2020s

"How Far Does the Dark Go?" review
HOW FAR DOES THE DARK GO?: Queer Vampire Drama Sucks In All The Wrong Ways

The most interesting and important movies in the world today are being made by trans…

RIEFENSTAHL: The Last Word on a Lifelong Propagandist
RIEFENSTAHL: The Last Word on a Lifelong Propagandist

Riefenstahl should be the last word on its subject—not just because it is the definitive one, but also because it is the last one we need.

STRANGER EYES: Who’s Watching Who?
STRANGER EYES: Who’s Watching Who?

Despite tackling intriguing and timely concepts, Stranger Eyes ends up being a surprisingly dull watch.

Nowhere Special review
NOWHERE SPECIAL: Sad Window Cleaner Faces Down Death

The British will literally eat beans on toast for breakfast and then go to work…

HollyShorts 2025: Little Bird & The Stand: Two Powerful Shorts
HollyShorts 2025: Little Bird & The Stand: Two Powerful Shorts

In The Stand and Little Bird, our leads hustle and fight to get by in a country that seems to stack the odds ever-increasingly against them.

"Superman" (2025) - source: Warner Bros.
SUPERMAN: Maybe the Most Progressive Hollywood Blockbuster of the 21st Century

Superman is possibly the most left-leaning blockbuster Hollywood has produced in the last 20 years.…

WEAPONS: A Darkly Funny, Bizarrely Entertaining Horror Film
WEAPONS: A Darkly Funny, Bizarrely Entertaining Horror Film

Weapons is many things: an entertaining genre film that is both funny and horrifying, an acting showcase for its talented cast.

But What About the Key of Rock? Freakier Friday's Missed Punk Opportunity
But What About the Key of Rock? Freakier Friday’s Missed Punk Opportunity

Freakier Friday is a missed opportunity. In this moment of Y2K nostalgia and resurgent conservative political backlash to feminism, we need punk rock.

NO SLEEP TILL: The Cone of Uncertainty
NO SLEEP TILL: The Cone of Uncertainty

No Sleep Till is a moody tone poem to that singularly paradoxical sense of anticipation and malaise that sends house cats into hiding.

HARVEST: A Folkloric Drama Filled With Ambiguities

Tsangari seems satisfied to keep Harvest as a teaser, a tragedy of a place with no name and leaving it nameless and without doctrine.

DROWNING DRY: A (Maybe Too) Understated Tragedy Drama

Drowning Dry is a movie that is waiting to burst with its emotional weight but finds itself wafting.

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS: A Fantastic First Step for Marvel’s First Family

A wonderful addition to the MCU and the superhero canon, The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a breath of fresh air in the genre.

In TOGETHER, Comedy is Horror’s Better Half

Together’s greatest strengths lie in its wry reflections on the pleasures and perils of long-term romance.

SOULEYMANE’S STORY: Paris Through the Eyes of the Undocumented
SOULEYMANE’S STORY: Paris Through the Eyes of the Undocumented

Souleymane’s Story is an urgent, energetic drama that follows a Guinean immigrant through the streets of Paris.

TITAMI: Fierce and Refusing to Flinch
TATAMI: Fierce and Refusing to Flinch

In a world that constantly asks women (especially women under authoritarian regimes) to stay silent, Tatami dares to scream. And, it speaks volumes.