Thriller

The Check In

By Alan Ng | March 2022

What do filmmakers do when stuck in a foreign country because they can’t travel due to a pandemic? Make a movie, of…

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What do filmmakers do when stuck in a foreign country because they can't travel due to a pandemic? Make a movie, of course. In The Check In, Nikhail...

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SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! Brace yourselves for a hurricane of revulsion with writer/director Beth de Araujo's gut-wrenching horror movie Soft and...

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SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! Antonia Campbell-Hughes makes her narrative feature-length debut with It Is In Us All. The dramatic thriller stars Cosmo...

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SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! With the rise of "content" and all that the expanded definition of the term now implies, it has never been easier for...

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The Death of Us reflects the COVID-19 era in both subject matter and style. Director Yonash Breneman's debut feature film is not only about the pandemic,...

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Ask most people what they did during their quarantine days, and their answers are likely to be not only similar but also similarly mundane:...

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Given that Fading Petals only has five, maybe six characters and three or four locations, it's easy to envision it as a play. However, don't let that deter...

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Hany Abu-Assad's bleak Huda's Salon attempts to work on multiple levels: an edge-of-your-seat thriller, a political treatise, and a study of female...

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A series of roadblocks face a black detective investigating a murder in Paulo Nascimento's thriller, Breathless (Sem Fôlego). No, this isn't the United...

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Director Paulo Nascimento's dark vision of tomorrow District 666 is set in 2042, twenty years into a deadly worldwide pandemic. To fight spiraling death...

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