Liz Sargent’s film won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: US Dramatic. Anna Sargent, Victor Slezak, Ali Ahn, Shane Harper, and Marceline Hugot star.
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has started its 2026 edition. And even though the festival slants towards arthouse as always, there are plenty of genre films to enjoy as well. Case in point: Paul Urkijo Alijo’s Gaua a.k.a. The Night, which is an example of European folk horror at its finest. It is Alijo third feature film, and like the previous two (Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil and Irati) it is based on myths from the North-West of Spain, the Basque country. In The Night, we see Kattalin, a young woman, running into the woods after trying to poison her husband. According to myth, you shouldn’t venture in the woods after dark. It doesn’t take long for Kattalin to find out why: some… thing…
Michelle Torian, Luke Barnett, and Barbara Crampton star in writer/director Noam Kroll’s unsettling, slow-burn psychological drama.
Plus: Aaron Silverstein’s ‘The Infinite Husk,’ Alexander Skarsgard in ‘Pillion,’ Olivia Colman and John Lithgow in ‘Jimpa.’
As our own Ryland Aldrich noted in his wonderful essay, Ryland’s Musings From Two Decades of Sundance, the Sundance Film Festival celebrated its final edition in Park City, Utah, with a bang — and with an announcement about their annual awards. Next year, it will be a whole new festival in Boulder, Colorado. But first, there are the many films that debuted in the past few days. Our critics saw as many films as possible, and reviewed as many as possible. Here’s our evergreen guide to what they saw and reviewed, as of February 2, 2026. We will update this post as additional reviews arrive this week. Reviews by Mel Valentin JOSEPHINE, Deeply Moving, Powerful Character Study THE MUSICAL Brings the Comedy and the Cringe…
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The Godfather of the Dead would have celebrated their 86th birthday this Wednesday. Their daughter Tina leads a special celebration on Shudder in their absence.
Not so long ago, it was really not very fun to watch someone else play a video game. Whether it was your sibling, your cousin or your pal, the pained cries of “Mom says it’s my turn on the Xbox” would fall on deaf ears. But in our lifetimes, we’ve seen a shift. Suddenly, sitting back and letting someone else do the heavy lifting with a controller has become loved by millions, especially when the ones doing it are wacky, amiable and tireless internet personalities on the edge of an amusing nervous breakdown. At the top of the pile is Mark Fischbach, or Markiplier to his 38.2 million subscribers, whose love for vidya of all kinds has led him to unprecedented success, being the first…
The Canadian theatrical release for Adam MacDonald’s zombie thriller has been revealed.
The German actor reflects on the risks of inhabiting an over-mythologised literary figure, the freedoms and uncertainties of a fragmented docu-fiction form, and how performance emerges when authorship, history, and interpretation remain deliberately unresolved.
Moshe Rosenthal’s second feature probes a fractured father-son relationship set against the turbulent years of the AIDS crisis.