A scathing horror-satire and a gritty eastern European crime drama
Chicago International Film Festival 2016: Part Two
Fantastic Fest 2016: Day Eight
A horror film from Laos, a race riot comedy from Australia, and more
Kill Me Three Times
A derivative dark, violent comedy that mostly works thanks to Simon Pegg.
Maps to the Stars
David Cronenberg's haunted Hollywood
Frank
A sensitive yet unflinching examination of the relationship between artistry and anxiety
Calvary
A remarkable and beautiful meditation on the subject of death, that begins with one of the most striking lines in cinema history.
The Double
A film obsessed with artifice and content, whose words tell one story and its accent another.
Rubber
An unexpectedly philosophical film, like a verbal game of "what if?" played by a pair of stoned college students in a dorm room.
Retro Review: The Cars that Ate Paris
Described as a "horror-comedy" but neither scary nor funny, it's more of a relic from a distant place (Australia) and far-off time (the 1970s).
Cheap Thrills
A rich couple offers a family man and a petty criminal increasingly large amounts of money to perform increasingly dangerous acts. But their loss is our gain: Cheap Thrills is as funny as it is cynical and vicious.
