[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Fall Guy is the perfect English title for Kinji Fukasaku’s scathing...

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The Criterion Channel categorizes The Comfort of Strangers as an "erotic...

But I’m a Cheerleader is the epitome of camp. I’m not just talking about the film’s depiction of homosexuality, by the way. Yes, it is...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Like many serial killer stories, Vengeance Is Mine begins with the...

Sada is based upon the same infamous true crime that inspired In the Realm of the Senses. Of course, director Nobuhiko Obayashi (best...

Last Hurrah for Chivalry is aptly titled: what begins as a fairly typical revenge narrative gradually evolves into a dark, subversive...

I’ve been meaning to better acquaint myself with Hong Sang-soo’s work for quite a while now. Granted, that’s no easy task; he’s among the...

If you’ve seen one film inspired by playwright Monzaemon Chikamatsu's work, you’ve pretty much seen them all. Gonza the Spearman, Night...

Let’s get this out of the way: the premise of Sailor Suit and Machine Gun is patently absurd. No self-respecting yakuza family—no matter...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS AND VIVID DESCRIPTIONS OF GRAPHIC VIOLENCE; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Evil Dead Rise gets off...

The fateful first encounter between the co-protagonists of Bound—Jennifer Tilly’s femme (albeit not necessarily fatale) mob moll Violet...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Suzume distills Makoto Shinkai’s recurring themes into a single...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] What happens when four bumbling murder hobos stumble upon a quest...

From Max Schreck’s ghoulishly feral Count Orlok to Lon Chaney’s grotesquely disfigured Phantom of the Opera, the movie monsters of the...

Why wasn’t I notified that A Page of Madness is currently streaming on Prime Video? This essential work of Japanese silent cinema has...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] John Wick: Chapter 4 opens with Laurence Fishburne’s delightfully...

[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The Scream formula is nothing if not dependable. At this point,...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The Criterion Channel’s synopsis of Hideo Gosha’s Death Shadow’s...

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] A Cynthia Rothrock vehicle is currently featured on the front page of the...

AKUTAGAWA opens with the construction of a puppet. As the eponymous author writes feverishly, pausing only to puff on his cigarette and...