Reviews

[Review] The Girl in the Photographs

Nick Simon's The Girl in the Photographs seems to be a story reverse-engineered from its final image -- which, for a low-budget horror film, is an effective one...

[Review] Get a Job

Directed by Dylan Kidd, Get A Job stars Miles Teller as Will, the Millennial From Hell. Fresh out of college, our hero (?) expects everything to work for him li...

[Review] The American Dreamer

It’s easy to map out the Dennis Hopper trajectory: mid-50’s/ -60’s classical Hollywood bit player to '70s weirdo maverick to '90s Hollywood-blockbuster villain ...

[ND/NF Review] Kill Me Please

Following in a wave of cerebral psychological horror films such as The Witch, It Follows, and The Babadook, Anita Rocha da Silveira’s debut Kill Me Please is th...

[ND/NF Review] Kaili Blues

At its heart, Bi Gan's Kaili Blues is a meditation on the struggle between traditionalism and modernism. Through the story of one man’s journey through Chinese ...

[ND/NF Review] I Promise You Anarchy

I Promise You Anarchy, by writer-director Julio Hernández Cordón, titillates equally with its queer sensuality and noirish crime, neither of which is entirely t...

[Review] Valley of Love

From Sophie's Choice to My Sister’s Keeper, child loss has been the subject of everything from prestige Oscar pictures to YA drivel. It’s an understandable foc...

[Review] They’re Watching

What do you get when you combine uninventive found footage, a location chosen specifically for its cheap production costs, and CGI the likes of which has not be...

[Review] Alienated

Who isn't self-centered? If you find someone, please let me know, because I don't think that person exists. Even when we are at our most compassionate, empathet...