Pearl is an empty exercise in style masquerading as a character study.
Once all hell breaks loose in X, the promise of a genre deconstruction all but evaporates.
The film conveys a sense of pastiche unpredictably giving way to a raw and primordially intimate emotional realm.
Ti West’s methodical austerity yields in this film the most powerful passages of his career.
Ti West has bitten off more of a premise than his classically modest barebones approach to horror movies can presently chew.
This Blu-ray disc’s disappointing sound mix is still not enough to detract from the film’s gleeful mumblecore-assaulting pleasures.
The Police Officer’s Wife had easily the most walkouts of any film I saw at the festival.
You’re Next brazenly merges the home-invasion thriller with the dysfunctional family dramedy.
The horror anthology’s finest entries convey how real horror comes in more than shades of red, and how it lives inside us all.
V/H/S is a collection of tales of gender warfare that are scattershot, tasteless, and occasionally quite frightening.
V/H/S exudes, sometimes extraordinarily, a neophyte’s sense of courage and cluelessness.
From L.A. to Vegas to Thailand, the stops on our list boast some very memorable hotels, which vary in their abilities to accommodate, relax, and terrify.
A beautiful transfer by Dark Sky Films of one of the best horror films of the last few years.
Watching V/H/S is a gruesome and twisted blast.
There’s something both odd and reassuring that the most hyped young horror director in America today is a full-blown classicist.
Ti West depicts a world continuously impinged on by the past, a realm we can admire but never actually enter.
Shut Up and Play the Hits dances around the fact that LCD Soundsytem was essentially a solo act.
If you’re not on Swanberg’s side, you’ll find yourself struggling with all of this.
Silver Bullets ranks as Joe Swanberg’s most intimate effort to date.
A film like this that wears its homages proudly—and wears them this well—is something to be celebrated.