‘Romería’ Review: Carla Simón’s Restrained Coming-of-Age Tale Opens Up the Doors of History and Cinema [B+] Atlanta Film Festival
It’s July 2004 on the sunny Atlantic coast of Spain, in the city of Vigo, Galicia, the gateway to the Cíes Islands. Eighteen-year-old Marina (Llúcia... Read More
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‘Idiots’ Review: Dave Franco and O’Shea Jackson Jr. Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore [B] Atlanta Film Festival
It doesn’t matter whether you call writer-director Macon Blair’s raucous new comedy by its festival-circuit title, The Shitheads, or its cleaner, more marketable new name,... Read More
‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Review: The Iconic Platforming Plumber is Asphyxiated in an Intergalactic IP Spree [C-]
There’s a sense of resignation that comes with watching The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. To see the sequel to Illumination’s 2023 mega-hit adaptation of Nintendo’s... Read More
SXSW 2026 Reviews: ‘Sender,’ ‘The Saviors,’ ‘Hokum’ Highlight the Stars of ‘Severance’
A clear theme emerged out of a few movies from this year’s SXSW film line-up: Severance. Specifically, Britt Lower and Adam Scott, who topline the... Read More
‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ Review: BenDavid Grabinski Asks ‘What if Wong Kar-Wai Made a Gangster Love Triangle Sci-Fi Action Buddy Comedy’? [A-] SXSW
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is an increasingly rare variety of film, the kind that movie fans keep clamoring for studios to finance... Read More
‘I Love Boosters’ Review: Boots Riley’s Dressed to Excess Cartoon Revolution is Too Much and Not Enough [B-] SXSW
There’s often a romanticization of “breaking the rules” in filmmaking. It’s laudable when filmmakers color outside the lines and refuse to conform to typical standards... Read More
‘Project Hail Mary’ Review: Ryan Gosling is Stuck Between a Rocky and a Hard Place in Crowdpleasing Sci-Fi Buddy Movie Adventure [A-]
Hollywood hasn’t had a creative muse like Andy Weir in quite some time. Though not nearly as prolific, his combination of hard-science technical detailing imprinted... Read More
‘The Bride!’ Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Goes For Baroque in Messy, Misguided Post-Modern Monster Movie [D]
When the opening frames of The Bride! displays introductory text establishing that Mary Shelley wrote her classic Gothic tragedy, Frankenstein, on a dare, it feels... Read More
Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol on the Unlikely, Legally-Challenged Journey of Getting ‘Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie’ to the Big Screen [VIDEO INTERVIEW]
Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol desperately want to play the Rivoli in Toronto. That’s been the ongoing premise for the two creatives’ web series-turned-TV show-turned-movie... Read More
‘Return to Silent Hill’ Review: Christophe Gans’s Belated Sequel Gets Lost in the Fog of Lackluster Video Game Movies [C-]
Fans of Silent Hill—legendary Japanese game developer Konami’s landmark psychological horror series (typically) about the terrors lurking within a quiet, Midwestern American hamlet—have had a... Read More
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Colman Domingo to Receive Variety Creative Conscience Award at 50th San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival (Frameline50) 
Interview: Ildikó Enyedi on Working with Tony Leung and Léa Seydoux and Her Triptych Storytelling in ‘Silent Friend’ 
Winners Announced for Golden Gate, Audience Awards of the 69th San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM)