Sundance Review: R#J Retells a Shakespeare Classic Through Social Media with a Pandering Touch

What if, instead of meeting on a balcony by moonlight, Romeo and Juliet exchanged dog gifs and memes from The Office over Instagram DMs? Wouldn’t it have been ...

Rotterdam Review: Riders of Justice Sets Mads Mikkelsen on a Rollercoaster of Twists

Opening the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam is Anders Thomas Jensen's entertaining rollercoaster of a film Riders of Justice, following a soldier na...

Sundance Review: Jerrod Carmichael’s Directorial Debut On the Count of Three Finds Humor in Hopelessness

Considering the raw, uncomfortable truths found in Jerrod Carmichael’s comedy, the logline of his directorial debut shouldn’t come as a surprise: two friends m...

The Best Undistributed Films of 2020

After highlighting the most overlooked films of 2020, today we're putting a spotlight on the films that need a home to be seen in the first place: the 40 or so...

The Midnight Sky Review: George Clooney Panders with Saccharine Sci-Fi Drama

Since the release of Gravity in 2013, George Clooney has been in quite the acting slump, with Brad Bird’s severely underrated Tomorrowland as the lone bright s...

69: The Saga of Daniel Hernandez Review: 6ix9ine Doc Fails to Interrogate its Own Trolling Subject

69: The Saga of Daniel Hernandez, the latest documentary from Vikram Gandhi, is a cute title but it hardly fits the bill. What felt like a promising premise an...

Nightstream Review: Lapsis is Dystopian Sci-Fi That Hits Close to Home

As multi-billion dollar corporations expand their reach within their respective industries (and beyond), the wage gap in our country increases. Executives are ...

Posterized October 2020: Possessor, Fire Will Come, Synchronic & More

The amount of high-ish profile movies coming out this month almost makes it seem like the industry is back in business. It's not. They're mostly all li...

The Trial of the Chicago 7 Review: Aaron Sorkin Hits Career Low in Nuance-Free Courtroom Drama

Well, burnt-out history teachers have a new movie to kill two class periods. That’s assuming they can get permission slips from parents to show it to studen...

TIFF Review: Rosamund Pike is a Charismatically Ruthless Anti-Hero in the Black Comedy I Care A Lot

It's the kind of grift that would make 'Slippin'" Jimmy McGill proud. Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike) calls up her friend Dr. Amos (Alicia Witt) to get a line on...