Steve Erickson

Steve Erickson Gay City News Oct 16, 2026 The film’s melodramatic overload collides with its prestige ambitions. Los Javis, as the duo call themselves, have taken the material of an epic novel and scrambled it. Go to Full Review La Bola Negra (2026) 87% - -

Steve Erickson Gay City News Oct 12, 2026 Despite some missteps, “Free Leonard Peltier” forges a damning indictment of what justice really means in the US. Go to Full Review Free Leonard Peltier (2025) 86% - -

Steve Erickson Arts Fuse Oct 9, 2026 Treating poverty as a mood as much as a reality poses enormous dangers, but Barrio Triste never feels as though it were made by a slumming social worker. Go to Full Review Barrio Triste (2025) 71% - -

Steve Erickson Arts Fuse Sep 30, 2026 Shibasaki achieves something closer to a quietly repulsive numbness — this is a woman whose heart has been hollowed out by violence. Serpent’s Path reveals her history in small, deliberate drips. Go to Full Review Serpent's Path (2024) 83% - -

Steve Erickson Arts Fuse Sep 30, 2026 This isn’t a lazy documentary, content to be a vessel for what is a damning case against mechanized barbarity. Abraham and Szor thought hard about its aesthetics. Go to Full Review NAZA (2026) 100% - -

Steve Erickson Gay City News Sep 21, 2026 It’s conflict without politics, which becomes meaningless. Go to Full Review Without Blood (2024) 24% - -

Steve Erickson Gay City News Sep 2, 2026 If it’s a neatly crafted biography, its images constantly shift with the times. More than a mere biography, it functions as a “greatest hits” compilation. Go to Full Review Barbara Forever (2026) 100% - -

Steve Erickson Gay City News Aug 21, 2026 “Dreams in Nightmares” values their small and large pleasures. It makes an epiphany out of eating a pastry. This is a chosen family vacation. Go to Full Review Dreams in Nightmares (2024) 100% - -

Steve Erickson Gay City News Aug 17, 2026 Whenever it threatens to turn into schtick, the core reality of Frankie and Molly’s relationship keeps the film aloft. Go to Full Review The Wrong Girls (2026) 61% - -

Steve Erickson Arts Fuse Aug 11, 2026 Bodyhackers establishes a thoroughly convincing mood of panicked disconnection propelled by our bodies’ transformation into commodities and by a looming sense of ecological doom. Go to Full Review Bodyhackers (2026) - - - -

Steve Erickson Arts Fuse Aug 11, 2026 Never After Dark spends much of its runtime establishing its atmosphere, but that effort lets it break its own rules. Go to Full Review Never After Dark (2026) 98% - -

Steve Erickson Arts Fuse Aug 11, 2026 The screenplay’s three-part structure ends up keeping suspense and mystery at bay. There’s a degree of thematic ambition here, but no urgency whatsoever is generated. Go to Full Review Veins (2025) - - - -

Steve Erickson Screen Slate Aug 10, 2026 Shot in Italy with a script co-written by Dario Argento, Cemetery Without Crosses takes inspiration from the period’s spaghetti Westerns. Go to Full Review Cemetery Without Crosses (1969) - - 49%

Steve Erickson Gay City News Aug 10, 2026 Dripping with love for ‘80s horror films, it also suggests how much human experience they treated as monstrous or left out. It finds as much space for happiness as possible within a trap. Go to Full Review Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) 94% - -

Steve Erickson Gay City News Jul 31, 2026 Calling back to Madonna at her heyday of outrage, Wilde keeps any trace of vulnerability out of her performance. Go to Full Review I Want Your Sex (2026) 92% - -

Steve Erickson Gay City News Jul 11, 2026 At worst, its indictment of their desires has its cake while eating it too, denouncing objectification while the camera lingers endlessly over nude bodies. But in the end, it’s interested in the prospects for rebellion. Go to Full Review Macho Dancer (1988) - - 70%

Steve Erickson Gay City News Jul 2, 2026 Mary Oliver: Saved By The Beauty Of The World makes such extensive use of the settings which inspired her writing that they transcend illustrative B-roll. The film becomes a way of incorporating Oliver’s ethos into another medium. Go to Full Review Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World (2026) 94% - -

Steve Erickson Arts Fuse Jun 23, 2026 The power of Loznitsa’s film stems from its deep repugnance at an acceptance of the aesthetic and moral poverty of dictatorship. Go to Full Review Two Prosecutors (2025) 98% 30%

Steve Erickson Gay City News Jun 22, 2026 Melodrama has been a form queer male directors use to engage with women’s lives. In “Maddie’s Secret,” one senses how genuine this dimension is. Go to Full Review Maddie's Secret (2025) 85% - -

Steve Erickson Gay City News Jun 22, 2026 Using horror as a filter allows it to treat real-life darkness without a 1:1 correlation. Go to Full Review Leviticus (2026) 92% - -