Sinners (2025) is the film that moviegoers have been waiting for. If you're tired of remakes, sequels, and adaptations, this is the delectable cuisine you've been craving. One of Hollywood's best working directors crafts an original script featuring one of the industry's most alluring stars. It's a genre movie with swagger, a period piece that isn't trapped by expectations. It's the best this year has yet to offer.
Ryan Coogler is one of my favorite directors, and I've been anticipating…
Bong Joon-ho's follow-up to a keen, generational film in Parasite (2019) is in another lane altogether from his earlier work... and yet, it encapsulates so much of what Bong has done throughout his 30 years as a filmmaker.
Mickey 17 (2025) is perhaps Bong's most calculatedly volatile. Bong's filmography has never been the easiest for a western audience to palate, but Mickey 17 bridges the accessibility of Snowpiercer (2013) with various aspects of his Korean work. It possesses the dark…
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Pulse (2001) makes its thesis clear: the loneliness that isolation breeds will render us shadowy husks of humans, especially in the digital age.
I definitely appreciate and value the sentiment Kurosawa sends there, and its delivery is characteristic of the rest of the exceptional work I've seen from him. There's a beauty and horror to the methodical, eerie cinematography, blocking, and shadows at play in Pulse. Conceptually, this is really fascinating.
However, this was altogether one-note and unengaging for me…
Backrooms (2026) has been marinating in my head for a couple of days now, and I certainly have to give it its flowers for that.
I'll open with the obligatory reference to its 20-year-old director and the way he's clearly comfortable in his role here. I know Kane Parsons has been making Backrooms content for years now, but he really expands the story into something worthwhile and interesting in this feature.
Though the film wears its themes on its sleeve…
Entirely imperative, intentionally ludicrous, earnestly heartfelt, and utterly propulsive.
One Battle After Another (2025) has a chance to be the year's defining blockbuster, encapsulating a time and place synonymous with the decade as a whole. The heartbeat of a revolution belongs in the chest of One Battle After Another, with its DNA structured with confidently pioneering work by Paul Thomas Anderson.
PTA's understanding of what propels a narrative and how to expertly capture and tell it is extraordinary. I was…
