An exciting and suitably sensuous detective story, where the uncomfortable feeling of the decreasing number of suspects is balanced by the satisfaction of knowing that every false lead has a grain of truth in it. But then there is also that titular Easttown, and with it a social drama full of unappealing, yet humanly…

Will & Harper felt like Will Ferrell and his longtime friend Harper Steele, who helped launch his career in American comedy, decided to hit the road to process Harper's transition. The best part? You’re just watching two friends hang out. It’s refreshingly natural, set against the backdrop of a rarely-seen slice…

A Nearly Normal Family is a solid Scandinavian family drama with a mysterious atmosphere that lingers throughout the six-episode series. The problem is, it kind of drifts along without much happening—you’re left anticipating more but not really getting it. Honestly, if it had been condensed into a single, under-two…

I went into The Thaw expecting a solid Polish crime series, and on a technical level, that’s pretty much what I got. The setting in Szczecin and its moody surroundings really nails the vibe for a crime story like this. But over the course of six episodes, I just couldn’t warm up to a single character—especially the…

Ticket to Paradise is exactly what you'd expect—a totally laid-back film that's neither groundbreaking nor laugh-out-loud funny. But George and Julia know how to bring a cozy vibe to your living room, and they deliver that in spades here.

An exciting and suitably sensuous detective story, where the uncomfortable feeling of the decreasing number of suspects is balanced by the satisfaction of knowing that every false lead has a grain of truth in it. But then there is also that titular Easttown, and with it a social drama full of unappealing, yet humanly…

A horror/zombie/post-apocalyptic survival flick in which the most striking (as well as rather insipid and dull) motifs are sadness for a deceased partner and taking care of a cat. The second, more action-oriented half makes a better impression than the slowly unfolding first half, which looks very cheap and relies…

Lovers of brutal gore splatter flicks will surely enjoy the bloody, darkly humorous orgies, but all of the film’s other elements are rather weak and Terrifier 3 doesn’t work well as a whole. I will overlook the utter lack of a story, the incoherence of the narrative and the seemingly random attempts to add depth to…

A slightly above-average old-school horror comedy that’s enticing at the beginning due to its brisk narrative and nimble editing, but then, in a story about a parasitic mass engulfing a small American town, it focuses too much on the annoyingly affected storyline about a teacher who discovers that one of his students…

Directed with focus and economy, Un cuento de pescadores is a powerfully atmospheric, visually impressive, well-acted and slow-burning mix of concurrently told stories set in a single impoverished village by a lake shrouded in terrifying legends. The volatile narrative draws from original fishermen’s tales and strange…