In the midst of an unprecedented global pandemic, many of us are grappling with worry and fear. Being forced to forgo social contact, we are maybe...

An eerily prescient expression of our current “sheltering in place” reality, Vivarium is a clever, deeply disturbing speculative fiction. Its...

The central metaphor of "zombie apocalypse" cinematic narratives is the "rising up" of beings signifying "The Other" and their aggressive urge to...

Blood on Her Name opens with a scene of intense immediacy. A young woman stands above a man’s corpse lying in a pool of blood on the concrete...

Harvey Weinstein’s name is never mentioned in The Assistant, Kitty Green’s narrative feature debut, but his presence permeates every frame. The...

There’s a lot to like in The Shed, the feature debut of writer-director Frank Sabatella, but there is also, well, just a lot here. Part...

The opening of Graham Swon’s debut feature, The World is Full of Secrets, is intriguing and odd: a shadowy background of flowery wallpaper with a...

Here’s your motivation: You’re lost! You’re angry, wandering through a hellscape of slasher flicks and torture porn and random demons that show...

Andrea Riseborough did some terrific work in 2018, but my pick for her finest role is the title character in Nancy, an impressive indie debut from...

This British film set on the island of Jersey is a stunning feature debut by Michael Pearce. Jessie Buckley plays Moll, a young woman with a history...

Like any good Gen Xer, I trace my love of horror movies to the made-for-TV movies of the 1970s. Inspired by cinematic blockbusters like Rosemary’s...

Arguably the first mainstream American film to portray contemporary occultism in depth, Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby — released 50 years...

In 1975, Peter Weir’s debut film Picnic at Hanging Rock put Australia’s burgeoning art cinema squarely on the map, on its way to becoming a cult...

In You Were Never Really Here, Lynne Ramsay continues to uphold her reputation for being an artist of uncompromising originality and skill. Despite...