In Theaters and Digital

There are few places more naturally suited to a ghost story than an empty theater. The seats facing a darkened stage, the curtains hiding spaces we cannot quite see, dressing rooms filled with the residue of performers who have come and gone—it is a setting that barely needs  ...

There is something immediately appealing about a horror movie that understands Halloween as more than a date on the calendar. Ben Sottak’s Hallowarrior takes its end-of-the-world premise, throws it into the middle of the year’s greatest holiday, and then proceeds to have  ...

Child begins with a question that sounds almost too easy: how far would you go to save your dying son? Most parents would answer without hesitation—any distance, any cost, any sacrifice. Writer-director Cyrus Neshvad understands that the  ...

Nearly three decades after The Blair Witch Project helped permanently alter the language of low-budget horror, some of the people responsible for that film return to the found-footage format with The Influencer Project. Blair Witch co-creator Eduardo Sánchez and  ...

Twenty years ago, Facebook promised to bring the world closer together. Turns out, it was just bringing us closer to the edge of a cliff. With The Social Reckoning, writer-director Aaron Sorkin returns to the digital empire he  ...

Hospitals are fucking creepy. I don't care how much money they spend on soothing paint colors, cheerful artwork, or those little signs reminding everyone that healing happens here. Nobody wants to be in one. They smell like disinfectant, bad coffee,  ...

There is a point in Mutiny when you realize exactly what Jason Statham and director Jean-François Richet are serving up, and either you’re going to grin like an idiot or spend the rest of the movie complaining that you’ve seen all this shit before ...

There is a fine line between satire and self-indulgence, and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger doesn’t merely cross that line. It pole-vaults over it, breaks the pole over its knee, and spends the next two hours congratulating itself on the spectacle. What should ...

There is something inherently terrifying about childbirth, a violent biological miracle in which the human body stretches, tears, bleeds, and somehow produces life. Raymond Creamer’s Goody Goody understands this unpleasant truth  ...

What if all this strange activity in the skies isn’t new? What if humanity has been seeing the same damn things for thousands of years, only describing them with the language available at the time? That is the rabbit hole Clive Christopher happily  ...