Eric Henderson

Eric Henderson Slant Magazine Sep 13, 2026 2/4 The film is less self-examination than self-pity, and it arguably feels like outright theft from the lives of people close to Pedro Almodóvar. Go to Full Review Bitter Christmas (2026) 87% - -

Eric Henderson Slant Magazine Sep 2, 2026 Watching it now, American Dream plays less like history than prophecy, one that Hormel Foods in Austin, Minnesota, and seemingly everyone after it, was only too happy to fulfill. Go to Full Review American Dream (1990) 100% 88%

Eric Henderson Slant Magazine Jul 22, 2026 3.5/5 Halloween II is no masterpiece, and established a framework for some of the hackiest filmmaking in horror history. But at least the world knows now to never run on hospital floors covered in fresh blood. Go to Full Review Halloween II (1981) 27% 63%

Eric Henderson Slant Magazine Jun 24, 2026 Desperate Living is John Waters’s most furious political statement. Go to Full Review Desperate Living (1977) 73% 80%

Eric Henderson Slant Magazine May 21, 2026 The Delta, when held against the amiable optimism of Beautiful Thing, Get Real, or Trick, feels almost surreal in its lack of sexual generalization. Go to Full Review The Delta (1996) 75% 37%

Eric Henderson Slant Magazine Mar 17, 2026 4/5 Dante foregrounds his werewolves’ cartoon carnality by any means necessary, often finding endearingly clumsy parallels between mastication and copulation. Go to Full Review The Howling (1981) 76% 60%

Eric Henderson Slant Magazine Dec 16, 2025 3.5/5 The film rewards both [Arnie] and us with some of the strongest pieces of straightforward commercial filmmaking of Carpenter’s career. Go to Full Review Christine (1983) 69% 64%

Eric Henderson Slant Magazine Nov 11, 2025 4/5 Fueled by the finest, most aurally expensive-sounding suite of music Q ever mounted, the entire project arguably reaches its apotheosis in the centerpiece Emerald City sequence. Go to Full Review The Wiz (1978) 38% 65%

Eric Henderson Slant Magazine Jul 7, 2025 It isn’t vulgar to suggest that Kubrick may have identified with Barry the autodidact. Go to Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 77% 92%

Eric Henderson Slant Magazine Sep 6, 2024 3/4 Truong Minh Quy’s new queer romance-cum-sociohistorical lament mines beauty from both collective desolation and individual endurance. Go to Full Review Viet and Nam (2024) 98% - -

Eric Henderson Slant Magazine Jun 23, 2024 Pride is many things, but this year it’s mostly the cut of Brad Davis’s muscle shirt cradling his cleavage like no piece of cloth has this side of Marlon Brando’s Stanley Kowalski. Go to Full Review Querelle (1982) 65% 70%

Eric Henderson Slant Magazine Jan 25, 2024 2/4 There’s only so much that director Charles Stone III can do with the script’s “head held high” cornpone. Go to Full Review The Underdoggs (2024) 42% - -

Eric Henderson Slant Magazine Dec 3, 2023 2.5/4 Without spoiling its increasingly ludicrous (and ludicrously believable) escalations, American Fiction ultimately gets off scot-free clinging doggedly to the middle ground. Go to Full Review American Fiction (2023) 93% - -

Eric Henderson Slant Magazine Sep 6, 2023 3/4 At once an excoriating satire of the performativity of homosexuality within a social media-addled community as well as a seemingly earnest lament for the total loss of collectivity, the film minces neither words nor bodily appendages. Go to Full Review Rotting in the Sun (2023) 82% 71%

Eric Henderson Slant Magazine Aug 8, 2023 2/4 Few, if any, single-shot movies ever justify the conceit. In fact, most of them do their material a disservice through the distraction that emerges naturally from the trickery. Go to Full Review Medusa Deluxe (2022) 71% 47%

Eric Henderson Slant Magazine May 18, 2023 Far from a period piece, Targets’s contrasting tales capture a still-relevant portrait of America’s uniquely schizophrenic relationship with gun violence. Go to Full Review Targets (1968) 89% 81%

Eric Henderson Slant Magazine Apr 27, 2023 3/4 The sense that they don’t make mass entertainments like this anymore is palpable. Go to Full Review Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) 99% 80%

Eric Henderson Slant Magazine Apr 3, 2023 Joan Micklin Silver’s humble PG-rated romantic dramedy is, in its brisk 95 minutes, a more adult entertainment than nearly any studio-backed film you could name from the past decade or so. Go to Full Review Head Over Heels (1979) 90% 90%

Eric Henderson Slant Magazine Jan 10, 2023 The film remains a conscientious depiction of the bitter realities of race in America. Go to Full Review Imitation of Life (1934) 88% 85%

Eric Henderson Slant Magazine Dec 21, 2022 2/4 There are only clichés in this rise-and-fall material, with the sole distinctive wrinkle being the weight given to the rise versus the fall. Go to Full Review Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022) 43% 92%