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Yes: It's We Who Write This History

Few films open with the kind of potent verve that Yes has, beginning in media res during a house party with thumping dance music and some of the most abrasive, eye-searing lighting to be found this side of a Gaspar Noé film. An almost fetishistic level of virulent hedonism that

Mother Mary: It Seeks and Finds Me

David Lowery knows just how to cut between the tangible stasis we exist within and the boundless supernatural beyond it, the way that narrative worlds unfurl when you and your characters accept that some things exist beyond explanation or understanding. This lends itself to multiple avenues, both the most literalized

I'm Thinking of Spoiling Things: Project Hail Mary

After a contentious hiatus following the harrowing experience of watching Hurry Up Tomorrow, your hosts return to Toronto's hottest live music venue to discuss films in front of an incidental studio audience. In an enduring effort to maintain nothing more than the utmost authenticity to our format, a

Wuthering Heights: All Is Lost And I Am Left To Rot

Regression of form. A real death knell for the direction of cinema as a medium in its insistence on prioritizing aesthetics above any form of emotional resonance or tangible eroticism. Certainly the nadir of a style that's been bludgeoned into existence by cinesthetic-posting that eschews all context from

The Moment: There's No Home For You Here

And I would pound my masterpiece down flat between my hands If it meant I could only roll again - Cameron Winter, "The Rolling Stones" Few things could probably be more cliche and abrasive right now than trying to connect everything to the music of Cameron Winter and

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (Switch): Terrible On Its Own Terms

The issue is not that Metroid Prime 4: Beyond isn't as good as Metroid Prime, the issue is that Metroid Prime 4: Beyond isn't good.

The 25 Best Films of 2025

While the eye of the storm closes in from a thousand forces conspiring to devalue the human spirit in favor of cheap, exploitable profit, we continue to be immersed in a wealth of artistic brilliance that offers insight into the human condition.

HORSES (PC): A Bluntly Buñuelian Attack on Authoritarianism

The context around HORSES means that all conversations about the game end up being conversations around the game, and about the state of the medium as a whole. Despite being one of the most talked about games of the moment, it has somehow fallen out of the conversation even about

Seattle Film Critics Society: 2025 Award Winners

Seattle Film Critics Society (“SFCS”) announced the winners in 22 categories for the 2025 Seattle Film Critics Society Awards on Monday, December 15, 2025. One Battle After Another was named the Best Picture of 2025. Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and shot in immersive Vistavision, the topical comedic

Seattle Film Critics Society: 2025 Awards Nominees

The Seattle Film Critics Society (SFCS) has announced nominations for the 2025 SFCS Awards, honoring the year’s best in film. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners ties the all-time record for most nominations in a single year with 14, matching 2022’s Everything Everywhere All At Once. Close behind with 12

Marty Supreme: Manifest Destiny

Josh Safdie's films largely traffic in the wake of the American dream, or about the way that the promise of this country eventually sands us all down into aberrant messes adrift in a sea of post-capitalist chaos. Over time, the focus has shifted and narrowed to be directed

One Battle After Another: The Revolution Will Put You in the Driver's Seat

The immediacy of Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another is met only by its steadfast refusal to place itself on any specific timeline, instead existing in an anachronistic permanent space of modernity where very little has changed over the course of sixteen years. It is both reflective

The Outer Worlds 2 (Series X): A Conversation Piece

Obsidian Entertainment made a name for themselves as an RPG sequel developer, the most notable titles being Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (2004) and Fallout: New Vegas (2010). With the original The Outer Worlds, Obsidian had a chance to do their own version of the game&

Hades II (Switch): An Argument for Iteration

Beginning on Xbox Live Arcade with Bastion (2011), Supergiant Games have delivered a slew of original games united by an indelible style. To an extent, though, it felt like their design sensibilities were building up to 2020’s Hades, a roguelite that separated itself from its genre contemporaries by turning