The Treatment (Substack)

Charlotte Simmons The Treatment (Substack) 5 days ago By killing the scarecrow — the ideal stand-in for the concept of the Southern Gothic — a distinctly postmodern evolution of the subgenre is suggested, and indeed the film’s proceedings follow suit. Go to Full Review Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981) 67% 64%

Charlotte Simmons The Treatment (Substack) Oct 28, 2026 There’s a cohesion here between the shadow of Hollywood’s underbelly, the grease of a porno set, and queer storytelling’s long-established propensity for catty camp and genuine poignancy that yields an abundance of tonally-novel sweetspots Go to Full Review Cutaways (2025) - - - -

Charlotte Simmons The Treatment (Substack) Oct 28, 2026 Its singularity mostly lives and dies with its absurdist popfly, though I have to say, again, that it lives that particular life to the fullest. Go to Full Review Party USA (2026) - - - -

Charlotte Simmons The Treatment (Substack) Oct 26, 2026 Have at it, you maniacs. Go to Full Review Slice (2025) - - - -

Charlotte Simmons The Treatment (Substack) Oct 24, 2026 When you’re trafficking in Serlingcore genre suspense, you more-or-less need to understand that the storytelling logic begins with the subtext. Go to Full Review Echoes From the Void (2026) - - - -

Charlotte Simmons The Treatment (Substack) Oct 23, 2026 I found the majority of Demon Dancer to be torturous and hideous. It’s also perhaps one of the best action movies I’ve ever seen Go to Full Review Demon Dancer: Sua/Nara (2026) - - - -

Charlotte Simmons The Treatment (Substack) Oct 21, 2026 It wrings no more out of each detail than the natural extent of its narrative purpose, closes every thread while knowing which ones to not bother unraveling, and compiles a healthy spread of wisdom and challenges along the way. Go to Full Review One Day in Sedona (2026) - - - -

Charlotte Simmons The Treatment (Substack) Oct 14, 2026 We yearn, we deny, we crawl back, and before you know it, the yellow suitcase really is just a story — a story from a past we’ve chosen to forget. Go to Full Review The End of Oak Street (2026) 86% - -

Charlotte Simmons The Treatment (Substack) Oct 6, 2026 Fact is, severe experiences can be just as conducive to the imagination as those that more sociably stimulate and excite Go to Full Review One Eye Open (2026) - - - -

Charlotte Simmons The Treatment (Substack) Oct 6, 2026 I hope there’s a critic out there who’s able to see something in the film that I did not, and field a meaningful reading of or response to it. Go to Full Review Feel the Burn (2026) - - - -

Charlotte Simmons The Treatment (Substack) Oct 6, 2026 I think Skye has a curious nose, an open mind, and a genuine desire to help put a broken world back together. He simply needs to spend less time proving that about himself and more time trusting that we do, too. Go to Full Review Beyond the Ruins (2024) - - - -

Charlotte Simmons The Treatment (Substack) Oct 5, 2026 Go forth and take your own word for it. Go to Full Review My Movie Starring Paul Dano (2025) 91% - -

Charlotte Simmons The Treatment (Substack) Sep 27, 2026 Not only does the mechanical aspect of gameplay find kinship with the objectively-grounded mechanisms of horror and comedy in storytelling, but that resulting intersection furthermore makes for a pretty novel thematic subject... Go to Full Review Resident Evil (2026) 96% - -

Charlotte Simmons The Treatment (Substack) Sep 24, 2026 It’s a film with a considerably astute crash course on fascist politics, no punches pulled for the inspiration Nazi Germany took from America’s own misanthropic playbook, and a generally scathing indictment of institutions Go to Full Review Disposable Humanity (2025) 100% - -

Charlotte Simmons The Treatment (Substack) Sep 19, 2026 There’s the expectant aesthetic notes and well-executed practical effects (My Bloody Valentine is the first analogue that springs to my mind), but River aspires beyond that to full-blown cinematic inventiveness. Go to Full Review River (2026) 94% - -

Charlotte Simmons The Treatment (Substack) Sep 18, 2026 In a way, Kick On is a model love letter to genre cinema itself. Go to Full Review Kick On (2026) 88% - -

Charlotte Simmons The Treatment (Substack) Sep 17, 2026 A boon for Canadian cinema and safely among my all-time festival favourites. Go to Full Review Toy Gun Bandit (2026) - - - -

Charlotte Simmons The Treatment (Substack) Sep 15, 2026 Perhaps The Last Photograph, then, is Snyder turning his other primary impulse — kneejerk deconstruction — towards himself. Go to Full Review The Last Photograph (2026) 16% - -

Charlotte Simmons The Treatment (Substack) Sep 7, 2026 Its simple, offbeat premise paves the way for worlds of ideas, its visual fluency contributes heavily to both storytelling detail and genre heft Go to Full Review Influence (2023) - - - -

Charlotte Simmons The Treatment (Substack) Sep 5, 2026 But it’s the swings this minuscule film takes to realize its thematic subject matter that left me the most impressed. Go to Full Review Gone to Ground (2025) - - - -