KPop Demon Hunters
Dir. Chris Appelhans & Maggie Kang
KPop Demon Hunters is adorable. The supernatural element adds an interesting twist to the familiar band plot, and writer-directors Maggie…
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Dir. Rian Johnson
When released during the pandemic, Glass Onion was acclaimed, but not at the same level as its predecessor. This time,…
Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain
Dir. Kenji Nakamura
While based on the Mononoke series, which is in turn, a spin-off of Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales, it might seem…
Fancy Dance
Dir. Erica Tremblay
Before she captivated the film world with her performance in Scorcese’s crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon, Lily Gladstone…
Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees
Dir. Natasha Lyonne
We’re familiar with dick jokes from stand-up comedians, especially male stand-up, but Jacqueline Novak’s 90-minute show about the blow job…
Fingernails
Dir. Christos Nikou
In what is only his second feature, Greek director Christos Nikou crafts a singular universe that is orderly and enticing. The…
A Different Man
Dir. Aaron Schimberg
“Inner beauty is what counts” is a cliche many films have tried and failed to tackle, but A Different Man…
The Dead Don’t Hurt
Dir. Viggo Mortensen
Written, directed, and scored by Viggo Mortensen, The Dead Don’t Hurt is a visually stunning, emotionally potent, but still impressively…
We Grown Now
Dir. Minhal Baig
Places evoke certain emotions, but even the most rundown, cramped projects feel special when they’re home. We Grown Now is…
Perpetrator
Dir. Jennifer Reeder
There’s a degree of removal in Perpetrator which some viewers may find jarring: most visibly, in the performances, whose heightened…
Polite Society
Dir. Nida Manzoor
Kill Bill meets Bend It Like Beckham in this wild ride about a martial arts-obsessed British-Pakistani teenager who views her…
The Unknown Country
Dir. Morrisa Maltz
It’s hard not to watch The Unknown Country and think of Nomadland: along with similarities in their Terrence Malick-inspired visuals,…
Wild Wild Space
Dir. Ross Kauffman
Backed by hefty research, dramatized by great players, and made relevant by the current and future impact aerospace has on…
The Royal Hotel
Dir. Kitty Green
The Royal Hotel sees Hanna (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) resorting to take up a dire live-in job behind…
Problemista
Dir. Julio Torres
Some films struggle to balance style with substance, but Problemista isn’t one of them. It’s brandished with Torres’ unique brand…
How to Rob a Bank
Dir. Seth Porges & Stephen Robert Morse
With Netflix producing countless true crime documentaries, you’d be forgiven for dismissing How to Rob a Bank as usual, forgettable…
Elton John: Never Too Late
Dir. David Furnish & R.J. Cutler
Elton John’s latest concert film follows the same structure as most current music documentaries: it splices present-day footage of the…
The Starling Girl
Dir. Laurel Parmet
The agonizing tug of war between dogma and desire is sharply illustrated in writer-director Laurel Parmet’s feature debut, set inside…
Yellow Door: ’90s Lo-fi Film Club
Dir. Lee Hyuk-rae
Given a budget from Netflix to make a documentary on Korean film, some would have chosen instead to make one…
Caddo Lake
Dir. Celine Held & Logan George
Produced by M. Night Shyamalan, Caddo Lake isn’t the most shocking thriller out there. It starts slow, suffers from low-budget…
Janet Planet
Dir. Annie Baker
Many films have been made about that uniquely taut mother-daughter bond, but maybe none is as delicate as Janet Planet.…
Self Reliance
Dir. Jake Johnson
It’s kind of amazing how Johnson, who writes, directs, and stars in this feature, narrowly escapes narrative holes by being…
Turtles All the Way Down
Dir. Hannah Marks
Those familiar with John Green’s many book-to-movie adaptations (The Fault in Our Stars, Paper Towns) will recognize the author’s signature…
The Greatest Love Story Never Told
Dir. Jason B. Bergh
Jennifer Lopez believes that her latest album and its movie accompaniment, This Is Me…Now, are her magnum opus, so she…
John Early: Now More Than Ever
Dir. Emily Allan & Leah Hennessey
Comedy special John Early: Now More Than Ever is shot like a monumental concert documentary: it’s all nostalgic ‘70s cinematography,…
Orion and the Dark
Dir. Sean Charmatz
Going to sleep is something we do every day, though, when we were kids, it certainly wasn’t easy. With family-friendly…
Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda
Dir. Julian Smith
As host Hannah Gadsby explains at the beginning of this stand-up showcase, Netflix only really gave her and these other…
Destroy All Neighbors
Dir. Josh Forbes
It’s easy to classify Destroy All Neighbors as B-movie schlock; it unabashedly pays tribute to the low-budget comedy horror movies…
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Dir. Daniel Goldhaber
On the one hand, How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a tense thriller—an excellently set-up heist that makes you…
MoviePass, MovieCrash
Dir. Muta'Ali Muhammad & Muta’Ali
When Moviepass announced that it would allow you to watch at least one theater film a day for just $10/month,…
An Invisible Victim: The Eliza Samudio Case
Dir. Juliana Antunes
Invisible Victim may not be all that different from the plethora of true crime documentaries available on Netflix and other…
Leonor Will Never Die
Dir. Martika Ramirez Escobar
At times looking and sounding like a real Filipino action film from 50 years ago, while painstakingly edited to juggle…
