Charade Review (Criterion Collection)
Famously described as "the best Hitchcock film Hitchcock never made", Stanley Donen's Charade has spent more than sixty years being...
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Girlfriends Review
Love and acceptance shouldn’t be such a topical and controversial issue in 2026. This perspective comes from someone born and...
Toy Story 5 Review
It's not exactly an original observation, but the first three Toy Story films remain one of cinema's great trilogies. The...
The Apologist Review (Sheffield DocFest 2026)
Great literature works have warned us; personal heartbreaks have prepared us. Politicians have failed us, yes, but I know no...
Nino Review
What would you do if you found out you had cancer just before your birthday? Nino, a journalist turned filmmaker, Pauline...
House of the Dragon Season 3 Review (HBO Max)
Power has always been the driving force behind House of the Dragon. Season 3 is far more interested in the...
Winter of the Crow (2026 SXSW London Review)
Based on a short story by Olga Tokarczuk called “Professor Andrews Goes to Warsaw,” Winter of the Crow is set...
It Would Be Night in Caracas Review (2026 SXSW London)
Based on a 2019 novel of the same name written by Karina Sainz Borgos, It Would Be Night in Caracas,...
Time Machine Maidan Review (2026 Sheffield DocFest)
My thoughts need a bit of a preface. War has a way of introducing ugly contradictions, in a degenerative way,...
Cruel Tale of Bushido Review (Eureka Entertainment)
Subservience to a greater power is something we all experience, even as we strive to be the masters of our...
The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford Review
It is a funny thing, memory. Tales from our ancestors are passed down every day. But with each rendition, how...
Every Year After Review (Prime Video)
Some stories are about first love. Every Year After is about what happens when it never quite leaves you. Prime...
Disclosure Day Review
He’s one of the greatest cinematic storytellers of our times, which makes a film helmed by Steven Spielberg more of...
The Invite Review (2026 SXSW London)
Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz, and Edward Norton have a dinner party that goes wrong. If that isn't reason...