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Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine  is a bruiser of a film—sweaty, unflinching, and desperate to dig into the psyche of one of...

Kathryn Bigelow has always been fascinated by the anatomy of crisis — how people behave when the clock is ticking, the stakes are...

Steve (Cillian Murphy) is the headmaster of a reform school named Stanton Wood. If the children were Steve's biggest worry at the school,...

Fifteen years after a reboot was first announced, The Toxic Avenge r  finally slithers out of development hell and onto U.S. screens. The...

*This review is spoiler-free. Lynette (Vanessa Kirby) lives at home with her mother, Doreen (Jennifer Jason Leigh), and her brother,...

Every so often, a film sneaks up on you—not with a big studio campaign or a franchise hook, but with something quieter, more human, and...

You know those rare films where you walk out a little rattled, not because you didn’t enjoy it, but because the weight of it just sits on...

Horror-comedy is tricky to nail, but Hold the Fort  makes it look effortless — and in just 74 minutes, no less. Director William Bagley...

Part mystery, part ghost story, and all atmosphere, Burning  was one of the most surprising discoveries of my first Fantasia Fest. Set in...

Fantasia Fest always delivers its fair share of oddities, but every so often a film sneaks in that feels like a perfectly preserved time...

There’s a strange phenomenon that happens every time a major studio horror film hits theaters: the hype snowballs. Social media...

Few things get me more excited walking into a theater than a film with a split right down the middle. You know the kind—hovering in that...

It wasn't that long ago that I watched Creature From The Black Lagoon for the first time. I was going through the stretch of watching...

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She Rides Shotgun is a new crime thriller from director Nick Roland. It tells the story of Nate, played by Taron Egerton, a newly...

Man, seeing RRR a couple of years ago really opened up a whole new world of cinema for me. Ever since then, I occasionally switch on...

Ahhh, multiverses in cinema—whether you're referring to the overdose we've been getting in the superhero genre, or even the recent Oscar...

One of those things I guess I just don't "get" as an adult is how often I am supposed to change my bed's mattress. Society would lead me...

Nicolas Cage movies are basically their own genre at this point. The chameleon-like actor continues taking weirder and weirder roles, as...

I never saw my first Predator movie until after the COVID-19 pandemic started. When I found myself with more time at home during that...