IFC Midnight Archives -

ODDITY MOVIE REVIEW We’ll never look at a terrifying, lifesize, wooden Golem the same ever again. Damian McCarthy’s second feature film, Oddity, has an incredibly simple and dread inducing setup. Carolyn Bracken plays Dani who’s renovating her home while her husband Dr Timmis, played by Gwilym Lee, works the overnight shift at the local mental […]

BIRTH/REBIRTH MOVIE REVIEW Do you like undead children, zombie pigs, and Mini-DV tapes? Well you’re in luck! Birth/Rebirth is Laura Moss’ directorial debut with a chilling and unnerving story about the lengths that a mother would go through for her child. Judy Reyes stars as Celie, an overworked RN, whose daughter Lila, played by A.J. […]

BURIAL MOVIE REVIEW As the Russians advanced on Berlin, Adolf Hitler, hiding in his bunker, shot himself rather than face falling into Russian hands. History indicates he was cremated, and his ashes seized by the Russians, who moved them around, rather than leave them in a permanent space to allow for the creation of a […]

RESURRECTION MOVIE REVIEW In 1999 an evil Scottish villain named Fat Bastard stared down a mini me and said “Get in my Belly!”. This hilarious timeless quote is most likely not the inspiration for writer/director Andrew Semans film Resurrection but it would certainly explain a lot if it influenced it to some degree. Margaret (Rebecca Hall) is […]

FLUX GOURMET MOVIE REVIEW Peter Strickland’s (In Fabric) latest film, Flux Gourmet, is a feast of sight and sound commenting on the pretentious art world. Fatma Mohamed, Ariane Labed, and Asa Butterfield star as a trio of musically talented culinary artists that have been accepted in the prestigious Sonic Culinary Institute. Gwendoline Christie runs said […]

A BANQUET MOVIE REVIEW Pull up a seat at the table because you are cordially invited to join the Screener Squad for A Banquet. Our menu consists of generational trauma, scathing grief, and please feel free to go for seconds. You see, our host family has a daughter who no longer eats. At all. You […]

SETTLERS MOVIE REVIEW This movie about colonizing Mars is interestingly timed, seeing as a couple of billionaires have recently shot themselves into orbit in their definitely not overcompensating giant dick rockets, and the conversation of space travel and eventual colonization of Mars is prominent in the zeitgeist. But people discuss going to the Red Planet […]

WEREWOLVES WITHIN MOVIE REVIEW Sam Richardson (“Veep”) plays Finn, an amiable, always ‘up’, brand new forest ranger to the tiny mountain town of Beaverton. He has NO idea what he’s in for. Sure, the local postal worker Cecily (Milana Vayntrub) is super-sweet and definitely is sending him some signals, but everyone else seems a leeeeeetle […]