REVIEWS
Post-film thoughts.
Is God Is: Sins of the Father
Harris perfectly blends the silly with the sinister, crafting unique and quirky characters that provide moments for off-hand situational comedy but also slowly grow the dark cloud that is their father. By the time his face graces the screen in the final act, his reputation precedes him.
Half Man: Violent Delights, Violent Ends
But where it could take measures to insulate itself from criticism or social media outrage, Half Man never apologizes for itself. It depicts people making selfish decisions and all the wrong choices—not simply to be sensational, but to paint a grounded, gritty, and realistic portrayal of toxic masculinity.
bbno$ In Concert: Internet Explorer Never Felt So Alive
Even his outfit matched the aesthetic, rocking the Internet Explorer logo as a belt, and decorating his jacket with giant pins of a mouse cursor and the Chrome Dino.
Tuner: All Ears on Roher
If a film doesn’t engage an audience well, scattered audience reactions can feel lame and serve to reinforce a film’s unfunniness. Fortunately, Tuner’s well-written and well-paced screenplay ensured plenty of laughs and a good time for the Sundance audience.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die: The Future Is Bright, Right?
On a random evening in a Los Angeles diner, a “man from the future” (Sam Rockwell) assembles an unlikely team of strangers to rid the world of a rogue artificial intelligence. What follows is a frantic race to save humanity from its own creation.
The Pitt Season 2: Hell Is an ER
Season 2’s slower pace does not make it any less unrelenting in its plot decisions. Set on the Fourth of July, this season of The Pitt expertly straddles all the comedy and tragedy that comes from taking care of people during a holiday weekend.
5 Seconds of Summer In Concert: A 6-Act Show Full of Energy
On April 9, 2026, they performed at the Accor Arena in Paris, France, to the delight of the fans. It had been 10 years since they last came to the massive hall and filled its 20,300 seats and the Australian band was determined to show just how much they had grown since then.
The Drama: Ignorance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Balancing the film’s weaker moments and its tendency to rely on rather superficial aspects of its story, Zendaya and Pattinson both deliver impressively nuanced interpretations and manage to bring a strong physicality to the internal struggles of their characters.
Wasteman: Who We’ve Left Behind
Shot over the course of only 18 days, Wasteman (2026) is an adrenaline rush that never subsides. It is a pressure cooker of a film. There is a consistent, thrumming tension in even the stillest moments thanks to a searing script by Hunter Andrews and Eoin Doran.
Sukkwan Island: Love Out in the Cold
After a long career with supporting roles, Arlaud’s talents are finally omnipresent on screen. Shifting seamlessly between a chilling anger and a playful energy, his performance as Tom leaves the audience feeling like we should be walking on eggshells.
Julian: An Ode to Queer Love
Carried by Nina Meurisse in the role of Fleur and Laurence Roothooft as Julian, the Belgian-Dutch drama beautifully translates the expectations the couple had for gay rights through their unusual project, as well as the hardships of navigating love and grief.
The Christophers: Soderbergh's Artistic Dialogue
Unlike Soderbergh’s previous film, 2025’s sexy spy thriller Black Bag, the director takes a more muted, intimate approach as he attempts to find the connection between art and relationships.
Seahorse: On Connections and Feeling Seen
Sometimes the past is too hard to let go and it keeps coming back for us. At the same time, SXSW 2026 Narrative Feature competitor Seahorse poses a question: Is the past holding us back or are we the ones incapable of letting go and moving forward?
Project Hail Mary: Full of Grace, Friendship, and Science
Directed by Christopher Miller and Phil Lord, with a formidable score by Daniel Pemberton and impeccable production design by Charlie Wood, Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary is brought to life with the purpose of making it a visual experience.
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo: Queerness in All Its Grandeur
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo is a reinvented Western, in which the sad and lonely cowboy is replaced with a vengeful teenage girl, and the luxuriant mountains with the scorching plains.
Wuthering Heights: Rewritten
Some had high hopes; Saltburn was generally well-received and a similar thriller would fit the gothic horror of Wuthering Heights, while others dreaded her campy style and worried she would miss the target in the interest of modernizing the story to fit her whims. Now that theaters are packed with curious viewers, the verdict is out: It’s bad.
No Other Choice: A Veteran’s Playground
No Other Choice is a plot that requires eccentricity, suspense, and a hint of melodrama that the actors organically delivered. They were shameless in bringing out the quirks of the story through their respective characters, resulting in this spectacle of a crazy film.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple: Hell is Empty
Between sweeping wide shots of rolling green hills to a close-up on creative and awe-inspiring wounds and practical effects makeup, The Bone Temple is truly a visual treat for nature and horror enthusiasts alike.
Avatar: Fire and Ash: A Spectacle Meant for the Cinema
Avatar is a franchise that brings cinema back to its origins. It is a spectacle. We sit in awe in our seats, captivated for over three hours by its technical prodigy.
Die My Love: Unfiltered Humanity
What does it take to finally make someone snap? To finally make yourself feel alive? Die My Love (2025), starring Jennifer Lawrence as Grace and Robert Pattinson as Jackson, is a strange slice of life film skewed sideways into an uncomfortably funny thriller.