[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] William Friedkin’s The French Connection  ends with the...

In 2013, Red Letter Media’s Rich Evans coined the term “non-medy” to describe humor with a negative value of entertainment. Imagine a...

[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Recently, I read The Devil Finds Work , a collection of essays by...

[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] A Working Man  offers the exact sort of experience you’d expect...

[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Orochi  is one of those miracles of film preservation: a...

[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] In the Lost Lands  is a movie produced to appeal to...

[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Mickey 17  is the most compellingly horrifying dystopian sci-fi...

[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] All Shall Be Well  is best classified as a horror film—though not in...

Conclave  is a film about faith; it explores the sins of pride and hypocrisy, the virtues of doubt and uncertainty, and the terrible...

[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] The Monkey —an adaptation of a Stephen King short story that also...

[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Captain America: Brave New World  is fine. It’s neither the best comic...

[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] The Little Girl Who Conquered Time  (also known as The Girl Who...

[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Body-swap stories are a dime a dozen in Japanese pop culture...

Presence  is a fascinating formal experiment. Plenty of horror movies utilize camerawork that resembles the gravity-defying movement of a...

[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Naoko Yamada’s The Colors Within  is a work of sublime subtlety. Unlike...

[ The following review contains   MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Obscene. Perverse. Profane. Depraved. Grotesque. These...

[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] A revolver lies on a cluttered desk. Beside it: a police badge...

[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] There is a centaur in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Medea . Not a literal...

[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Stylistically, Robert Eggers’ remake of Nosferatu resembles one...

[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] There is a scene relatively early in Queer’s sprawling narrative that...