- Give Miracle Mile this: the movie isn’t afraid to take some weird and wild swings and has the mad energy to see them through. It’s far from perfect, but it’s a madcap race that carries you along.
- Relay is very stylish, very clever, very tense as a thriller. It’s a bit of a shame that it doesn’t quite hold together in the end, but it works very well until then.
- We Bury the Dead is an in interesting, if not necessarily satisfying take on the zombie movie. There are strong performances, particularly from Ridley, and it’s not exactly the movie’s fault that its central metaphor doesn’t exactly break new ground.
- Fréwaka is such a slow burn that it’s a bit of a shame when it rushes its plot along near the end. But it’s deeply tense and upsetting and a terrific work of horror.
- Gidget is an odd movie to watch in 2026—at times very much embracing, if not inventing, every cliche of late 1950s/early 1960s teen comedies, and at other times feeling weirdly subversive of those cliches. Certainly, it’s a little weirder and more sexually frank than I was expecting. While I wouldn’t necessarily call it good, Sandra Dee is genuinely charming in the title role.
- The Wrong Guy is deeply silly, but also deeply smart about its silliness. It’s a “case of mistaken identity” thriller, but one in which the protagonist is the one who makes the mistake.
I also rewatched Black Sunday, which is delightfully over-the-top Italian Gothic horror.
