From The Editors
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 4K Review: Nerve Jangling, To Say the Least
Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins star in Jonathan Demme's chilling adaptation of Thomas Harris' novel.
WILDWOOD Review: Often Breathless, Usually Reckless, Always Enchanting
Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, and Cary Mulligan star in the animated action-adventure from director Travis Knight and LAIKA Studios.
CLAYFACE Review: Newly Revived DCU Saves Its Best for Third
Ranked by one supposedly well-respected site as only the 73rd “best” Batman villain, Clayface’s journey from the comic book panel to the big screen has taken a long, not quite circuitous route. Thanks to horror auteur Mike Flanagan (The Fall...
KLARA AND THE SUN Review: Woefully Uneven Adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Novel Disappoints
Taika Waititi's new film stars Jenna Ortega, with Amy Adams and Natasha Lyonne.
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: POSTHUMOUS, Tapes from the Darkside
Throughout the years, such films as Wolf Creek, The Babadook, The Loved Ones, Lake Mungo, Talk to Me, and many others collectively contributed to turning the audience into a proverbial Pavlov’s dog: A new Australian horror movie is always a...
Chicago 2026 Review: THE SPIRAL Turns a Family Story Into a Faustian Nightmare
In the Italian Oscar entry, the family that makes a deal with the devil stays together.
London 2026 Review: CLUB KID, Jordan Firstman's Warm and Tragic Bad Dad Dramedy
A stealth rebuild of a middling Adam Sandler film proves to be one of the year's best and most affecting films.
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: ERIE, Debut Found Footage Horror Overcomplicates Its Own Style
In the late 1990s, the city of Erie, Pennsylvania, experiences an epidemic of inexplicable deaths. One of the victims is Iris Scott (Aimee Paxton), whose strange death in the woods is eventually ruled a suicide, like most of the other...
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: SLAY, Witty Tribute to Classic Slashers
While AI obviously (and rightfully) suppressed pretty much all other dangers to humanity as the villain of our times, the rabbit hole that is social media and influencer culture is still too great a fodder for filmmakers to pass up....
WICKER Review: Witty Modern Fairy Tale Hits the Spot
Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Elizabeth Debicki, and Peter Dinklage star in prickly yet delightful film.
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: PATHETIC FALLACY, True Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Every film festival program, no matter how expansive and diverse, usually has a bunch of movies that objectively aren’t bad, but aren’t particularly great either. When thinking about such films and what might be weighing them down, the conclusion you...
SLAYGROUND Official Teaser: Jeremy Saulnier Invites You to The Slayground in New Teaser
Scare-actor "Metal Mike" Graves wakes up in a haunted attraction surrounded by the dead bodies of his co-workers with no memory of how they got there. As a state-wide manhunt closes in, he races to uncover the truth - even if the trail leads straight back to him.
VIRGINA Review: Boys Do Cry
While not in every culture in human history has elevated male children to the point of all but killing (or even that) their female children, too many have long-held beliefs that boys bring luck and prosperity, whereas girls (despite doing...
Toronto After Dark 2026 Short Film Short Review: MOIRA, An Ambiguous European Arthouse Gem
A patient shot of a damp London metro platform opens Anastasia Mischenko's superlative short film Moira. It's a shot that instantly evokes the static-adroit Euro-cinema of early 2000s Bruno Dumont, and the more recent work of Milagros Mumenthaler (The Currents). A...
Toronto After Dark 2026 Review: MY LOVE FOR YOU IS DEEP, BUT THE DEVIL LOVES ME DEEPER
Alice is a dreamer. She wants true love, intense love, and reciprocated love. She is not finding it in the clubs with her girlfriend, though, and her current boyfriend is clearly not into her. You can hear it in his...
CHRISTIANE F. 4K Review: Under the Influence
"We could be heroes," sings David Bowie, if only these kids could get off the heroin just for one day.
Opening This Week: WICKER Man, WILDWOOD Rescue, CLAYFACE Horror
Plus: 'A Talent for Murder,' 'Klara and the Sun,' 'Possible Love.'
Chicago 2026 Review: A CITY IN THE FOREST, Rallying Cry for the American Left
Throughout A City in the Forest, which tracks various forms of opposition to Atlanta's "Cop City" from 2020 to 2023, the filmmakers shout that they are press to ensure that they are not attacked by police who are violently arresting...
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2026 Review: CHIMNEY TOWN: FROZEN IN TIME
Six years ago, CGI-special effects specialist Hirota Yuusuke directed his first feature film, the anime Poupelle of Chimney Town, which I happened to like a lot. He just released his second feature, and it is... a sequel to Poupelle of...
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM Review: Mesmerizing Blast from the Past
In 1972, director, editor, producer, and actor William Greaves, whose body of work includes Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) and Nationtime (1972), gathered the remaining luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance in Duke Ellington’s apartment on 157th. This meeting resulted in four...
