Spite is an unsettling, atmospheric low budget indie film that centers on a 36 year old woman, Johanna (Masha Cima), who returns to her childhood home after the death of her estranged, abusive mother.
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Enjoying its world premiere at the Austin Film Festival, The Boy from St. Croix is a heartfelt documentary of Hall-of-Fame professional basketball player Tim Duncan.
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Rebecca Zlotowski’s A Private Life (2025) is an enjoyable comic mystery that proves that the therapist is the last person to know what’s going on.
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Jensen reunites with regular actors Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Mads Mikkelsen for a crime tale about two brothers attempting to retrieve heist money in The Last Viking (2025).
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Where SISU 2 shines is taking every element from the first movie and ramping it all up tenfold.
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Hot, sweaty, and filled with dread, Sirāt goes there and takes you alongside it whether you wanted that or not.
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It’s interesting that we don’t really get movies about monkeys very often, let alone horror movies about how scary monkeys are.
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Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is back as the iconic, deeply Southern, master detective for the third installment of the Knives Out Franchise in writer/director Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man, but this time, something feels different.
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In a world where there is no such thing as job security, No Other Choice resonates as an apt satire-thriller of employment anxiety.
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This year’s Austin Film Festival witnessed a true full-circle moment for filmmaker Austin Kolodney. In 2022, he premiered his short film Two Chairs, Not One at AFF; in 2025, he came back to screen his feature debut Dead’s Man Wire, directed by Gus Van Sant, following its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival.
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Ahead of this year’s Austin Film Festival, take a look at the feature films and documentaries our Hyperreal Film Journal writers can’t wait to see.
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Simply put, watching Angel’s Egg in the quality it deserves has been a significant challenge for decades outside of Japan. Having the opportunity to see a 4K restoration of Angel’s Egg in a movie theater, at Fantastic Fest no less, is a dream come true.
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Though buoyed by strong performances and a sustained sense of tension, Aneil Karia’s hollowed-out adaptation struggles under the weight of its legacy.
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Joachim Trier’s latest is a success in creating an intergenerational story of art and personal history.
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By positioning Videoheaven as both a cinematic essay and an archive, Alex Ross Perry ensures that the memory of video stores won’t just fade into nostalgia, but remain available for future generations to discover.
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From secret screenings to off-the-wall showings, Fantastic Fest has a little something for everyone.
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With the summer coming to an end and temperatures coming down, fall is officially on the horizon. While many people are preparing for football season, us cinephiles are preparing for a different season: the fall film festivals.
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This year’s Toronto International Film Festival will premiere over 300 movies from debut directors and established auteurs like Guillermo del Toro, Chloé Zhao, Park Chan-wook and Claire Denis.
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Director duo Raitis and Lauris Abele, brothers, explore the dichotomy between the church and the tavern as two separate houses of gluttony, the most underrated of the seven deadly sins.
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Animals in War is an anthology of seven short films credited to Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi.
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