The Night House might only be the latest horror film to supplant subtext with text and dread with loud sounds, but notable for being among the…
Wildland suffers for its underdeveloped characters and themes, but its sense of intimacy stands out in a genre often tilted only toward style. Watching Wildland, the…
Habit sounds like fun, should be fun, wants to be fun; it’s more like Hell. Bella Thorne plays a Los Angeles party girl who masquerades as…
Demonic suggests a few novel, fascinating twists to the horror template, and then runs away from them as fast as it can. In the six years…
The Last Matinee is a modern Giallo effort that fails to reimagine, evolve, or even properly understand the form. The use of movie theaters as a…
Raging Fire is fairly staid as a cop-film actioner, but it proves that Donnie Yen, even as he approaches 60, can still deliver. When credits roll…
Escape from Mogadishu is an utterly regressive film that exploits real-life tragedy and trades in offensive screen signifiers. Action movie maestro Ryoo Seung-wan’s latest film, Escape…
Naked Singularity is generic as a heist film and barely-conceived as science fiction, leaving almost nothing here to care about. Just about as unexciting as a…
John and the Hole mistakes ambiguity for depth at every opportunity, forgoing actual psychological probing in favor of shallow posturing. Tapped by Cannes for its theoretical…
Tailgate is a thriller in name only, mostly devoid of tension and entirely schematic. One wonders what exactly the point is of such a thoroughly incurious…
Outdated from its conception and only increasing its failures with each passing minute, Twist does Dickens seriously dirty. Twist, the latest adaptation of the Charles…
Masquerade fails to clear even the lowest bar of a home invasion flick, delivering a late-film jolt that is far too little, too late. Like many…
Settlers offers neither genre thrills nor any real interrogation of the material’s potentially rich subtext. Part sci-fi thriller, part western, part survivalist drama, Wyatt Rockefeller’s Settlers…
Mandibles is a profoundly audacious film, moronic and masterful in equal measure. Perhaps the most unbefitting title to arrive in the middle of a global pandemic,…
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions rides the same strengths of the original, resulting in a film that is a bit spare but still a feat of…
Die in a Gunfight isn’t the worst Romeo and Juliet adaptation on record, but it’s certainly not a good one. The last thing the film…
Meander is a dull and derivative dud that fails to deliver the requisite thrills or kills demanded of its genre. On a desolate stretch of road…
Pig isn’t the Nic Cage film you’re expecting — it’s better. It’s tough to recall a recent film — particularly outside the auteur context — that…
It’s nice to see Fox back in the horror saddle, but Till Death’s stronger elements too often fall victim to its thriller conventionality. Is it…