[ The following essay contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Bloober Team’s recent remake of Konami’s Silent Hill 2 begins in...

Director Ataru Oikawa’s cinematic adaptation of Tomie uses the basic premise of manga artist Junji Ito’s identically titled source...

The first thing you need to know about The King and the Mockingbird  is that it is clearly the product of many disparate styles,...

[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Greek drama is all about inevitability . The classical tragic...

Béla Tarr’s Werckmeister Harmonies  is a musical of sorts. Do not, however, go in expecting any show-stopping song-and-dance routines;...

One of the great pleasures of being an insatiably voracious cinephile is venturing off the beaten path of "canonical" classics and...

I’ll preface this review with a confession: I am not a particularly huge fan of the original Toxic Avenger . Having only first watched it...

I made a huge mistake. I succumbed to peer pressure on social media and, in the process, became a victim of the dreaded Fear of Missing...

[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Kiyoshi Kurosawa is often described as a “J-horror” director, to...

Much like the legendary superhero around whom it revolves, the Menahem Golan-produced adaptation of Captain America  is a relic of a...

If you were to plot all self-starring music biopics on a spectrum, with A Hard Day’s Night  (shameless self-mythologizing) on one end and...

For my final screening of Japan Cuts 2025, I decided to go with the obligatory film about amateur filmmakers—a staple of the festival...

Promised Land  is an appropriate title for Masashi Iijima’s surprisingly mature directorial debut. It is, after all, a film about the...

The documentary has evolved in recent years; films like And Everything Is Going Fine , Tower , and (to a lesser degree) Witches of the...

[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning  opens with a lengthy montage...

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The Final Destination franchise is horror at its most primal. Although...

[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] As far as the art of adaptation goes, Thunderbolts* manages to...

[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] On paper, a cinematic adaptation of Sony’s Until Dawn franchise...

The Little Girl if Hanoi  is a work of North Vietnamese propaganda. Which isn’t a judgment of the film’s quality, but rather a neutral...

[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] William Friedkin’s The French Connection  ends with the...