Great Freedom is an intimate prison drama that follows a gay man over decades as he is repeatedly imprisoned as a part of Germany's outdated anti-gay laws. While Great Freedom takes place during a dark time in Germany's history, its hopeful story filled with empathy doesn't feel anything less than authentic and, against all odds,…
Hellbender follows a young teen's coming-of-witch journey as her mother slowly reveals her and her family's true nature Hellbender is a lo-fi punk rock horror assault on the senses that marks yet another fascinating entry in the coming-of-witch subgenre that has slowly crept its way into the canon — The Witch, The Craft, and Thelma first…
The Feast is a Welsh folk horror tale that follows a family that reaps the consequences of their greed during a dinner party The Feast is slow and somewhat simple, but it's also a deliciously satisfying folk horror that quite literally says “eat the rich." Powered by JustWatch The opening scenes of The Feast, a…
Children of Men is a prescient look at a dystopia where no new children have been born in 18 years, leading to chaos in society Children of Men is perhaps the definitive movie of the first two decades of the 21st century as a prescient look at our potential future. Powered by JustWatch What’s stunning…
Welcome Home is nothing more than a kitschy thriller that makes for a perfect popcorn-fueled late-night hate-watch. Powered by JustWatch Welcome Home is fun enough to watch, but for all the wrong reasons. The level of the melodrama in this erotic thriller makes it objectively bad, but it edges on so bad it’s good mostly…
Joel Coen adapts his version of The Tragedy of Macbeth as a minimalist psychological thriller with Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand taking on the borrowed robes of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth Where to watch The Tragedy of Macbeth: Powered by JustWatch The Tragedy of Macbeth immediately justifies its existence by removing all markers of time…
After Yang follows a father's attempts to save his daughter's robot brother as the family deals with identity, parenthood, and love After Yang premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. A24 will release it in theaters in March. At its best, science fiction acts as a meditation on something we know through the lens of…
The 2022 Sundance Film Festival is in full swing. Here is a review round-up of some of the thrillers we've seen so far. Speak No Evil Sidsel Siem Koch and Morten Burian in Speak No Evil. Courtesy of the Sundance Institute. The Cabin in the Woods, one of my favorite horror movies of all time,…
In Resurrection, a mother desperately tries to keep her past life from spilling into her present as an old figure walks back in to her life Resurrection premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. It is seeking U.S. distribution. Halfway through Resurrection, there’s a 10-minute scene where Margaret (Rebecca Hall) recounts a traumatic period of…
Three Black women navigate the horrors — both real and supernatural — of working and attending a predominently white institution in Master Master is playing at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. It will be released on Prime Video in March. The most horrifying scene in Master, the feature debut of director Mariama Diallo, takes place…
