profit.