BIRDEATER is tension incarnate, with a tasty twist
by Rachel Shatto, staff writer
In Birdeater, masculinity is both a weapon and a prison—and potentially a lethal vulnerability.
Best of 2024: Rachel Shatto's Top 10 movies
by Rachel Shatto, Staff Writer
Here are the 10 films that truly were (to stretch out the metaphor just a little more) this year’s diamonds.
PERSONA struggles to find an identity despite its strong opening
by Rachel Shatto, Staff Writer
Persona ultimately lacks the emotional heft or the kind of mind-bending resolution that would give the film the kind of payoff the set up teases—and requires—to really see it rank alongside similar films like Saw or Cube.
THE LINE highlights the dangers of power and privilege but pulls its punch
by Rachel Shatto, Staff Writer
Is there something inherently sinister about fraternities?
FALLING STARS twists the witch myth and casts an atmospheric spell
by Rachel Shatto, Staff Writer
As our collective sense of fear and dread increasingly takes on an existential hue, folk horror feels ever more relevant in the way that it puts its subjects at the mercy of nature and larger forces far beyond our understanding.
THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT is a mind-bending temporal thriller that’s well worth your time
by Rachel Shatto, Staff Writer
In Things Will Be Different, writer/director Michael Felker makes his feature debut with this twisty tale of time travel and sibling conflict that immediately placed him on my radar as an emerging talent and storyteller.
BOOGER digs deep and finds a oddly moving, gross-out winner
by Rachel Shatto, Staff Writer
Booger is grotesque, visceral, occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, but, above all, it’s purposeful.
CONSUMED is a monster movie with not quite enough bite
by Rachel Shatto, Staff Writer
Consumed interrogates the fragility of the human body when facing down attacks coming from both external (a skin-stealing monster) and internal (corruption of body through disease).