Aster’s terrible, scaly wings have finally pierced through the crust of his creative cocoon. What’s emerged is a creature blindly cruel, excruciatingly funny, and, as you might have guessed, deeply disturbed. A beast of chaos, unimaginable in shape, Lovecraftian in nature, and at last, fully formed.

While his previous feature, Beau Is Afraid, experimented with existing beyond category, Eddington does so with evil confidence. This is not truly a COVID story, so don’t worry. Instead, it’s a film that uses…

Decades after decadent ’90s gothic bouquets like Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow and Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula, Robert Eggers emerges from the shadows with his own cinematic phantasmagoria with Nosferatu, and just when we were craving it the most.

Lily-Rose Depp shines brightest here, delivering a full-bodied performance like some grotesque ballerina as she carries the film from start to finish. A role that could have so easily fallen into waifish stereotype instead outshines a room full of greats.

While this…

If, in 2025, you’re going to exploit the AIDS epidemic, you had better have a compelling reason. Or, at the very least, something of value to say, even if it’s been said before. But to approach such a well-worn and devastating subject with virtually no respect or consideration for queer or Black experiences is to begin on an already misguided and ethically precarious footing.

While the AIDS crisis unquestionably impacted communities of intravenous drug s, Alpha’s near-total erasure of queer…

Dangerous Animals marks the splashy and brutal return of Australian horror master Sean Byrne, the man filmmaker behind The Loved Ones, an unmissable cult classic. And nearly a decade after the hardcore self-seriousness of his sophomore effort The Devil’s Candy, Byrne resurfaces with his most mainstream and viscerally entertaining film yet. This time he serves fish by way of a nasty, sun-drenched thriller that weaponizes genre familiarity with feral confidence. It may not rack up the highest body count, but what…