Peyton List’s Mystery Series Is Still a Ghostly Great Time
Just like fashion trends, teen mystery dramas never really go out of style. Take the first season of Paramount+'s School Spirits as an example: a supernatural, YA murder mystery that felt like a worthy successor to the deliciously angsty roadmap…
Read more
‘Hal & Harper’ Review: Mark Ruffalo and Lili Reinhart Are Tremendous in Cooper Raiff’s Brilliant Dramedy Series
With just two films, writer, director, and actor Cooper Raiff has found a very specific voice that manages to be honest, relatable, and extremely earnest in equal measure. With his 2020 debut Shithouse, he created an almost Richard Linklater-esque romance…
Read more
Dev Patel’s Deeply Unsettling Folk Horror Is A Masterful Auditory Experience You Won’t Get Anywhere Else This Year
Rabbit Trap is full of melancholy and longing. It’s one of the first things I picked up when an unnamed child (Jade Croot) shows up at Daphne (Rosy McEwen) and Darcy’s (Dev Patel) remote home in the Welsh countryside. Writer-director…
Read more
‘Bunnylovr’ Review: This Intimate Feature Debut Heralds a New Up-and-Coming Visionary
Growing up in an age where the world is totally online is weird. Interpersonal relationships end up being completely digital, strangers become friends and you might never know their real names, where they're from, or even what they look like.…
Read more
I Wasn’t Ready For Rose Byrne To Blow Me Away As A Mother On A Downward Spiral
Cinema that explores women in any of their roles has always had a special place in my heart. Women who are particularly struggling with something within the confines of their lives and are on the cusp of becoming a bit…
Read more![Olivia Colman And John Lithgow In A Queer Family Tale With The Best Of Intentions [Sundance]](https://www.filmibee.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/1738041160_Olivia-Colman-And-John-Lithgow-In-A-Queer-Family-Tale.jpg)
Olivia Colman And John Lithgow In A Queer Family Tale With The Best Of Intentions [Sundance]
PARK CITY – In a world of seemingly endless chaos, where queer people all over the world have to fight harder than ever not to have their human rights torn away, it’s somewhat difficult to critique a movie such as…
Read more
Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)’ Review: A Quartet of Subtle but Stunning Coming-of-Age Stories
Kinds of Kindness. The French Dispatch. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Anthology films are having something of a moment right now. Whether the vignettes are connected thematically, by location, or both, it can be challenging — even for established auteurs…
Read more
‘Predators’ Review: A Reflective, Soulful Documentary on ‘To Catch a Predator’s Harmful Legacy
Editor's note: The below review contains content that may be triggering for some readers, including references to pedophilia and sexual predation. One of the worst casualties of the streaming era is how independent documentary filmmaking has fallen even more to…
Read more
I Didn’t Throw Up Watching This Gruesome Body Horror, But I Understand Why Someone Did
Written and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, The Ugly Stepsister is a subversive body horror that twists the familiar tale of Cinderella and gives us a psychological beauty-is-pain ride that is as explosive as it is encompassing. What I love most…
Read more
Tom Green Documentary Review: Insightful Idiocy
Being an idiot in the 90s was a recipe for success that spawned the early 2000s shows like Jackass, and Dirty Sanchez to step it up tenfold just to stand out but there is one man who defined TV idiot…
Read more
‘SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)’ Review: Questlove Explores Sly and the Family Stone in Brilliant, Straightforward Fashion
In Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s tremendous Oscar-winning documentary, Summer of Soul (…OR, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), the musician-turned-filmmaker covered the incredible yet forgotten music festival that featured such iconic acts as Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, and The 5th…
Read more
An Entertainment Icon Receives An Adequate Documentary Treatment
When it comes to a first name, few throughout history possess the level of recognition a mere utterance of Liza maintains; it’s this sentiment that kicks off a documentary entitled “Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story,” as we’re simultaneously…
Read more