Justine Smith

In his feature debut, director Parker Finn builds on themes and imagery from his award-winning short Laura Hasn’t Slept.

Writer-director Scott Friend spoke with us about applying genre cinema to a truly painful and all too real topic.

An almost impressively terrible twist completely derails this high-concept thriller.

“Willingly or not, director Andrew Dominik aligns himself with Monroe’s many abusers and detractors in a film that fails to say much of anything.”

Alice Diop’s outstanding fiction feature debut, the unforgiving Icelandic landscape as more than a backdrop and a donkey road-trip movie.

Director Ti West has fun with this prequel to his porno-chic slasher throwback X.

“While the movie is somewhat sanitized and is emblematic of most estate films, it aims for the stars when it comes to spectacle, capturing the ecstasy of Bowie’s creative process with verve and extravagance.”

“Director Gina Prince-Bythewood captures what makes an action sequence great, integrating character and interpersonal relationships through every fight scene. From early montage training sequences to epic battles, the film stands against any modern epic.”