Paradise Hills
Alice Waddington's directorial debut and feministic science-fiction mystery, Paradise Hills, is one covered in societal and gender politics wrapped around a plot that is something in the middle of Lost meets The Stepford Wives.
Black Christmas
A disappointing and lifeless entity that has a profound and engaging conversation on socially conscious feminism and rape culture but unfortunately underwhelms the film’s main attraction of spills and chills
Alien - 40th Anniversary
There are very few movies in cinematic history that can claim their significant position in all of the genres and style of filmmaking that it takes part in. Ridley Scott's 1979 seminal classic Alien is one of them
Animals
An enlightening, profoundly honest and wonderfully entertaining story about growing up in the intensity of expectation and gender politics with a heartwarming and dynamic twist
Gone with the Wind - 80th Anniversary
Gone With The Wind is beautiful, melodious, heartbreaking and, all things considered, one of the best of all time. While simultaneously being a tone-deaf and racially poisonous
Everybody's Everything
Everybody's Everything does little to educate, engage or even discuss the trials and tribulations of Lil Peep
6 Underground
Bay is having a complete blast disregarding all human life, delivering bloody insanity and creating a spectacle of carnage filled to the brim with vulgarity
Werewolf (Wilkolak)
Adrian Panek's Wilkołak — or known to Western audiences as Werewolf — is a dark, gruesome and compelling horror
Jumanji: The Next Level
What results is a serviceable and moderately entertaining blockbuster supplemented by hilarious performances and likeable characters that elevate a by-the-numbers adventure plot
Judy and Punch
Judy & Punch is a gruesome, haunting and unsettling narrative that surrounds the fabled tale of the infamous puppeteer show with rivetting —albeit traumatising — results
Marriage Story
It is not often that a film comes along that is so achingly authentic, so emotionally moving, so rich in character that it feels less like a film and more like a snapshot of reality
Parasite (Gisaengchung)
Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a brilliant and insightful commentary on class and modern family dynamics; it’s a modern masterpiece
Waves
Trey Edward Shults’s Waves does not know what kind of film it wants to be; in fact, it tries to be two movies in one but definitively fails
The Captain
Lau's film milks every second of the reported thirty-five-minute terrifying incident into a one-hundred-and-fifty-minute adventure film
Dark Waters
Dark Waters stars a doughy Mark Ruffalo as Bilott in a performance so uninspired that one can almost tangibly feel his disinterest in part
The Two Popes
The Two Popes is a beautifully crafted film exploring the changing politics of the Catholic Church while able to refrain from preaching the Christian faith
The Lighthouse
Even with tremendous visuals and performances, the end result of The Lighthouse, unfortunately, still remains a stepdown for Eggers, who provides something here that fails to dig deep or fully comprehend its own definition
Blue Story
Onwubolu details a gritty and captivatingly authentic underworld of real-life hoodlum and the tragedy that goes with it
Let It Snow
One of the most pleasant surprises in NETFLIX’s dishearteningly bad Christmas movie stocking this year is Let It Snow
Motherless Brooklyn
Caught beautifully by the eye of Dick Pope and editor Joe Klotz, who together with Norton have remarkably curated an ideal and long-forgotten film from the 1970s