Sugar Season 2 Review: A Noir With a Telescope It Barely Uses
Sugar Season 2 picks up a question Season 1 detonated and then declines to answer with any real conviction. The...
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A psychiatrist tearing up his notes at a patient’s request is a tiny gesture of professional courtesy until James Tucker turns it into a trap. Basic Psych, directed by Melissa Martin, understands the thriller value of a private room where one man talks and another man must decide how much danger the words contain. That setup belongs to a long American tradition of profession-based suspense, where law, medicine, policing, and family duty collide in offices with tasteful lamps and bad locks. The film begins on Halloween night in suburban Pennsylvania, with Dr. Eugene Mallo handing out candy before a hooded...

A camera slips beneath tree roots and keeps descending until daylight begins to feel like a rumor. That is the spell Rob Petit casts in Underland, a 79-minute documentary adapted from Robert Macfarlane’s book about the worlds hidden below ordinary ground. The film does not treat caves, drains, mines, and labs as scenic curiosities. It treats them as emotional pressure chambers. Petit narrows Macfarlane’s wide-ranging source to three strands: Fátima Tec Pool entering a Yucatán cave system linked to Mayan ritual life, Bradley Garrett moving through the storm drains beneath Las Vegas, and Mariangela Lisanti working in Canada’s SNOLAB facility...

Wood, stone, elevators, and one dangerously confident little worker can turn a tidy plan into comedy in about ten seconds. Craftlings, from ARIANO Games, understands that tiny autonomous creatures are funniest when they are useful, doomed, or both. Its lineage is obvious: the blind forward march of Lemmings sits in its bones, while the uneven terrain and slapstick danger sometimes recall Worms. Yet the comparison only gets you to the front door. This is a puzzle-strategy game built around settlement management, resource loops, light automation, and battlefield preparation. Across 12 independent stages, the player guides small workers through tightly arranged...

A Tudor statute still casting a shadow over queer lives in Namibia, Barbados, and Sri Lanka sounds like the kind of historical link a documentary might strain to prove. Out Laws does the opposite. Lexi Powner and James Lewis take a clean, direct route from Friedel Dausab’s legal challenge in Namibia to the Buggery Act of 1533, then let the distance between those points become the film’s quiet shock. Dausab filed his case in June 2022 to challenge laws criminalising same-sex relationships in Namibia. That gives the film its narrative spine, and it is a strong one because the court...

A marriage proposal dies in public, then the universe tries to follow it. That is the cleanest joke in Weekend at the End of the World, and the film spends the next 82 minutes trying to make the cosmos look as ridiculous as Karl’s humiliation. Directed by Gille Klabin, who co-wrote the script with Clay Elliott and Spencer McCurnin, the film sends Karl (Elliott) and Miles (Cameron Fife) to a remote cabin after Karl’s botched proposal becomes internet sport. Miles, the kind of friend who mistakes damage control for content creation, has filmed the disaster and helped it go viral....

The wind in Tierra del Fuego does a great deal of acting before any person gets a proper scene. Sofía Petersen’s Olivia understands that isolation can be built from sound before plot, from a room before dialogue, from a hut that seems less like shelter than a small geometric spell placed against the end of the world. Petersen’s first feature follows Olivia, played by Tina Sconochini, a young woman living with her aging father in a small A-frame home near the mountains. He leaves each day for his job at a slaughterhouse. She sleeps through daylight, collects insects, pins them...
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A psychiatrist tearing up his notes at a patient’s request is a tiny gesture of professional courtesy until James Tucker turns it into a trap. Basic Psych, directed by Melissa...
A camera slips beneath tree roots and keeps descending until daylight begins to feel like a rumor. That is the spell Rob Petit casts in Underland, a 79-minute documentary adapted...
Wood, stone, elevators, and one dangerously confident little worker can turn a tidy plan into comedy in about ten seconds. Craftlings, from ARIANO Games, understands that tiny autonomous creatures are...
A Tudor statute still casting a shadow over queer lives in Namibia, Barbados, and Sri Lanka sounds like the kind of historical link a documentary might strain to prove. Out...
A marriage proposal dies in public, then the universe tries to follow it. That is the cleanest joke in Weekend at the End of the World, and the film spends...
Wood, stone, elevators, and one dangerously confident little worker can turn a tidy plan into comedy in about ten seconds....
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