From the Front Row

Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Oct 29, 2026 3.5/4 At only 82 minutes, Fatherland may be brief...but it's a tightly wound powder keg whose skill and urgency are hard to shake. Go to Full Review Fatherland (2026) 93% - -

Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Oct 24, 2026 4/4 A virtuosic piece of Brechtian theatre that feels in constant conversation with itself; fully aware of its own moralism and questioning its own relevance as it seeks truth in a world where tragedy has become farce. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Oct 7, 2026 3/4 Feels like a sapphic, Appalachian remix of Moonlight and Brokeback Mountain, striking familiar notes but with a fresh perspective that sets the film apart. Go to Full Review Whistle Down Wind (2026) - - - -

Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Sep 24, 2026 2.5/4 Rinko Kikuchi is so good in Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!, that it may be easy to overlook how messy the film around her is. Go to Full Review Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) 91% - -

Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Sep 24, 2026 3.5/4 Brilliantly constructed; propulsive and pulse-pounding right from the jump, keeping us on the edge of our seats in endlessly creative ways. Go to Full Review Resident Evil (2026) 96% - -

Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Sep 15, 2026 2.5/4 Fans will doubtless enjoy seeing this cast reunited, but it brings very little of note to the table, fading into the background as a pleasant, if ultimately forgettable, footnote to its more popular predecessor. Go to Full Review Practical Magic 2 (2026) 36% - -

Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Sep 15, 2026 3.5/4 As silly as it is exhilarating; a big, bold, uncompromising vision that’s unlike anything else out there right now. Go to Full Review Hope (2026) 80% - -

Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Sep 5, 2026 1.5/4 A flavorless thriller that doesn't even have the decency to embrace the pulpy outlandishness of its concept. Go to Full Review The Whisper Man (2026) 45% - -

Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Sep 4, 2026 2/4 It’s the perfect film for the streaming era – just another piece of content designed to be consumed easily and forgotten just as quickly. Go to Full Review Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026) 60% - -

Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Sep 1, 2026 3/4 There’s something quietly beautiful about Scott’s ruminations here, unafraid to be thoughtful and earnest in a time that seems to flagrantly reject both. Go to Full Review The Dog Stars (2026) 41% - -

Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Aug 21, 2026 3/4 Slyly subverts transphobic rhetoric and repurposes it into something charming and surprisingly wholesome. Go to Full Review She's the He (2025) 100% - -

Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Aug 20, 2026 3.5/4 A funny and loving ode to the slasher movies of yore (even the bad ones) and a tortured act of self examination that continues Schoenbrun's fascinating interrogation of media and identity. Go to Full Review Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) 94% - -

Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Aug 19, 2026 3/4 One of the summer’s nicest surprises, even if the gaps seem to tease a very different movie than the one we ultimately got. Go to Full Review The End of Oak Street (2026) 86% - -

Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Jul 28, 2026 3.5/4 A work of mighty vision and thunderous power worthy of the epic text that inspired it, yet built for a brave new world yet again on the precipice of great upheaval and generational failure. Go to Full Review The Odyssey (2026) 94% - -

Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Jul 28, 2026 3.5/4 Cholodenko nails the faded milieu of queer artists, lovers, and hangers-on intersecting through sex, drugs, and art. Go to Full Review High Art (1998) 80% 45%

Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Jun 26, 2026 3/4 By the time Disclosure Day reaches its end, it's hard not to, if just for a moment, believe that a better world might just be possible. Go to Full Review Disclosure Day (2026) 79% - -

Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Jun 25, 2026 3.5/4 An extraordinarily confident debut, a deeply resonant and incisive exploration of women’s interiority that speaks with a whisper and hits like a powder keg. Go to Full Review Forastera (2025) 90% - -

Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Jun 24, 2026 3.5/4 This gorgeous cinematic Rorschach blot is a stylish and spiritually invigorating work of surrealist beauty Go to Full Review CAMP (2025) 89% - -

Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Jun 12, 2026 3.5/4 A deeply romantic and painfully honest exploration of memory, regret, and finding oneself in a world that feels stagnant. Go to Full Review Again Again (2026) 100% - -

Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Jun 9, 2026 1.5/4 Little more than the death rattle of a once cutting-edge franchise, now creatively decimated by the arrogance of its creators. Go to Full Review Scream 7 (2026) 29% - -