Matthew Jackson

Matthew Jackson AV Club 6 days ago D There are countless Christmas movies—good, bad, and in between—more worthy of your time, and more worthy of the holiday. Go to Full Review A Dog's Perfect Christmas (2026) 30% - -

Matthew Jackson AV Club Nov 3, 2026 B- We don’t need a movie about Becky Hooper going soft in the face of her fascist foes, but it would be nice, particularly here at the end, to find Becky capable of growing beyond her rage. Go to Full Review The Last Temptation of Becky (2026) 77% - -

Matthew Jackson Bloody Disgusting Oct 16, 2026 3/5 Milly Shapiro seized the moment and gave a great performance, and with Ben Sottak, we’ve got another rising horror star with loads of potential. It’s a solid film; I just wish there was a little more meat on these Halloween bones. Go to Full Review Hallowarrior (2026) 89% - -

Matthew Jackson Pop Heist Oct 14, 2026 Dense, labyrinthine, hilarious and jaw-dropping, this film about a search for the truth in a world where that may no longer exist is not just an essential documentary movie for 2026. It might just be the best film you'll see this year. Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 96% - -

Matthew Jackson AV Club Sep 29, 2026 C Choppy, meandering, and frustratingly dim (literally and metaphorically), Beware Boiúna squanders a great concept, and swamps the moments it does manage to deliver under loads of narrative and visual murk. Go to Full Review Beware Boiúna (2026) 58% - -

Matthew Jackson Pop Heist Sep 28, 2026 A delicate, occasionally off-balance blend of sticking to the formula and introducing more tried-and-true slasher modes, and the results mostly pay off, even if they can't quite recapture the thrill of the original. Go to Full Review In a Violent Nature 2 (2026) 64% - -

Matthew Jackson Bloody Disgusting Sep 25, 2026 2/5 The film feels cobbled together around one cool idea, and when that one cool idea’s really all to hold onto, the rest of the film sinks. Go to Full Review The Swallow (2026) - - - -

Matthew Jackson Pop Heist Sep 20, 2026 This is a brutal, bombastic blast of a time at the movies. Go to Full Review Resident Evil (2026) 96% - -

Matthew Jackson Bloody Disgusting Sep 20, 2026 3/5 Play House is fun, creepy, earnest, strange, and exactly the kind of movie indie horror fans should be lining up to see. Go to Full Review Play House (2026) 100% - -

Matthew Jackson Looper.com Sep 4, 2026 8/10 While it's not for everyone, "Onslaught" definitely explodes, creating a relentless action-horror hybrid you won't soon forget. Go to Full Review Onslaught (2026) 60% - -

Matthew Jackson Pop Heist Aug 28, 2026 Alexander Ullom's directorial debut deserves to rank among the best first horror films in recent memory thanks to a remarkable clarity of vision, and remarkable commitment to the nightmarish, endless hum of the wheels beneath its engine. Go to Full Review It Ends (2025) 93% - -

Matthew Jackson Bloody Disgusting Aug 21, 2026 3/5 The story’s not quite all the way there, and the camera work sometimes devolves into the needlessly frenetic, but this is still a remarkably tense, brutal piece of work that goes for the throat and, despite loosening its grip now and then, never lets go. Go to Full Review Bury the Devil (2026) 71% - -

Matthew Jackson Bloody Disgusting Aug 20, 2026 3.5/5 It doesn’t always hit the mark, but its ambition, visual beauty, and genuinely unnerving narrative help to make it another compelling outing from some of indie horror’s finest. Go to Full Review Blood Shine (2025) 83% - -

Matthew Jackson Pop Heist Aug 14, 2026 This is, undeniably, one of the best films of the year, not just because of what it says, but because of what it invites us to say about ourselves. Go to Full Review Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) 94% - -

Matthew Jackson Bloody Disgusting Aug 3, 2026 4.5/5 This is a film that puts its own singular stamp on the landscape of independent genre filmmaking now, a beautiful, dreamy, earnest blend of horror, comedy, and good old-fashioned British weird that’s one of the best things I’ve seen all year. Go to Full Review The Peril at Pincer Point (2026) 100% - -

Matthew Jackson Pop Heist Jul 31, 2026 One of Japan's finest horror minds approaches the themes that made him an icon in surprising, terrifying new ways, giving us one of the best new horror films of the year in the process. Go to Full Review The Mouths (2026) 80% - -

Matthew Jackson Bloody Disgusting Jul 31, 2026 4/5 It’s a chilling artistic breakthrough, and an announcement that Hanna Bergholm is not just here to stay, but getting better all the time. Go to Full Review Nightborn (2026) 71% - -

Matthew Jackson Bloody Disgusting Jul 27, 2026 3.5/5 It’s a small movie with big ideas and even bigger ambitions, and that makes it one of the most compelling indie breakouts from this year’s Fantasia Festival. Go to Full Review Godhead (2026) 100% - -

Matthew Jackson Pop Heist Jul 27, 2026 This is a twisty, well-paced, very fun holiday horror delight with surprising emotional resonance, and it'll be making its way into my Christmas movie rotation for years to come. Go to Full Review Unholy Night (2026) 65% - -

Matthew Jackson Pop Heist Jul 23, 2026 It might not convince anyone to become a new NWR fan, but as someone who's been following his particular cinematic expressiveness for a while now, I was dazzled. Go to Full Review Her Private Hell (2026) 40% - -