Month: January 2026

  I Want Your Sex opens with a scene reminiscent of the classic noir Sunset Boulevard. We are introduced to Elliot (Cooper Hoffman) stumbling out of a luxurious mansion in lingerie with blood on his face. He sees the lifeless body of Erika (Olivia Wilde) floating in a pool and jumps in to try to save her. Elliot is arrested and questioned by the cops (Johnny Knoxville and Margaret Cho) and explains the story of…

  The simplicity of Beth de Araújo’s Josephine is the film’s biggest asset. The film follows 8-year-old Josephine (Mason Reeves), who, while on an early morning run with her father, accidentally gets separated from him and winds up witnessing a woman being attacked and raped. The movie focuses on Josephine after the event, the emotional toll on her and her family, and the push-and-pull advice she receives from her parents. Josephine is a movie about…

As of writing this review, it is the end of January. 2026 is still fresh, and we have a whole year of new and exciting movies still to come out. However, I firmly believe that there will not be a more important movie in 2026 than Poh Si Teng’s American Doctor. This shocking, masterfully made documentary drops us right in the middle of the Palestinian-Israeli war and shows us the horrors of what is going…

  Petra Biondian Volpe’s Frank & Louis is one of the most disappointing movies I’ve seen at the Sundance Film Festival because of its unoriginality. The film takes place in a prison and follows Frank (Kingsley Ben-Adir), a man in jail for life for a murder her committed when he was younger. He gets a job caring for aging inmates with Alzheimer’s and dementia. Frank is tasked with looking after Louis (Rob Morgan), who used…

  The Huntress is a brutal and surprisingly inspirational tale about standing up to injustice when all hope seems lost. Writer/director Suzanne Andrews Correa takes us deep into the darkness of Juarez, Mexico to show us how one woman took a stand against violence in her community. Set over the course of a stressful day, The Huntress opens with a woman shooting a bus driver in cold blood in front of several people. This woman…

  Fair warning before diving into this review: as long as it was competently made, I was going to like The Disciple, Joana Natasegara’s documentary about the rap group Wu-Tang Clan and their mysterious and infamous 2015 album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. I love the Wu-Tang Clan. Their debut album, Enter the 36 Chambers, is one of my favorite albums ever, and any time I get to learn more about the group that…

  I was not as over-the-moon for Danny Boyle’s 2025 28 Years Later as other critics, but there were elements that I did like. I liked Ralph Fiennes as a quietly deranged doctor who has built a shrine of bones to those who have perished in this apocalyptic zombie hellscape. I liked the idea of a seemingly indestructible zombie named Samson who terrified zombies as much as humans. I like the film’s grim tone, bold…