Director Michelle Garza Cervera deftly examines motherhood and identity while creating a solid horror flick that is grounded and punctuated with moments of hallucinatory terror.

The kind of playful film that pays direct homage to a certain type of cinema without revealing too much about its influences, though clearly inspired by What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

An elevated horror movie that’s also a burning romance, enhanced by the charisma and beauty of its stars.

A psychological horror film not for the faint of heart.

A horror film that fully embraces its fairy-tale roots (stories of a boogeyman who devours children) and goes to some wild and grotesque extremes.

Candy-colored and stylized and often surreal as it is, the provocative Medusa contains a lot that feels very relevant right now.

Saying that this is Peter Strickland’s most accessible film to date, which it is, in no way means that it is accessible.

Don’t believe the hype. If audiences flee to the exits, it is most likely for the airless, glum atmosphere and the murky, metaphorical screenplay rather than the gore.

Childhood is a time when boundaries are set and tested. As such, the line between kindness and cruelty can be especially hazy. René Clément’s Forbidden Games (1952) dramatizes two children’s fascination with death, which leads them to kill an animal; Richard Hughes’s brilliant novel A High Wind in Jamaica (1929) views a group of children […]