Palm Springs may fit the mold of an often-done sub-genre of science fiction, but it manages to tell its story smartly—without feeling like a tired rehash.

Along with providing an academic context to the content, the contributors offer personal anecdotes, too.

Almodóvar’s Matador reverses the era’s genre trends and demonizes instead the straight characters as venomous monsters…

The Raven is such a colossal cocktail of monstrosities!

Blackstone has a way of pulling the reader along for every one of the book’s roughly 170 pages—even through puddles of bile and other nasty bodily fluids.

The story never really jumps off the page, because the whole account reads too much like a term paper.

For the most part, Bottled is pretty well told. Ellis definitely knows her way around a word processor. She also has a keen awareness for mood and atmosphere.

If It Bleeds contains four stories that are wildly different from one another, and yet each in its own way perfectly exemplifies what makes Stephen King one of the greatest writers of all time.

Kolesnik crafts with a dramatist’s pen. Her words strike to the core, immediately, especially when it comes to holding a mirror up to the darkest parts of our fractured humanity.

This film… thrives on nostalgia and its effect on people.

Just when I thought Sriduangkaew couldn’t make things any queerer, she offers us the gift of arousing, lyrical fucking.

The message lands in this horrific context, once again proving that horror is a perfect landscape for expressing social unrest.

Give Me Liberty is an eccentric little comedy with plenty of barely contained haywire and a whole lot of heart.

Because nothing gets me in the yuletide spirit quite like a moody chiller about a cataclysmal family.

Ly utilizes an in-yer-face style of cinéma vérité that feels thoroughly appropriate for the substance of this narrative—it adds to the film’s sense of overdue urgency.

Retablo leaves a mark upon the audience.

Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy have established that they’re a directing team to watch out for.

The Film Independent Spirit Awards have recognized Mayfair with a Someone to Watch Award nomination, and it’s clear why.

Ainouz’s fabulous melodrama is about sisterhood and how that special bond can never be fully severed.

If Johnson hasn’t proven to you by the end that he’s a master craftsman… I’m frankly not sure what further evidence you need.