5
MDMA Review
It’s a mess but a strangely watchable one, and I honestly think that’s good enough for a recommendation.
Posted by: Mynt Marsellus
5
6.5
MANDY Review
This ’80s-set thriller is a chaotic, drug-fuelled, heavy metal, balls-to-the-wall extravaganza of violence and carnage.
Posted by: Adam Patterson
8
COLD WATER Criterion Blu-ray Review
Cold Water is an absorbing, pensive look at what such desires feel like on the inside, with its handheld close-ups on faces and careful observance at objects and structures, as if to seek answers from everything in equal measure.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
8
Tiff 2018: KILLING Review
With his latest, maverick actor/director Shinya Tsukamoto continues his later career's exploration of more traditional genre forms examined under his iconoclast perspective with the condensed and eclectic samurai drama Killing.
Posted by: Chris Luciantonio
9
DEEP RED Arrow Blu-ray Review
Dario Argento’s Deep Red stands as not only one of the director’s best pieces of work but marks the zenith of the giallo subgenre, a film to which all other gialli should be compared.
Posted by: Adam Patterson
6
THE PREDATOR Review
Like the super predator, what we’re left with is an 11-foot hybrid monster that probably shouldn’t have attempted this evolution.
Posted by: Adam Patterson
5
THE NUN Review
Nothing that’s built around the Nun’s haunting glare fully ignites the nightmare fuel inherent in the image.
Posted by: Blake Crane
5.5
COLD SKIN Review
Playing out more like a gender-swapped version of The Shape of Water than the Lovecraftian horror it wants to be, Xavier Gens’ latest is a visually pleasing, but ultimately empty, creature feature that, while entertaining at times, fails to evoke the emotional resonance it sets out to achieve.
Posted by: Adam Patterson
7
HEREDITARY Blu-ray Review
Sadly, the Blu-ray release for Hereditary is a bit lacking, containing only a few bonus supplements, although what’s here is good.
Posted by: Adam Patterson
6.5
LET THE CORPSES TAN Review
Let the Corpses Tan proves itself trapped between its acid-western origin point and its generic shoot-em-up plot structure, unable to artistically rectify the two poles of its superficial identity.
Posted by: Chris Luciantonio
5.5
OPERATION FINALE Review
Operation Finale is the historical film at its most safely crafted, even as individual production elements, such as Alexandre Desplat’s pushy score – heavy on everything from marimbas to choirs – suggest departures from a cookie-cutter approach that aren’t reflected onscreen.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
6
SHADOWBUILDER Blu-ray Review
There’s a special kind of cheesiness to ’90s horror, and Shadowbuilder is a prime example.
Posted by: Adam Patterson
7.5
THE CAT O’ NINE TAILS Blu-ray Review
While not one of Argento’s strongest offerings, The Cat O’ Nine Tails is still a solid piece of early giallo cinema and Arrow has put its trademarked effort and care into this new Blu-ray edition.
Posted by: Adam Patterson
7
INVENTING TOMORROW Review
With what could have been a rather boring subject, considering so much of it was scientific jargon, Nix was able to breathe life into the students’ projects and deliver a compelling, engrossing picture from their teenage perspectives.
Posted by: Mary Patterson
8
SEARCHING Review
Searching provides an experience that colors far outside the constraints of digital boxes, going far beyond a simple visual gimmick.
Posted by: Blake Crane
8
THE WILD BOYS Review
It’s the kind of enigmatic art that contains multitudes but ultimately speaks for itself.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
