Alan Zilberman

Alan Zilberman Spectrum Culture 3 days ago 2/5 It considers the horror of forced breeding only in terms of imprisonment, maybe because director Alex Goyette feels anything beyond that is too icky for him. Has he ever spoken to a doula or midwife, let alone an actual woman? Go to Full Review Breeder (2026) 87% - -

Alan Zilberman Washington City Paper 3 days ago The result can sometimes be slight, although often Pawlikowski finds more dramatic rigor in his economical run time than his more longwinded contemporaries. Go to Full Review Fatherland (2026) 93% - -

Alan Zilberman Washington City Paper Oct 22, 2026 Staggering and provocative, Fjord is the kind of movie where viewers cannot think about it without first considering their personal baggage. Go to Full Review Fjord (2026) 92% - -

Alan Zilberman Spectrum Culture Oct 13, 2026 1.5/5 Animals starts on an off-putting note and never recovers. It is also a clumsy remake of another, better film, although none of the credits or promotional material give any hint about it. Go to Full Review Animals (2026) 30% - -

Alan Zilberman Spectrum Culture Oct 9, 2026 2/5 At least the disastrous climax is an unintentional distraction from Sorkin’s self-indulgence, the kind that does nothing to shake his reputation as a humorless know-it-all. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

Alan Zilberman Washington City Paper Oct 8, 2026 There is a feeling this film could influence world affairs, or be used as evidence. Go to Full Review NAZA (2026) 100% - -

Alan Zilberman Spectrum Culture Oct 1, 2026 3/5 There are literal flights of fancy juxtaposed with scenes of bitter pain. Life, like ballroom dance, can be messy that way. Go to Full Review Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) 91% - -

Alan Zilberman Washington City Paper Oct 1, 2026 Maybe that’s why Hathaway is so much fun to watch here: she saw the inherent trashiness in Hoover’s book as an opportunity for macabre fun, elevating the source material a little bit—but not too much—along the way. Go to Full Review Verity (2026) 31% - -

Alan Zilberman Spectrum Culture Sep 24, 2026 1/5 Every scene is inauthentic, creating a kind of tedium where forced whimsy is just a setup for the other shoe to drop. If viewers do not see the "twist" coming, it is only because Jaques distorts his narrative in irritating ways to make it happen. Go to Full Review Sunny Dancer (2026) 85% - -

Alan Zilberman Washington City Paper Sep 17, 2026 The depiction of rural island life are the real draws to La Perra, as the parallel story of trauma and reconciliation treads in familiar territory. Maybe director Dominga Sotomayor should have made a documentary about Santa María’s animal life instead. Go to Full Review La Perra (2026) 62% - -

Alan Zilberman Washington City Paper Sep 17, 2026 This is funny and withering, albeit in an indirect way, a critique of lazy nonfiction techniques that suggests careful observation has more truth than any sound bite. Go to Full Review Everything Else Is Noise (2026) 100% - -

Alan Zilberman Washington City Paper Sep 17, 2026 Based on a real-life incident, The Red Hangar is urgent and relentless, showing us shock and awe tactics are meant to stifle the urge to do the right thing. Go to Full Review The Red Hangar (2026) 100% - -

Alan Zilberman Washington City Paper Sep 17, 2026 It touches on a lot of themes—including antiquated notions of property rights and colorism within South America—and although its conclusion is practically foregone, the provocative questions Arteaga raises have no easy answers. Go to Full Review Death Has No Master (2026) 76% - -

Alan Zilberman Washington City Paper Sep 17, 2026 Watching Resident Evil does not feel like you are playing a video game, an experience that bad adaptations try to imitate. Instead, this is a ruthlessly fun horror movie with game-influenced grace notes. Go to Full Review Resident Evil (2026) 96% - -

Alan Zilberman Spectrum Culture Sep 17, 2026 3.5/5 Knife is not perfect and can be a little discursive, and ultimately its final minutes redeem it. Not all terror victims have a mind like Rushdie’s, but all perpetrators of terror act with the same irredeemable ugliness. Go to Full Review Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie (2026) 97% - -

Alan Zilberman Spectrum Culture Sep 11, 2026 3.5/5 More than the sum of its parts, it is a thoughtful look at what artistic expression means when you have something to prove in your prime, then how that changes when your time left becomes precious. Go to Full Review Barbara Forever (2026) 100% - -

Alan Zilberman Spectrum Culture Sep 3, 2026 3.5/5 Director Tom Stern understands the confines of good taste and traditional biography cannot contain the band. By embracing subjectivity and contradictory accounts, he is accurate in a way that something more straightforward could never be. Go to Full Review Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt (2025) - - - -

Alan Zilberman Washington City Paper Sep 3, 2026 In following the greats, Hope can be wildly entertaining and suspenseful. It grinds to a halt, unfortunately, when it stops to explain it all. Go to Full Review Hope (2026) 80% - -

Alan Zilberman Spectrum Culture Aug 28, 2026 2/5 Ridley Scott has been at the forefront of genre filmmaking for so long that it is a little shocking, albeit predictable maybe in hindsight; his instincts here are a decade too late. Go to Full Review The Dog Stars (2026) 41% - -

Alan Zilberman Spectrum Culture Aug 28, 2026 4/5 What keeps this an involving drama, rather than a thought experiment about nature versus nurture, is how the characters are honest about their struggle. By the time it arrives at his bittersweet ending, it earns its note of ephemeral, poignant triumph. Go to Full Review The Marching Band (2024) 95% - -