Steve Erickson
Stillz’s “Barrio Triste” transforms the dangers of life in Medellín into a haunting journey through cosmic horror, media distrust, and adolescent fear.
Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa transforms a revenge thriller into a chilling examination of guilt, conspiracy, and the violence that permeates modern life.
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s rigorously constructed follow-up to “No Other Land” uses testimony from Israeli military whistleblowers to expose the systems of surveillance, dehumanization, and moral evasion that shaped Israel’s war on Gaza.
A newly released 1977 collection documents the Cramps making the past feel dangerous again.
This strong 2026 lineup ranges from a colonial nightmare in the Kalahari to a Japanese ghost story and Carlos Conceição’s chilling vision of cosmetic obsession amid climate catastrophe.
The power of Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s film stems from its deep repugnance at an acceptance of the aesthetic and moral poverty of dictatorship.
A Cornish folk-horror reverie where sound and image eclipse story, evoking the erosion of community and the fragility of working-class life.
Steven Spielberg revisits extraterrestrial wonder with technical virtuosity, but his media-age fable drifts into sentimentality and soft-focus optimism.
Boots Riley fuses anti-capitalist critique with surrealist comedy, imagining revolt as both necessity and joy.
A fractured childhood remembered through a lens of distance and grief
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