Alex Saveliev

Sirāt

By Alex Saveliev | February 2026

Just when you thought that you’ve seen it all, that cinema has bombarded you into submission with its predictable story lines, flat…

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Just when you thought that you’ve seen it all, that cinema has bombarded you into submission with its predictable story lines, flat VFX, and pandering...

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The Safdie brothers' meteoric rise in Hollywood after just a handful of films came to an abrupt halt when Josh and Benny decided to go their separate ways....

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The perils of adolescence are not exactly a new cinematic subject, but writer-director Charlie Polinger's dark drama The Plague is so searing, its cast of...

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Not to be confused with Na Hong-jin’s South Korean horror masterpiece, Pedro Martín-Calero’s The Wailing is an entirely different beast. Split into...

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Writer-director Angus MacLachlan strips things down to their essence in his low-key Southern-fried drama, A Little Prayer. Gone are the histrionics, the...

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"It's so beautiful," was my 7-year-old daughter's teary-eyed sentiment regarding the finale of Alexander Woo and co-director Erik Benson’s lovely...

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Sentimentality. Bombast. Larger-than-life performances. A ridiculously protracted narrative. Adhering to familiar tropes. There's a time and place for...

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Based on a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, writer-director Adrian Langley's The Oval Portrait will appease fans of the author as well as aficionados of...

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You never know what to expect from filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos. The prolific Greek auteur has experimented with nearly every genre, from period comedy (The...

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To make things clear: co-writer/director Samuel Van Grinsven's sophomore feature, Went Up the Hill, is not a horror retelling of the Mother Goose nursery...

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