Reviews
‘The Unheard’ Review
Suspense and catharsis are mined from the same place in Jeffrey Brown's plodding horror/drama.
‘A Wounded Fawn’ Review
Travis Stevens's movie starts out narratively straightforward before shifting into another thing entirely, with the force of a snapping bone.
Fantastic Fest Review: ‘All Jacked Up and Full of Worms’
Director Alex Phillips has devised a 72-minute movie that probably can't be compared to much else, and that certainly won't be for everyone.
Fantastic Fest Review: ‘Huesera’
The feature debut by Michelle Garza Cervera is most engaging when it drills down into starkly human anxieties.
‘Speak No Evil’ Review
This amusingly grim Sundance stunner arrives on Shudder this week, and ruptures through the limits of fiction when it’s at its best.
‘Resurrection’ Review
Powerhouse performances make this moderately deranged story about past demons and inner demons one to watch.
‘Crimes of the Future’ Review
Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux dig into themselves – literally – and search for meaning along the edge of humanity's next chapter.
‘Firestarter’ Review
Stephen King's 1980 novel about a girl cursed with pyrotechnic abilities is adapted by a team eager to revise and failing to justify themselves.
‘The Innocents’ Review
This Norwegian horror-drama has ice in its veins, but also extends a hand of empathy towards its vulnerable young ensemble.
‘Hatching’ Review
Hanna Bergholm's feature directorial debut is devilish, thematically tangled slice of creature-feature grotesquerie.
‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ Review
Writer/director Jane Schoenbrun channels the anxiety, spontaneity and strange solace of living online in her ultratense feature debut.
‘A Banquet’ Review
Ruth Paxton's feature directorial debut is a feast of mood let down by its distracted plot.
‘The Last Thing Mary Saw’ Review
The first feature from writer-director Edoardo Vitaletti takes some of the best lessons from "The Witch," but its narrative is missing momentum.
‘We Need to Do Something’ Review
Sean King O'Grady's feature debut is a nasty bit of limited-perspective horror dulled by dramatic slightness during a maybe-apocalypse.
‘Censor’ Review
The grimy history of mania targeting violent art lays the foundations for this adequate movie, but its most interesting ideas are left at the door.
‘Caveat’ Review
If you're looking for minimal, unpredictable counterprogramming to the blockbuster scale of "The Conjuring 3," "Caveat" will do spooky wonders.
‘In the Earth’ Review
If there’s one thing Wheatley excels at, it’s starting from a place of benign normalcy and ending somewhere so irrevocably contradictory you’d think the director had a chronic case of change-of-heart midway through his productions.
‘Come True’ Review
An intriguing but narratively self-defeating mash-up of “Stranger Things,” “Inception” and stark ‘80s paranoia, “Come True” – the second feature directorial effort from Anthony Scott Burns – puts a ghoulish spin on cinema’s defining ability to turn the audience into voyeurs.
'Lucky' Review
Natasha Kermani's new movie has whiffs of belonging in the busy time-loop subgenre, but it turns those attributes into a commentary that's all its own.
‘Sator’ Review
Writer-director Jordan Graham did much more than write and direct over the seven-year production of “Sator,” his effectively creepy and unexpectedly personal backwoods tale.