July 25, 2026

Please read: an important update about this website before the review of “The Wizard of the Kremlin” (2026)

I’m returning to this site’s roots: brief, no-frills reviews for people on the run. Originally, that meant a short synopsis plus 1-2 paragraphs of thoughts—but… READ MORE

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July 19, 2026

Evil Dead Burn (2026)

Grief makes liars of families. Everyone stands at the funeral saying the right things about the man in the box, and nobody mentions the bruises… READ MORE

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July 18, 2026

The Odyssey (2026)

Nolan pulls this one off, mostly, and that alone deserves a moment of applause given how many directors have tried and abandoned Homer over the… READ MORE

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July 14, 2026

The Invite (2026)

Olivia Wilde’s The Invite earns its squirms early and keeps finding new ones for the best part of two hours. Joe (Seth Rogen), a onetime… READ MORE

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July 13, 2026

Saccharine (2026)

I expected to like this movie from what I heard about it beforehand. Turns out: I loved it! Horror pictures about diet culture often have… READ MORE

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July 3, 2026

Silent Friend (2025)

Silent Friend, Ildikó Enyedi’s triptych about a ginkgo tree and the three lives that orbit it across a century, asks the audience to do something… READ MORE

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July 1, 2026

Supergirl (2026)

Milly Alcock carries this movie the way her character, Kara Zor-El, carries the weight of a world that no longer exists, and for long stretches,… READ MORE

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June 27, 2026

Backrooms (2026)

The anomalous door (the one that opens onto something the building has no business containing) is among the oldest instruments in horror, and Kane Parsons,… READ MORE

June 26, 2026

Leviticus (2026)

Leviticus is an intelligent and often affecting piece of Australian horror, even if it never quite gathers the force needed to become something truly haunting…. READ MORE

June 24, 2026

The Death of Robin Hood (2026)

Hugh Jackman has spent much of his career playing men who cannot outrun what they are, and Robin Hood proves no exception. Michael Sarnoski’s The… READ MORE