Stephen A. Russell

Stephen A. Russell ScreenHub Oct 19, 2026 While observing authors can often feel like a stuffy bore in the cinema ... Dorabialski’s unique voice captures the mercurial nature of creative writing in a genuinely compelling fashion. Go to Full Review Agata the Writer (2026) - - - -

Stephen A. Russell ScreenHub Oct 15, 2026 McDonagh’s writing here isn’t as sharp or sorrowful as Inisherin, nor as politically acute [but] there is great chemistry between Malkovich and Rockwell. Go to Full Review Wild Horse Nine (2026) 93% - -

Stephen A. Russell ABC News (Australia) Sep 25, 2026 By the time Cregger's mighty tight 90-minute panic attack thrusts a hopelessly hobbled Bryan into Prague-shot Raccoon City's burning hospital, the film's gloriously unhinged finale ... will have you baying for his brain to deliver a sequel. Go to Full Review Resident Evil (2026) 96% - -

Stephen A. Russell Time Out Sep 23, 2026 Heart of the Beast features a dashing hunk with a great mane of hair, sparkling eyes full of careworn soul and a winning performance ... But enough about Uber, who plays combat service dog Odin. Go to Full Review Heart of the Beast (2026) 85% - -

Stephen A. Russell ScreenHub Sep 16, 2026 It’s a soul-glowing riot from the minute it opens, with a *disclaimer that WB is a wholly owned subsidiary of Acme, to a closing salute to everyone who believed in seeing it for themselves. Go to Full Review Coyote vs. Acme (2026) 96% - -

Stephen A. Russell ScreenHub Sep 16, 2026 Don’t Look Back in Anger is more about connection through music and its uncanny ability to lift our collective spirits than it is a portrait of dislocation... it’s the generational bridge that’s been built that brings hope. Go to Full Review Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger (2026) 97% - -

Stephen A. Russell ScreenHub Sep 12, 2026 There’s healing between the lines here, in a film that will resonate deeply with anyone dealing with ailing parents and the vagaries of navigating relationships through time and space. Home is, after all, wherever the heart is. Go to Full Review Time and Tide (2026) - - - -

Stephen A. Russell Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Sep 11, 2026 A tight chamber piece with a theatrical feel and a raging hunger for the horn. Go to Full Review The Invite (2026) 96% - -

Stephen A. Russell Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Sep 8, 2026 Love and forgiveness soak the sore bones of Jenkins’ equal parts tender and tumultuous Moonlight. An enduring gift to cinema, it’s a homecoming in many senses. Go to Full Review Moonlight (2016) 98% 79%

Stephen A. Russell Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Sep 7, 2026 With stunning production design, costumes, score, cinematography and more, this is grown-up cinema at its most scintillating. Go to Full Review The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026) 97% - -

Stephen A. Russell Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Sep 7, 2026 The lived reality of war rumbles through the floorboards towards you in Palestinian-Syrian filmmaker Abdallah Al-Khatib’s nerve-shattering thriller that stitches a tapestry of loosely overlapping lives to give a sense of what is lost. Go to Full Review Chronicles from the Siege (2026) - - - -

Stephen A. Russell Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Sep 7, 2026 It’s an absolute delight, but plan to hydrate as much as possible given you’ll be losing gallons from your eyeballs, especially if, like me, you’ve had to say goodbye to a parent. Go to Full Review Tangles (2026) 95% - -

Stephen A. Russell Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Sep 7, 2026 Saying a lot about our screentime addiction without ever feeling didactic, this one will gently unmoor you. Go to Full Review Light Pillar (2026) - - - -

Stephen A. Russell Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Sep 7, 2026 Blaževičius’ cruise missile-guided point ignites this desert-dry black comedy of ill manners. Go to Full Review How to Divorce During the War (2026) 100% - -

Stephen A. Russell Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Sep 7, 2026 It takes the humdrum reality of working a buzzing, floodlit convenience store and heightens its indignities ever so slowly, like boiling an unwitting frog... a scalding satire that sizzles. Go to Full Review Anymart (2026) - - - -

Stephen A. Russell Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Sep 7, 2026 Emotionally anchored by their bashful recollections, alongside luminous recreations in which they’re portrayed by Chirag Lobo and Mina Dale, it’s astonishingly gorgeous. Go to Full Review The Cycle of Love (2025) 100% - -

Stephen A. Russell ABC News (Australia) Aug 27, 2026 At several stages during Ridley Scott's latest movie ... characters stare up at the night's glimmering star-scape ... sadly, it only serves to remind us just how far he has fallen, as a filmmaker, since the heady heights of Alien and Blade Runner. Go to Full Review The Dog Stars (2026) 41% - -

Stephen A. Russell Time Out Aug 27, 2026 Closer in spirit to the ruggedly romantic Wicker than the sacrificial scares of The Wicker Man, The Incomer is a delightfully dotty film that adds a twist of Yorgos Lanthimos to its Celtic spirit. Go to Full Review The Incomer (2026) 95% - -

Stephen A. Russell ScreenHub Aug 23, 2026 It’s all underpinned with a starry-eyed wonder and a family core that’s both biological and chosen, anchored by Thomson’s shining-bright presence and the charm of Armstrong. Go to Full Review Our Effed Up World (2026) 93% - -

Stephen A. Russell Time Out Aug 23, 2026 With Arnaud Toulon’s lilting score and the sad-boy energy of a Xavier Dolan film, plus a hint of Louis Malle’s Au Revoir Les Enfants or François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows, Givry’s tender coming-of-age film is a striking debut. Go to Full Review Goodbye Cruel World (2026) - - - -