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Andy Crump Paste Magazine Sep 29, 2026 6.1/10 Each of Horror Noire’s chapters brims with energy, imagination and a touch that’s personal to each of their authors; taken as a whole, the picture demonstrates that countless movies are out there waiting to be made by filmmakers hungry for a chance. Go to Full Review Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019) 100% 67%

Andy Beta Paste Magazine Sep 24, 2026 It’s back-breaking work and would make for a tiring viewing experience, but in every frame, Araya finds visual poetry, meditating on such thankless work via breathtaking shots of the landscape and intimate studies of the now-forgotten people. Go to Full Review Araya (1959) 92% 91%

Tara Bennett Paste Magazine Mar 2, 2026 B+ On the whole, Man on the Run is a visually and technically creative documentary that successfully contextualizes McCartney’s decade of metamorphosis as a person and musician via his second band, Wings. Go to Full Review Paul McCartney: Man on the Run (2025) 100% - -

Jim Vorel Paste Magazine Nov 16, 2025 7.4/10 This is a startlingly creative and skillfully assembled little movie–one that eventually overreaches to some degree, but as a viewer you wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. Go to Full Review Man Finds Tape (2025) 83% - -

Jim Vorel Paste Magazine Nov 13, 2025 6.2/10 Despite its shortcomings, the sharp-eyed viewer will still glean some interesting tidbits about the comedy legend from what is left unsaid. Go to Full Review Being Eddie (2025) 74% - -

Abby Olcese Paste Magazine Nov 13, 2025 5.5/10 Rebuilding, like many other post-Zhao movies, wants the audience to be surprised by what they find, but you never get the sense the filmmakers themselves find their locations that special, or know their characters beyond the basic identities they present. Go to Full Review Rebuilding (2025) 92% - -

Jim Vorel Paste Magazine Nov 12, 2025 2.0/10 The sheer, cumulative ugliness of Playdate, as it careens between sequences of incomprehensible action and dull-as-dirt comedy, works to do nothing so much as corrode the spirit. Go to Full Review Playdate (2025) 23% - -

Jarrod Jones Paste Magazine Nov 11, 2025 6.4/10 Wright’s flair for freakazoids remains undeniable, but his focus on rebellion obscures the cruel machinery that incites it. Go to Full Review The Running Man (2025) 61% - -

Jim Vorel Paste Magazine Nov 10, 2025 6.7/10 Trap House thus evolves into a cat-and-mouse game between the cartel murder squads on one side, the valorous DEA squad on the other, and the idiotically overconfident kids caught in the middle. Go to Full Review Trap House (2025) 52% - -

Jesse Hassenger Paste Magazine Nov 7, 2025 8.5/10 Train Dreams is set over the course of a lifetime, and in this way it is not just about the passage of time but the loss of it. Go to Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 93% - -

Jim Vorel Paste Magazine Nov 6, 2025 8.6/10 Caterpillar is a stunning piece of documentary work, both for its incredible degree of access to both its central character and his journey, and its unconventional style of presentation, which skirts the boundaries of documentary and narrative feature. Go to Full Review Caterpillar (2023) 100% - -

Jesse Hassenger Paste Magazine Nov 6, 2025 7.0/10 The movie works in its moment. It seems to know that an obvious, crowd-pleasing helping of franchise nonsense at least needs to have some kind of meat, however synthetic it may secretly be. Go to Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% - -

Jesse Hassenger Paste Magazine Nov 5, 2025 6.9/10 The movie strips away so much from Grace that at times, all that’s left is Lawrence’s raw power. She almost single-handedly keeps the movie from rambling into oblivion. Go to Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% - -

Jim Vorel Paste Magazine Nov 4, 2025 5.5/10 It’s so busy depicting the worst events of Christy's life, it has no time to sell us on the supposed sense of triumph that it insists is there. I’m unconvinced. Go to Full Review Christy (2025) 66% - -

Jesse Hassenger Paste Magazine Oct 30, 2025 6.3/10 What Jan Komasa’s film gets right is how so much right-wing radicalization, especially in upper classes, stems from status-based grievances. Go to Full Review Anniversary (2025) 68% - -

Jim Vorel Paste Magazine Oct 29, 2025 5.5/10 It’s a story that was clearly made with the best of sociopolitical intentions, but it lacks both the gumption and the know-how to translate its dissatisfaction into a truly biting critique. Go to Full Review House of Ashes (2025) 73% - -

Jim Vorel Paste Magazine Oct 28, 2025 8.4/10 ...a scintillating southern gothic crime drama bolstered by stellar performances, gritty naturalism and exquisitely gruesome payoffs. Go to Full Review Violent Ends (2025) 68% - -

Jim Vorel Paste Magazine Oct 27, 2025 5.8/10 With growing repetition, it continues going through the sleepwalking motions, squandering its stronger elements. Where it might have become a nightmare you couldn’t shake, the film ultimately vanishes in the mundane light of dawn. Go to Full Review Dream Eater (2025) 65% - -

Nadira Begum Paste Magazine Oct 27, 2025 7.5/10 After years of documentaries that have captured the brutality of life under occupation, and in the face of relentless bombardment from an Israeli state that refuses to abide by the terms of a ceasefire, raising awareness just doesn’t feel like enough. Go to Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 93% - -

Jesse Hassenger Paste Magazine Oct 24, 2025 6.7/10 Hedda is DaCosta’s most direct and purposeful adaptation yet, but like her other films, it’s missing some ineffable push past its beginnings into more expressive territory. The process of adaptation feels more confident than the conclusion. Go to Full Review Hedda (2025) 90% - -