From The Editors
Toronto 2026 Review: LOOK BACK Sees Hirokazu Kore-eda Struggle to Bring Tatsuki Fujimoto's Acclaimed Manga to Life
Celebrated filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to the pages of Japanese manga for inspiration once again, unveiling this thoughtful adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s acclaimed 2021 coming-of-age one-shot, Look Back. Reuniting actresses Natsuki Deguchi and Aju Makita, both of whom featured prominently...
Toronto 2026 Review: ELSINORE, Centered By Andrew Scott's Haunting, Unforgettable Performance
In Elsinore, the new biopic on Scottish actor Ian Charleson (1949-1990), director Simon Stone thankfully avoids most of the usual cliches of the genre to create a deeper cinematic experience. Anchored by Stephen Beresford's (Pride, 2014) script, with a career-defining...
Anime Weekly: Crunchyroll's Fall 2026 Season Revealed
'#I'm Looking for a Zombie,' 'Dreamland,' and much more.
RESIDENT EVIL Review: Zach Cregger Brilliantly Reimagines the Decades-Old Series for Our Discontented Times
After 25 years, seven films, an animated series, and even a live album, it took Zach Cregger, the writer-director behind back-to-back horror standouts, Barbarian and Weapons, to properly adapt Resident Evil, CapCom’s survival-horror videogame franchise, into a live-action film that...
SLOW HORSES S6 E1 Recap: You're a Target. And So Are You. You Too.
Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, and Kristin Scott Thomas reprise their roles in the British spy series.
Toronto 2026 Review: BAD LIEUTENANT: TOKYO, Takashi Miike's Fairy Tale of Redemption
Is the Bad Lieutenant ‘franchise’ an excuse for wild auteur filmmakers to craft slyly black comedies full of sex and violence, and ideation-detritus that never made it into their other pictures? Is the Bad Lieutenant franchise even a franchise, or...
GRIZZLY MAN Heads to Criterion Collection in December 2026, Plus NASHVILLE in 4K
Also: Anthony Mingella's 'The English Patient,' Pietro Germi's 'Divorce Italian Style,' Ernst Lubitsch's 'The Shop Around the Corner,' and 'Sara Gómez's Revolutionary Cuba.'
THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE Review: Nothing Is Permanent
John Wilson's documentary is illuminating, fascinating, hilarious, and poignant.
Home Video: THREADS 4K, THE WAR GAME 4K, and More From Severin
The list of films dealing directly with what it might be like to experience a nuclear war at ground zero is shorter than you might think. As powerful as Dr. Strangelove (1964), and Fail Safe (1962) are, they’re also highly...
Echoes: Pakistan Has An Indie Film Movement. Why Aren't We Talking About It?
Traditional Pakistani cinema relies on commercial Eid releases, celebrity-led projects, and box-office numbers, implying a risk-averse industry culture. However, there's another kind of cinema that is quietly in the making: Pakistani indie cinema. I have talked about films that we...
Toronto 2026 Review: WILD HORSE NINE, All Flourish and No Feeling
What does Salvadore Allende’s 9/11, Hank Williams, the JFK assassination, and an empathy for insects have in common? How does a stable democracy result in homosexuality, which leads, eventually, to fine quality cheeses? Writer-director hyphenate Martin McDonagh is here to...
Toronto 2026 Review: FURIES, A Feverishly Hellish Heist By Women Scorned
What is the world coming to when you have to steal your own hard earned money? Dalia is in need of a significant surgery. Until then, her medicine is only available on the black market, where half of it is...
Toronto 2026 Review: ALL OF A SUDDEN, Gently Drawing the Viewer Into More Difficult Realities
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's latest, All of a Sudden is a revelation. A meditation on the everyday lives of his characters and the weightier ideas orbiting them, the film transcends the experiences and ideas it presents. Considering that the film glides between...
Opening This Week: RESIDENT EVIL, BAD APPLES, SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM
Plus: 'The History of Concrete' and 'The Weight.'
THE SECRET AGENT 4K Review: A Masterpiece of Memory and Resistance
It's hard to fathom, even in hindsight, how a film about a dictatorship, its long reach into the lives of seemingly ordinary people, a love of old movie houses and carnivals, and something of an experimental narrative structure, could translate...
Toronto 2026 Review: MINOTAUR, Russia As A Psychological-Visual Labyrinth
Andrey Zvyagintsev interrogates Russia in the same way 1990s era Zhang Yimou interrogated China: Methodically, metaphorically, and with an astutely savage eye for beautiful visuals to mask the criticism. There is a scene in his latest film, Minotaur, where the...
WHEN EMMA CAME HOME: Filming Wraps on Upcoming Psychological Horror Film From Viral Filmmaker Spencer Keller
Filming has wrapped on an upcoming psychological horror flick When Emma Came Home, the feature debut from viral filmmaker Spencer Keller. ... an ambitious documentary filmmaker (...) sets out to discover what happened twenty years ago when a girl...
Vlissingen 2026 Review: YOURI, A Great Film About A Great Friendship
The Film by the Sea festival in Vlissingen (a.k.a. Flushing) started this year on a high note with its opening film Youri, by Sander Burger. The festival always has a large section dedicated to literary adaptations, and its main theme...
Celluloid Screams 2026: Sheffield Horror Film Festival Announces Lineup
With spooky season running head on like a psycho killer wielding a machete our attention turns to the regional genre festivals that happen around the UK. Every year we check in on our friends at Celluloid Screams, the horror film...
MOTELX 2026 Award Winners: NO REST FOR THE WICKED And MANCAVE win Best European films, IT'S CHICO TIME! wins Best Portuguese Short
The twentieth edition of this year's MOTELX film festival is drawing to a close today. The award winners were announced yesterday, so it is time for a bit of catch up. The Méliès d’argent Awards for the best European...
