Patton Oswalt is Oscar-worthy in ‘I Love My Dad’ | SXSW review
An estranged father tries to reconnect with his son by catfishing him on Facebook in I Love My Dad, premiering at SXSW
‘The Cow’ is empty calories | SXSW review
A couple heads out to a remote cabin for a romantic getaway, but only one of them returns. The Cow follows Winona Ryder's Kath as she unravels the mystery. The Cow starts and ends showing promise for Eli Horowitz as a director. However, the movie’s undercooked non-linear narrative and rough screenplay undercut any dramatic tension…
Andrea Riseborough gets her moment with ‘To Leslie’ | SXSW review
The titular Leslie in To Leslie finds herself deep in the throes of alcoholism after winning the lottery six years earlier.
‘Sissy’ skewers millennial culture | SXSW review
Sissy follows an influencer who has to face her childhood bully during a bachelorette weekend in the Australian bush. It doesn’t go well.
Queer prison drama ‘Great Freedom’ finds hope | movie review
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is an intimate prison drama that follows a gay man over decades as he is repeatedly imprisoned as a part of Germany's outdated anti-gay laws.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 is a coming-of-witch family affair | review
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’ will leave you satisfied | SXSW review
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 as relevant today as ever | movie review
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’ review — This erotic thriller is unsatisfying
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…
‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ transports you to the Twilight Zone | movie review
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…