Nightmare Alley (1947)
⭐⭐⭐⭐½ (4½ stars out of 5) Nightmare Alley (1947) Directed by Edmund Goulding Not the best or the most elegantly complex of the post-war American noirs...
Nope (2022)
⭐⭐⭐½ (3½ stars out of 5) Nope (2022) Directed by Jordan Peele Nope’s wayward, sometimes even whimsical, dramatic architecture never reaches the complexity of its concepts,...
Orphan: First Kill (2022)
⭐⭐⭐ (3 stars out of 5) Orphan: First Kill (2022) Directed by William Brent Bell This crazy prequel does not exactly travel to the demented origins...
Orphan (2009)
⭐⭐½ (2½ stars out of 5) Orphan (2009) Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra ”Psychopathic kids” or ”diabolical kids” have been present in fictional stories since memorable times,...
Swamp Water (1941)
⭐⭐½ (2½ stars out of 5) Swamp Water (1941) Directed by Jean Renoir You can almost taste the discomfort and restraint that Jean Renoir’s immeasurable talent...
The Black Phone (2021)
⭐⭐½ (2½ stars out of 5) The Black Phone (2021) Directed by Scott Derrickson The writing is tremulous and its transposition to the screen is timidly...
The Ladykillers (1955)
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5 stars out of 5) The Ladykillers (1955) Directed by Alexander Mackendrick If there is an instructional manual on how dry, culturally significant British humor...
Dark Glasses (2022)
⭐⭐⭐ (3 stars out of 5) Dark Glasses (2022) Directed by Dario Argento Cheap, juicy and fun. Dario Argento’s return to film directing after a long...
Men (2022)
⭐⭐½ (2½ stars out of 5) Men (2022) Directed by Alex Garland As inconclusive as its truisms are, the turgid allegorical integrity is lost in its...
Hatching (2022)
⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4 stars out of 5) Hatching (2022) Directed by Hanna Bergholm We cannot always succumb to the assumption that every coming-of-age horror film is a...