Recent Reviews
These are our latest reviews of movies at theaters, at the art house, or at festivals.
Clayface
**1/22026, James Watkins
The problem is Clayface doesn’t maintain a realistic, grounded world.
Loaded with ambition, Clayface still melts under basic laziness.
Wicker
***2026, Alex Huston Fischer, and Eleanor Wilson
It’s a movie that packs a whole lot of heart for its lead characters.
Wicker is ludicrous. By design.
It’s been quite the year for high-concept, high-quirk movies. Digger stands at the top of the list. By far. (Digger Nation unite!) But there are others. Rather like One Night Only, Wicker sounds like a really bad, disagreeable idea.
You Can See Everything
***1/22026, Lance Oppenheim, and Nathan Fielder
It’s almost like watching two movies in one.
Sure. You Can See Everything, but you should trust nothing.
Misty Green leaves the audience holding the bag.
Working the story behind the Facebook Files like an entertaining spy thriller, Aaron Sorkin creates a movie worth sharing.
Verity the movie is every bit as catatonic as Verity the character.
Digger
****2026, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu
The first third of the movie generates quite a bit of butt fidgeting.
Frustrating. Annoying. Colorful. Wild. Deep. Invigorating. Digger is swing-for-the-fences filmmaking that – after a couple strikes – smacks an ultra-rare in-the-park grand slam.
Forgotten Island
***1/22026, Joel Crawford, and Januel P. Mercado
It’s the kind of experience that becomes more breathtaking in retrospect
Forgotten Island is a breathless ride through a busy landscape of history, ideas and emotions.
In a twist on all the man’s best friend tropes, Heart of the Beast turns into a full-on tribute to the literal dogs of war.
Primetime is a morally compromised telling of Chris Hansen’s ethically challenging endeavor to get sexual predators off the streets.
Resident Evil (2026)
***1/22026, Zach Cregger
Is it wrong to call a gory, bloody horror movie delightful?
Zach Cregger’s cracked the horror code with this surprisingly effective retooling of the Resident Evil video games.
Adam Wingard’s Onslaught is a messy, violent exorcism of movie demons, but it’s also a muddled headscratcher.
The End of Oak Street
***2026, David Robert Mitchell
While the setup is dicey, the execution makes for a late-summer blast at the movies.
The real fun isn’t even in the story or the characters.
The opening minutes of The End of Oak Street are classic ’80s movies nostalgia. They’re happier times, friendlier times. Neighbors gather for a pleasant block party of lawn games and bar-b-ques. Kids do the unthinkable: they play with their friends outside and go for bike rides around the ’hood.
One Night Only
***2026, Will Gluck
One Night Only rather magically turns into one of the summer’s most pleasant surprises.
As horrible as its premise sounds, One Night Only rather magically turns into one of the summer’s most pleasant surprises.
This undercooked tale of a self-made asshole is missing some key ingredients needed for a well-done movie.
