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Drag Review: Slapstick Leaves a Blood Trail

The funniest idea in Drag is also its cruelest: escape depends on a body that can barely move. Raviv Ullman and Greg Yagolnitzer build their feature debut around that physical contradiction, turning an isolated luxury house in upstate New York into a machine for humiliating two thieves who entered expecting an easy night. Lizzy Caplan plays the older sister, credited as Fuckup, whose claim that the homeowner owes her money barely persuades her younger sibling. Lucy DeVito’s Sister waits outside as the reluctant lookout until a scream pulls her into the house. Fuckup has slipped inside the upstairs bathtub and...

Son of Sara Review: A Queer Horror Story Trapped in Familiar Rituals

Sara’s body tells the truth long before anyone around her understands what is happening. She is days past her due date, exhausted by contractions, unable to keep food down, and drawn toward raw ground beef with a hunger that frightens her. Houston Bone’s Son of Sara gains its strongest emotional hold by staying close to those sensations. Sweat, trembling, nausea, and sudden pleasure become the film’s language. Chloe Van Landschoot plays Sara with total physical commitment. When Sara secretly spoons raw meat into her mouth, her cheeks fill and her eyes roll back with relief. The scene is disgusting, intimate,...

Mustache Review: Growing Up Under the Family Gaze

Ilyas has been negotiating with his upper lip since the age of ten. By thirteen, the negotiation has collapsed. The thin mustache above his mouth has become a source of humiliation at school, an object of discipline at home, and a visible sign of a body moving ahead without permission. Imran J. Khan treats this predicament with comic tenderness in Mustache, setting one boy’s embarrassment against the religious, economic, and generational pressures of a Pakistani-American household in mid-1990s San Jose. Atharva Verma plays Ilyas as a child caught between several versions of himself. At his Islamic private school, he tries...

Jimmy Review: Baldwin Before the World Was Watching

James Baldwin enters Paris in the back seat of a vintage taxi, surrounded by modern traffic the film makes no effort to hide. The driver says he has always wanted to visit New York. Baldwin replies that he has always wanted to leave. In two lines, Jimmy establishes the pressure behind his voluntary exile, then spends most of its 67 minutes avoiding dialogue entirely. Yashaddai Owens’s feature debut imagines Baldwin at 24, long before televised debates and literary fame fixed him in the public imagination. Benny O. Arthur plays him as a curious young writer moving through Istanbul and Paris,...

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Corsair Cove Review: Skull Rock Makes Supply Chains Spectacular

Corsair Cove turns a shortage of flat land into its strongest design idea. Limbic Entertainment’s pirates escape captivity, occupy an island beneath a skull-shaped mountain, and discover that building paradise requires a worrying amount of rope. Workshops cling to cliffs. Taverns sit across chasms from their breweries. Ziplines carry timber downward while elevators drag workers back up. The studio’s history with Tropico 6 is visible in the bright presentation, mischievous politics, and constant pressure to keep an unruly population satisfied. Its closest ancestor is Tropico 2: Pirate Cove, yet this is no reskinned sequel. The island’s vertical shape changes how...

Middle Life Review: Borrowed Joy Between Two Stalled Lives

Planning saves Andie from uncertainty until the plan begins to feel like a sentence. She has scheduled the recognizable markers of adulthood with almost architectural precision: marriage, professional stability, a child at thirty-four. In one quietly revealing sequence, she presents that timeline to a friend as evidence of competence while her husband, Chris, describes the same arrangement as a life in which his own will has gradually disappeared. Pavan Moondi’s Middle Life places this domestic exhaustion beside a violent accident. Driving through suburban Toronto at night, Andie finds a car overturned on the road. Inside are plumber Ryan and his...

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