Film

The American Society For Magical Negroes is a hollow representation of its subject instead of a satirical skewering of a dangerous trope.

Love Lies Bleeding is a visceral love story that allows Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian to be hammers of retribution shaped by romance.

When In A Violent Nature is firing, it does so on all cylinders and that almost makes up for its staggered pacing.

An unassuming film, A Real Pain will stay with those who carry their family’s trauma buried underneath their own weeping.

Krazy House is Steffen Haars and Flip Van der Kuil’s English-language debut and it does a lot, with Nick Frost rising to the occasion.

Handling the Undead invests in how terrifying grief can be through the lens of the zombie genre, posing important questions in the process.

GFM Animation’s 10 Lives is cute and heartfelt and will ultimately make every pet owner in the audience cry in its final act.

Recovery is day by day. You’re never cured. And like Rona’s sponsor says in The Outrun, it doesn’t get easy. It just gets less hard.

Anthology film Freaky Tales is a triumph of genre cinema. It’s loud, brash, hilarious, and packed with satisfying action.

ISS is a movie that uses its situation to ramp up the intensity and the actors rise up to meet it too, but doesn’t push past expectation.