Backrooms
By Guillermo Lopez Meza May 28, 2026
Because of its overwhelming visual and sensory labyrinth, Backrooms is a fortunate marriage of an attractive concept and compelling execution.
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Tuner
By Ben Wasserman May 21, 2026
Though Tuner doesn’t reinvent the wheel (or in this case, the piano), it makes the most of a very tight script with excellent performances, strong pacing, and a fun balance of genre tones.
Been Here Stay Here
By Jeffery Berg May 15, 2026
Tangier Island, located in the Chesapeake Bay, has a population of about 400 people and is only two and a half miles long and roughly a mile wide. And it’s disappearing.
The Last One for the Road
By Caroline Ely April 30, 2026
A woozy road movie, a wistful sketch of an Italy fallen from grace, and a wry comedy.
Amrum
By Kevin Filipski April 16, 2026
Actor Jasper Billerbeck plays one of the most memorably multidimensional young wartime protagonists since The Tin Drum and Empire of the Sun.
Mother Mary
By Guillermo Lopez Meza
David Lowery’s new movie is, in many ways, unclassifiable, flirting with different genres and featuring a mise-en-scène both restrained and grandiose at once.
Blue Heron
By Caroline Ely
The powerful first part of Sophy Romvari’s semi-autobiographical story reveals a frightening family struggle through the eyes of a young girl.
The Christophers
By Jeffery Berg April 9, 2026
There’s a verbose richness to Ed Solomon’s text and Steven Soderbergh’s cool visual flair that works wonderfully together here.
Reunion
By Kevin Filipski April 3, 2026
Rarely seen since the early 1990s, this haunting memory piece, written by Harold Pinter and directed by Jerry Schatzberg, returns to the screen.