Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike for a 1995 murder, but the lethal injection failed. Pike survives and was moved to a medical facility.

We’re still living in the world that this show helped create.

Officials at the Office of Minority Health told grantees that they’re prioritizing “root causes” of infertility and promoting exercise.

Director David Wain’s comedy is inextricable from the people he’s surrounded himself with for over two decades, and the result are movies that feel like a group of friends getting together to do stupi...

The Wrong Girls Review: Stoners Save the World

The next period for applying to become a member of the Austin Film Critics Association runs from July 1st to July 31st, 2026. Our requirements are as follows: You must reside in Austin, Texas, and …

Olivia Wilde’s The Invite might aim to be a meaningful excavation of a relationship on the rocks, but this marriage drama isn’t covering any new terrain.

The Supreme Court is not saying people don’t have certain rights, just that no courts can help them when those rights are violated.

While director Miko Lim does craft a visually arresting documentary—with both his own filmography and his subject’s archival footage—he’s less successful in telling the story of the man at the center ...

Miniatures designed by Christopher Lee Warren and his team feature in Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters and Alex Prager’s DreamQuil, which premiered at the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival.

Verhoeven trusts us to take in an onslaught of religious parallels and florid symbolism and come to our own conclusions on what it all means—if anything.

Faces of Death was “banned in 46 countries.” It claimed its shocking footage was all real. Some of it was.

Alex Prager’s directorial debut DreamQuil, which had its world premiere at the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival, is a study of contrasts. Prager’s DreamQuil is a tonally confused and mostly incoherent mov...

Ready or Not was a runaway hit and instant cult classic, and with that success comes the inevitable sequel. Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, which had its world premiere at this year’s SXSW Film & TV Fest...

Brooks politically neuters the movie to the point of inanity in his attempt to show that a pure heart can win

Thurs, Dec. 18th – The Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) announces its 2025 award winners.  One Battle After Another leads the way, winning 5 awards from its 12 nominations in 11 categories – …

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...

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In director Jonatan Etzler and writer Jess O’Kane's new dark comedy Bad Apples, Saoirse Ronan plays Maria, a primary school teacher who takes matters into her own hands after an onslaught of personal ...

Aneil Karia’s Hamlet, one of two Shakespeare films at TIFF '25, brings the play in its original Early Modern English to contemporary London. Despite an excellent performance from Riz Ahmed, Karia’s h...

The crux of the movie is the relationship between Nora, Gustav, and Agnes, and it’s brought to life with both Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt’s deeply thought out family dynamics and the real chemistry b...

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.

Aronofsky has met and exceeded the hype, crafting a crime thriller with real emotional heft.

Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.

ICE officials keep touting a 413 percent increase in assaults on officers to justify officers masking their identities.