Spotlight

Black Phone 2

by Alonso Duralde | Oct 16, 2025 | Spotlight | 0 |

Horror sequel feels fresh and exciting before giving way to tired tropes, turning Ethan Hawke’s chilling villain into a copy of a copy of Freddy Krueger.

Featured

Taylor Swift: The Release Party of a Showgirl

by Alonso Duralde | Oct 4, 2025 | Featured | 0

It’s a glorified press kit/listening party for Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album, designed to bring her faithful fans back to the multiplex.

The Smashing Machine

by Alonso Duralde | Oct 3, 2025 | Featured | 0
San Sebastian 2025: The Verdict

by The Film Verdict | Sep 27, 2025 | Featured, Festivals, San Sebastian 2025 | 0
San Sebastian 2025: The Awards

by The Film Verdict | Sep 27, 2025 | Featured, Festivals, San Sebastian 2025 | 0

Busan 2025

Amid widespread concern over the health of the Korean film industry, the Busan International Film Festival celebrated its 30th edition hosting domestic films – and audiences – marked by their variety and vitality.

Malika

by Oris Aigbokhaevbolo | Sep 26, 2025
Busan 2025: The Awards

by The Film Verdict | Sep 26, 2025
Seven O’Clock Breakfast Club for the Brokenhearted

by Clarence Tsui | Sep 24, 2025
Kok Kok Kokoook

by Clarence Tsui | Sep 24, 2025

Verdict Shorts

The Sleeping Beauty

by Ben Nicholson | Sep 13, 2025

Mattie Do’s The Sleeping Beauty is a beguiling fairy tale of accursed love that blends fantasy and horror, born of traditional Laotian folklore.

The Boy with White Skin

by Ben Nicholson | Sep 12, 2025
Mouse

by Ben Nicholson | Sep 11, 2025
perfectly a strangeness

by Ben Nicholson | Sep 10, 2025
Dammen

by Ben Nicholson | Sep 9, 2025

VENICE 2025

The Stranger

by Stephen Dalton | Sep 19, 2025

François Ozon gives much-loved Albert Camus novel 'L'Étranger' a chic retro-modernist polish in this sumptuously shot adaptation of a French literary classic.