Smile 2
Writer-director Parker Finn’s Smile 2 – the follow-up to his surprise 2022 horror hit – picks up less than a week after its predecessor’s bleak
Writer-director Parker Finn’s Smile 2 – the follow-up to his surprise 2022 horror hit – picks up less than a week after its predecessor’s bleak
Writer-director Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man is a smart, morbid, and unexpectedly funny film, but it plays a bit of a long game, only gradually
A feature-length Tales from the Crypt episode that mashes up The Picture of Dorian Gray, All About Eve (1950), and Death Becomes Her (1992) into
Lisandro Alonso is often cited as one of the reigning masters of slow cinema, but this perhaps undersells just how defiantly unconcerned the Argentine filmmaker
They say time heals all wounds, but such an expression long pre-dates the advent of the motion picture: a living thing that has the power
A few weeks ago, I watched a documentary series about Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, the so-called Ken & Barbie Killers. In the early 1990s,
[This retrospective essay on the features of independent Missouri filmmaker Blake Eckard was originally written in 2018. Additional minor edits have been made for clarity
During the first two-thirds of Tilman Singer’s sophomore film, Cuckoo, the vibes are impeccably odd. Even before openly bizarre things begin to happen, everything in
Somebody killed Granny Four. It’s the sort of news nobody wants to hear, and yet it surprises no one. That’s because there’s an assumption, a
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