Category: Independent Film
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Fjord Review: Cristian Mungiu Turns a Family Dispute Into a Moral Rorschach Test
In *Fjord*, Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker Cristian Mungiu turns a family’s child-rearing dispute into a provocative examination of faith, parental authority, and institutional bias. Starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve, this restrained, unsettling drama challenges audiences to question their own moral assumptions, asking where child protection ends and prejudice begins.
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“You Can See Everything” Review: Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim Turn the Camera on Elizabeth Holmes (and on Us)
In You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim turn the world of Elizabeth Holmes into a surreal maze of deception, performance, and manipulation. As Holmes prepares to serve her prison sentence, the documentary blurs the boundaries between truth and fiction, raising unsettling questions about power, authorship, and our own desire to believe that…
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Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother Review: Mahershala Ali’s Hitman Thriller on Faith and Fatherhood
In an era dominated by sequels, reboots and re-releases, Bassam Tariq’s Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother arrives as something rare: a dense, original swing. Mahershala Ali stars as Latif, a devout Muslim hitman thrown into single fatherhood when his wife suddenly dies, setting off a chaotic chase across Houston for his infant daughter’s survival.…
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If I Go Will They Miss Me Review: Myth, Memory, and a Father’s Absence
In Walter Thompson-Hernández’s lyrical Sundance drama, twelve-year-old Lil Ant turns his father’s absence into Greek mythology, casting him as Odysseus and then Poseidon, while his mother, Lozita, carries the harder truth. A review of the film’s performances, its dreamlike purple-and-blue cinematography, and its quiet argument that presence is not the same as consistency.
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Primetime (2026) Review: Justice as Spectacle
Lance Oppenheim’s narrative debut puts Chris Hansen and To Catch a Predator under a hallucinatory, darkly funny microscope. With Robert Pattinson as the man behind the famous line, Primetime asks where justice ends and spectacle begins, folding in entrapment, post-9/11 paranoia, and the ethics of turning a real sting into ratings. A fictional producer, a…
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Buddy Review: Inside Casper Kelly’s Bloody Takedown of ’90s Kids’ TV
Casper Kelly’s feature debut, Buddy, uses the sugary aesthetic of ’90s kids’ TV — think Barney & Friends by way of analog horror — to tell a much darker story about what happens to children on sets run by people who hold all the power. Behind the felt puppets and primary colors is a pointed,…
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It Ends Review: Alexander Ullom Turns Existential Dread Into Horror
Alexander Ullom’s “It Ends” turns existential dread into an unsettling portrait of post-pandemic Gen-Z anxiety. With four friends trapped on an endless road, this deceptively simple horror film asks the question that’s perhaps scarier than any monster: what happens when the panic wears off and you’re still not sure what comes next?
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The Invite and I Want Your Sex: Olivia Wilde’s Year of Wanting
Olivia Wilde is having one of the most interesting years of any actor in 2026 — not because of box office numbers, but because of range. In The Invite, which she also directs, Wilde plays a sexually starved wife whose marriage cracks open the night her upstairs neighbors come to dinner. In I Want Your…
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Boots Riley Is Back — and I Love Boosters Might Be His Best Film Yet
Nearly eight years after Sorry to Bother You, Boots Riley returns with a surrealist heist comedy that smuggles Marxist theory inside one of the most visually electric films of the year. Keke Palmer leads. Demi Moore villains. The fashion is immaculate. The politics are sharper.
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Backrooms Review: Kane Pixels Brings the Internet’s Most Unsettling Universe to the Big Screen
At just 20 years old, Kane Parsons — known online as Kane Pixels — has delivered one of the most anticipated horror films of 2026, and A24’s biggest opening weekend in the studio’s history. Backrooms, the feature film adaptation of Parsons’ viral YouTube series, arrives with the weight of enormous expectation and an internet fandom…