The Take-Up

Andrew Wyatt The Take-Up Oct 20, 2026 The strangest, most unexpectedly absorbing feature debut of 2026: Directors Auen and Walker's deliberate and borderline experimental "academic procedural" about a real-world conspiracy theory disintegrates into unsettling, existential howl. Go to Full Review Chronovisor (2026) 96% - -

Andrew Wyatt The Take-Up Oct 12, 2026 Rob Zombie's secret masterpiece: The mad carnival barker of modern horror channels his cinematic influences into a aesthetically striking and unexpectedly melancholic rumination on the darkling allure of transformation and annihilation. Go to Full Review The Lords of Salem (2012) 46% 30%

Andrew Wyatt The Take-Up Oct 5, 2026 Color me pleasantly surprised: Emerald Fennel's hot-and-bothered, maximalist spin on Emily Brontë's classic proves both sensually invigorating and generous towards its characters' flawed humanity (and not-so-secret kinks). Go to Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 57% - -

Andrew Wyatt The Take-Up Sep 28, 2026 Never mind the hate: Daniels' feature might not be a secret masterpiece, but it's still a thick-cut slice of richly textured Florida-Man noir, with its own sticky, sleazy, idiosyncratic pleasures. Go to Full Review The Paperboy (2012) 46% 33%

Andrew Wyatt The Take-Up Sep 21, 2026 Mitchell demonstrates a satisfying affinity for a wide-canvas thriller packed with mainstream pop spectacle, but his evocation of Amblin-esque nostalgia is smartly interwoven with a deconstruction of the same. Go to Full Review The End of Oak Street (2026) 86% - -

Andrew Wyatt The Take-Up Sep 8, 2026 Two decades later, Michel Gondry's landmark feature still impresses: a magical, meticulous, and authentically devastating triumph that finds poetry in the banal (but no less excruciating) angst of human relationships. Go to Full Review Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 93% 94%

Andrew Wyatt The Take-Up Sep 1, 2026 A work as enthusiastically geeky about the cinematic past as a freshly minted film-studies graduate, and as quiveringly horny as a home-schooled teenage lesbian discovering her first volume of 'Bloom Into You'. Go to Full Review Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) 94% - -

Andrew Wyatt The Take-Up Aug 31, 2026 A singular achievement in the autobiographical documentary space. Engrossing and unexpectedly accessible, a multi-layered engagement with the medium and its relationship to truth, both personal and communal. Go to Full Review Cameraperson (2016) 100% 69%

Andrew Wyatt The Take-Up Aug 5, 2026 Sophy Romvari's tender, piercing, and revelatory feature debut posits that the mysteries of the past (living and dead) are always just out of reach, but also that there is still value in processing them through art and artifice. Go to Full Review Blue Heron (2025) 97% - -

Andrew Wyatt The Take-Up Jul 31, 2026 Thrumming with striking imagery, invigorating texture, and a bold, modern reimagining of ancient themes, Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' defies the gods (odds?) and ushers in a gritty yet soulful new adaptation of one of the Western canon's ur-texts. Go to Full Review The Odyssey (2026) 94% - -

Andrew Wyatt The Take-Up Jul 27, 2026 20 years later, 'The Prestige' rises from the pack as Christopher Nolan's "early period" masterwork: a lush and exhilarating depiction of dueling worldviews, shared obsessions, and the emergent challenges and horrors of our godless, technocratic world. Go to Full Review The Prestige (2006) 77% 92%

Andrew Wyatt The Take-Up Jul 21, 2026 So fundamentally broken as a work of cinema that it lurches right past "So Bad It's Good" ironic pleasure and becomes an instructive negative example. In other words, Neil Breen is so bad at this that he accidentally teaches us why good movies are good. Go to Full Review Fateful Findings (2013) - - 51%

Andrew Wyatt The Take-Up Jul 15, 2026 Uncut New Extremity-adjacent horror with a gooey slathering of action-flick momentum. It may not handle its thorny themes with a subtle touch, but subtlety has never been a part of this series’ satanic warp and weft. Go to Full Review Evil Dead Burn (2026) 70% - -

Andrew Wyatt The Take-Up Jul 13, 2026 A towering achievement and Melville's opus: The WWII Resistance film as a jittery, meticulous procedural, banded in iron-willed fatalism and soaked with cold sweat. Go to Full Review Army of Shadows (1969) 97% 94%

Andrew Wyatt The Take-Up Jun 26, 2026 Assayas' "stranger in a strange land" dramedy still shines, 30 years later: an acerbic, insouciant and yet virtuosic delight about movies, movie-making, art, commerce, cultural identity, and the allure of a latex catsuit. Go to Full Review Irma Vep (1996) 94% 71%

Andrew Wyatt The Take-Up Jun 19, 2026 Against all odds, Kane Parsons' buzzy debut feature threads the needle in more ways than one. Balancing the familiar and the uncanny, the personal and the cosmic, 'Backrooms' illustrates that the future of horror is in good hands. Go to Full Review Backrooms (2026) 86% - -

Andrew Wyatt The Take-Up May 15, 2026 B A sense of out-of-control momentum is key to the film’s potency, and Inde Navarrette is the engine that keeps the roller coaster clattering along until it plunges straight into the abyss. Go to Full Review Obsession (2025) 93% - -

Andrew Wyatt The Take-Up Mar 13, 2026 A dizzying, richly textured, and darkly comic whirldwind of a movie. Chamelet delivers a mesmerizing, roman-candle performance, but Safdie and all of his collaborators are equally locked in on the centrality of scams to the American identity. Go to Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% - -

Andrew Wyatt The Take-Up Mar 2, 2026 A bloodsucking blockbuster with legs: Ryan Coogler cashes his Hollywood check in spectacular fashion, delivering a landmark vampire film bursting with terrific energy, smart writing, and unabashed sexiness. Go to Full Review Sinners (2025) 97% - -

Andrew Wyatt The Take-Up Feb 20, 2026 Guillermo del Toro long-gestating passion project does not disappoint: an opulent, ravishing re-imagining of Shelley's eternal tale, replete with terrible fathers, hot monsters, and great, beautiful gowns. Go to Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% - -