Michel Franco’s Cruel Sex-Driven Immigration Drama Goes For The Most Obvious of Targets

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Michel Franco’s Cruel Sex-Driven Immigration Drama Goes For The Most Obvious of Targets

Michel Franco's Dreams operates under the assumption that its political prescience will be enough to sustain its relatively quick ninety-minute runtime. A portrait of a turbulent and toxic romance between Jennifer (Jessica Chastain) a rich socialite whose business is arts…

Josephine Decker Brings The Art, Iliza Shlesinger Brings The Heart To This Texan Tale [Sundance]

“Chasing Summer” may be the movie that cements filmmaker Josephine Decker’s status as an auteur in the original sense of the word. She’s not a brand name with a set of aesthetics that the average film fan can identify in…

Hulu’s Sci-Fi Thriller Gets Even Better With New Characters and Bigger Twists

Paradise was one of the surprise TV hits in 2025. Sure, it had the team-up of This Is Us showrunner Dan Fogelman and his Emmy-winning star Sterling K. Brown. The premiere managed to pull off another surprise in the vein…

Daniel Radcliffe’s Sharp New Sitcom Puts a Fresh Spin on Mockumentaries

After The Office and Parks and Recreation introduced the mockumentary genre through awkward glances and a camera catching what characters wish it wouldn’t (we still think about you, Michael Scott), The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins most cleverly treats…

The Testament of Ann Lee Review

It’s been said that The Testament of Ann Lee is Amanda Seyfried’s answer to not getting cast as Glinda in Wicked. Whether or not that thought ever crossed Seyfried’s head, it’s ironic that neither this film nor Wicked: For Good…

A Piercing Shriek of Terror

Corin Hardy’s Whistle arrives with a premise so simple and sinister it practically markets itself: a group of teenagers discover an ancient Aztec death whistle, and each time it’s blown, it summons the embodiment of their own future deaths. What…

Pastiche Horror Wears Its Aesthetic Influence On Its Padded 1970s Shoulders To Both Juicy and Exhausting Effect

There's a common refrain about marriage that stipulates you'll end up finding yourself in a myriad of new relationships throughout its lifespan. The person you marry is not the person they will be in twenty years. Hell, they're not the…

Sam Raimi’s Bonkers Survival Horror Comedy Is Deliriously Demented

There are practically three movies inside genre maestro Sam Raimi’s hilariously bonkers “Send Help,” a deviously dark thriller-cum-horror comedy. There’s its first act—office politics and workplace f*ckery, hinting at power-play dynamics and control-freak dominion. Then comes its second chapter, where…

Try Not to Cry During HBO’s Most Emotional Goodbye Yet

Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for The Pitt Season 2 Episode 6. A third of The Pitt Season 2 is already over. In that time, audiences have watched Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch (Noah Wyle) struggle through his last…

Ryan Murphy’s JFK Jr. Drama Hits Hardest in the Scenes That Never Made Headlines

When The Crown premiered its final season, it felt like the end of an era. The Netflix series created by Peter Morgan dove deep into the British monarchy through the lens of Queen Elizabeth II and her immediate family, while…

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Review

28 Years Later wasn’t the legacy sequel that people expected. That’s not to say the film was bad by any means. If anything, it was more admirable than 28 Weeks Later, which played like a conventional follow-up. While still cut…

Suffocating Dread and Some Frustration

We’re officially in the era of the YouTuber movie, and honestly, I’m not complaining. The best examples of which being Danny and Michael Philippou‘s Talk to Me and Bring Her Back, while last year saw the release of the impressively creepy Shelby Oaks, helmed…

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