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C+
To Hold a Mountain (2026) Christian Zilko It’s somewhat satisfying as both a travel documentary about a place few of us are likely to ever visit and a well-intentioned reminder that not everything needs to be modernized, but it doesn’t do much to transcend the sum of its parts.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
B
If I Go Will They Miss Me (2026) Vikram Murthi While trauma and toxic masculinity linger like specters in the background of “If I Go,” Thompson-Hernández permits them to merely contextualize rather than overwhelm the drama.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
The Weight (2026) Ryan Lattanzio It’s a treat to watch the muscular dynamics and savvy physical particulars of Hawke’s performance. Murphy, like Hawke, is great in a crisis, and “The Weight” could’ve been one without his sturdy, tough-lived performance.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
The Shitheads (2026) Richard Lawson By the end of the film, I was quite enjoying spending some time with them, despite wanting so badly to flee the scene at the beginning of the film. I suppose that, once in a while, an acquired taste proves all the more satisfying.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
The Musical (2026) David Ehrlich The bits that hit are well-supported, and the ones that don’t are so elegantly suffused into the movie’s cockeyed atmosphere that they tend not to leave any dead air in their wake.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
A
Time and Water (2026) Marya E. Gates A poetic musing on intergenerational memory, a whimsical, yet staunchly political elegy for the glaciers, and a mournful look at the Earth in all her majesty and mystery. . .and ow craven capitalism over the last several hundred years has destroyed her
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story (2026) Kate Erbland You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! And you’ll walk away with a hard-won appreciation for everything Maria Bamford is and hopes to be. Can we get a second part?
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Filipiñana (2026) David Ehrlich More than any other film that comes to mind, Rafael Manuel’s “Filipiñana” taps into something that I’ve always found inherently sinister about golf courses: Sprawling gardens of solipsism that invite players to compete against themselves.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
Take Me Home (2026) Wilson Chapman The ending doesn’t exactly erase what “Take Me Home” does well, but it does leave the film a much more dispiriting watch than it otherwise would have been, a promising drama that betrays it’s own best qualities.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
Iron Lung (2026) Alison Foreman “Iron Lung” is audacious and at times astonishingly boring. Still, it feels more enthusiastic and celebratory than many blockbuster adaptations built on safer math.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
When a Witness Recants (2026) Beandrea July At its best, the documentary functions as an act of deep listening and a step -- however incomplete -- toward reckoning with the harm done to three Black boys who deserved far better.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
A
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (2026) Beandrea July Turturro doesn’t rely on wardrobe or makeup to sell the character. Harry is a man of few words, so the performance hinges on his physical control and interiority. Turturro delivers both.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
D
In the Blink of an Eye (2026) David Ehrlich The only meaningful connection made over the course of the movie is the one between its actors, whose inability to salvage their material does more to braid them together than any of the machinations of Day’s script.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
See You When I See You (2026) Natalia Winkelman It’s so earnest, so vulnerable in its portrait of the disappointments and anxieties of young adulthood, that one tends to forgive its tweer flights of fancy.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) Christian Zilko Parenting isn’t for everyone, but the specificity of Roher’s story becomes universal when you realize that we all have to navigate the peaks and valleys of our own lives while also finding a way to think about the definitive topic of our era.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
The Friend's House Is Here (2026) David Ehrlich Even that digression is tender, lived-in, and relevant to the relationship between self-preservation and community under authoritarian rule, which this soft but subversive film convincingly brings together as one and the same.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Cookie Queens (2026) Lauren Wissot It’s an engaging if well-trodden setup, enhanced by the director’s slick but artful aesthetics.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Fing! (2026) Katie Rife Bell gives her all to this performance -- it just happens to be in the service of playing a horrible little girl.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
One in a Million (2026) David Ehrlich A raw and absorbing epic about “what comes after” -- one that naturally unfolds with all the joy, anguish, and unresolvable inner conflict of life itself.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
Chasing Summer (2026) Ryan Lattanzio Chasing Summer feels like a blandly reassuring teen comedy... Decker’s recent push toward what you might call “happier” movies was compelled by personal changes in her life; it feels, though, like a grunge rocker turning into a Top 40 pop star.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026) Christian Zilko The nuance and specificity that makes the film so interesting is also why it requires a decent knowledge base to appreciate -- this is about as far from an introduction to the Harlem Renaissance as you’ll find.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Closure (2026) David Ehrlich An ultra-immersive portrait of grief, acceptance, and the role that hope can play in delaying them both, “Closure” soon eschews any familiar genre tropes in favor of following Daniel as he obsessively charts the shores of the Vistula in search of answers.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
Send Help (2026) Alison Foreman Wickedly lovable with the potential to be timeless, “Send Help” is controlled delirium microwaved on high heat. At 66, Raimi reminds us who he was when he made horror-comedy history with “Evil Dead II,” and more importantly, why his voice still matters.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026) Christian Zilko 25 years after "Wet Hot American Summer" premiered at Sundance, it's a relief to know that Wain and Marino are still at the absolute top of their game.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie (2026) Kate Erbland The revulsion that we feel toward this attack is, of course, baked right into the film, but Gibney often dances away from making it feel like a symptom of something wider.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
BURN (2026) Blake Simons Nagahisa imbues these characters with such earthy, lived-in existences that it’s frustrating to see the back half of his film hit grim and well-worn trauma tropes... irrespective of the richness of the earlier character writing.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
undertone (2025) Christian Zilko “Undertone” seems destined to live on as a film school case study... Its legacy as an actual film is much less clear. But even so, the creativity with which Tuason approached it is enough to leave this critic excited to see what he does next.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Union County (2026) Katie Rife Union County doesn’t completely bypass addiction-drama clichés. But its detailed, humanistic approach successfully creates a realistic world that supports its muted storytelling.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Frank & Louis (2026) David Ehrlich It’s the Ship of Theseus paradox in human form, its discrete parts held together by a quietly stirring drama that finds dignity in decay, and grace in the memory of men who the rest of society would sooner forget.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Wicker (2026) Ryan Lattanzio “Wicker” threatens to feel largely like a logline writ into something grander (i.e., a short story with a wild idea stretched into a feature), but these actors are irresistibly weird and wonderful, as only they could be.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
C-
The Gallerist (2026) Ryan Lattanzio One of those movies where the actors are having all the fun, clearly enamored with the chance at working together, while they forget to let the audience in on the entertainment.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Bedford Park (2026) Alison Foreman Anchored firmly in the Garden State despite its misleading, Bronx-based title, “Bedford Park” captures distinctly East Coast textures to create a lived-in world that ultimately feels deeper in its symbolic meaning than the two leads’ human emotion.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
The Shitheads (2026) David Ehrlich The Shitheads isn’t funny enough to earn its heightened cruelties, and its cruelties aren’t heightened enough to justify how little sense they make.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
The Invite (2026) Kate Erbland Wilde’s expressive face and big eyes tap into a Lucille Ball elasticity; the film would be funny enough if it was only its director turning in such a hilarious performance, but she’s hardly alone in this endeavour.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
B
zi (2026) David Ehrlich It’s a testament to Mao, Ha, and especially Richardson, that “Zi” retains even a soft dramatic pull as it searches for the present, though its recursive nature certainly wasn’t conceived with a casual audience in mind.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Barbara Forever (2026) Sam Bodrojan For gay cinephiles, it’s a historic gold mine, worth sifting through basically no matter the documentary’s actual quality. What a lovely relief it is, then, that the O’Connor’s film is worthy of its subject matter.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Nuisance Bear  (2026) Kate Erbland The imagery is startling. The story needs to hit even harder.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
D-
Return to Silent Hill (2026) Alison Foreman A cautionary tale: chilling proof that borrowing legendary video game symbolism without comparable skill remains the surest way to alienate a fanbase, on or off the console.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Extra Geography (2026) Esther Zuckerman “Extra Geography” is most thrilling when it leans into the undercurrent of nastiness that exists just beneath the manicured surface of this environment where properness is highly valued.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
Public Access (2026) Vikram Murthi Public Access frequently does a disservice to its actual material, which sits at the nexus of community service and avant-garde art, by having its sound and imagery constantly restate one another.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Leviticus (2026) Natalia Winkelman Leviticus is not a perfect horror film; its ending feels abrupt, and some side plots feel unfinished. Wasikowska, doing her best with a thin character, feels particularly overlooked. But the film’s moody atmosphere makes it an enjoyably disquieting ride.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant (2026) Katie Rife It all builds to a snorter of a punchline that isn’t particularly deep, but is satisfying. At the end, all that’s left is a question: Is it worse to be alien pregnant, or the regular human kind?
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
I Want Your Sex (2026) David Ehrlich A Gregg Araki movie will never be boring, and this one is a good time even when it’s tripping over itself to complicate its story and disguise the fact that it’s trying to serve as a teachable moment.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Buddy (2026) Christian Zilko It gets harder and harder to find something that feels fresh enough to be truly shocking and executed competently enough to transcend its gimmicks, and we should all celebrate when we find one.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
Josephine (2026) Kate Erbland If these questions sound heady and heavy, they are, but de Araújo’s masterful ability to interrogate tension on every level keeps the film clipping along, each turn both a surprise and an inevitability.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
The Oldest Person in the World (2026) David Ehrlich The film becomes a far more substantial thing when it begins to approach oblivion from both sides at once -- when it begins to poke at its own theory of relativity.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Saccharine (2026) Kate Erbland These ideas are big and ripe for the picking, but James’ interest in delivering a full meal verges on overstuffed. It’s haunting stuff, but perhaps not always in the intended ways.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) Kate Erbland It might not all flow in perfect step (insert ballroom dancing metaphors here), but “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!” offers an effervescent spirit so often missing in this milieu, with a lovely performance from Kikuchi at its center.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Everybody To Kenmure Street (2026) Josh Slater-Williams Despite the seriousness of the situation, “Everybody to Kenmure Street” is not a film without humor, much of it sardonic wit characteristic of the general Glaswegian disposition.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Lady (2026) Sophie Monks Kaufman If “Lady” is more successful as a series of interconnected vignettes, than as one fluid narrative, it has a moving ending up its sleeve.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
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