Reel Reviews | Love Hurts
Ke Huy Quan trades Oscars for open houses in Love Hurts, a hitman-turned-realtor action comedy that aims for Guy Ritchie swagger but lands in straight-to-streaming territory.
Reel Reviews | How to Build a Library (Sundance ’25)
Two women. One historic library. And a mission to rewrite the story of a nation.
Reel Reviews | Speak. (Sundance ’25)
The pressure is real, the stakes are high, and the voices are powerful — but does this behind-the-scenes look at the world’s top high school orators deliver the impact it promises?
Reel Reviews | Omaha (Sundance ’25)
A grieving father takes his kids on a cross-country road trip in Cole Webley’s somber and unsettling debut, Omaha — a quiet meditation on loss, love, and the lengths we go to hold on when everything is falling apart.
Reel Reviews | Atropia (Sundance ’25)
Atropia is a sharp and surreal war satire about a struggling actress who falls for a soldier during a simulated conflict on a U.S. military base.
Reel Reviews | Luz (Sundance ’25)
Luz weaves a tale of fractured families across Paris and Chongqing that converge in a surreal VR realm. While visually rich and thematically ambitious, the film struggles to ground its emotional core.
Reel Reviews | Move Ya Body: The Birth of House (Sundance ’25)
Move Ya Body: The Birth of House is Elegance Bratton’s electrifying deep dive into the Black, queer roots of a global movement.
Reel Reviews | Star Trek: Section 31
Michelle Yeoh returns to the shadows of Starfleet in Star Trek: Section 31, but this long-awaited spin-off feels more like a missed mission than a masterstroke.