Floating World

Dustin Chang Floating World Oct 7, 2026 The film is way too earnest, way too cringy and definitely doesn’t justify its running time. Hamaguchi desperately needs a script editor. Go to Full Review All of a Sudden (2026) 93% - -

Dustin Chang Floating World Oct 7, 2026 As usual, Mungiu presents characters navigating through our overly complicated current world, where any system is less than perfect and moral grey areas aplenty. Go to Full Review Fjord (2026) 91% - -

Dustin Chang Floating World Sep 27, 2026 Quietly devastating and deeply moving, Rose presents the hypocrisy of its time and unforgiving nature of rigid patriarchal society without ever being too sentimental or preachy. Go to Full Review Rose (2026) 97% - -

Dustin Chang Floating World Sep 12, 2026 Hope is pretty much extremely visceral chase scenes strung together with iffy rural Korean humor thrown in. The film's many, unrelenting and prolonged car/horse chase sequences are truly impressive and need to be seen in theaters on the big screen. Go to Full Review Hope (2026) 79% - -

Dustin Chang Floating World Aug 21, 2026 It is true that Holland's Kafka is not a caricature of the famous writer but more of a person, but in doing so misses the mystique about the man who was one of the most influential writers of all time. Go to Full Review Franz (2025) 75% - -

Dustin Chang Floating World Aug 11, 2026 Featuring working class characters and their circumstances that Jenkin is familiar with growing up, he beautifully crafts a sort of a low-fi sci-fi with sodden social realism. Go to Full Review Rose of Nevada (2025) 92% - -

Dustin Chang Floating World Aug 8, 2026 Schoenbrun seems to be finally letting it loose and just having fun- embracing their queerness fully and sexuality all out in the open, matching the main theme of the movie. Go to Full Review Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) 94% - -

Dustin Chang Floating World Aug 8, 2026 Again, as all of his films, is an invigorating, fascinating and thoughtful inquiry into our existence. I really hope Herzog keeps making these until the end. Go to Full Review Theater of Thought (2022) 75% - -

Dustin Chang Floating World Jul 25, 2026 80's J-pop idol, Yakushimaru shines as a likeable, ambitious aspiring acccress who would kill for a role. Go to Full Review W's Tragedy (1984) - - - -

Dustin Chang Floating World Jul 25, 2026 Sophy Romvary's semi-autobiographical debut feature beautifully displays yearning for understanding and closeness that was never meant to be. Some people in our lives are unreachable however we try, but it doesn't mean we don't love them any less. Go to Full Review Blue Heron (2025) 97% - -

Dustin Chang Floating World Jun 1, 2026 3/5 It's just vibes, distorted and context free, just like the inhabitants of the backrooms. But just like the original digital catnips Parsons created, I want more. Go to Full Review Backrooms (2026) 86% - -

Dustin Chang Floating World May 30, 2026 The Man Who Stole the Sun balances on the tight rope between not-so-serious and serious, full on satire and serious inquiry into the nation's psyche - the miraculous post-war economic development and consumerism, the generational gap. Go to Full Review The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979) - - 93%

Dustin Chang Floating World May 27, 2026 André Øvredal, created a little corner for himself in the American horror film scene with successful modest budget projects over the years. And his latest, Passenger, is a tight, surprisingly good horror film that has plenty of scares. Go to Full Review Passenger (2026) 44% - -

Dustin Chang Floating World May 18, 2026 Narratively The Wizard loses steam on the way to its fatalistic, unsatisfying ending. But again, Assayas accomplishes deciphering the complicated recent history and reflects on where we find ourselves, at this chaotic, morally ugly present. Go to Full Review The Wizard of the Kremlin (2025) 44% - -

Dustin Chang Floating World May 8, 2026 Delmar and Jacobs build a gentle rhythm through repetition of a gorgeous surroundings from sunrise to sunset and everything inbetween. It lulls viewers into a warm, comfortable and inviting place, Go to Full Review Variations on a Theme (2026) - - - -

Dustin Chang Floating World May 7, 2026 Once the mechanics of action are laid out- which takes some time, the film begins to click in its scary ways. And as with Caveat and Oddity, Hokum is scary, good fun. Go to Full Review Hokum (2026) 90% - -

Dustin Chang Floating World Apr 12, 2026 The Love That Remains emphasizes that we live with nature and all our incongruities are part of the elements, not separate entities, nothing more. Pálmason humbles you in different ways in the presence of nature. Go to Full Review The Love That Remains (2025) 95% - -

Dustin Chang Floating World Apr 12, 2026 Exit 8 has a potential to have millions of ways to explore the existential dread and be the creepiest, most effective modern horror film. But instead, Kawamura settles on the Spielbergian narrative. I miss the late 90s, early 2000 J-horror haydays. Go to Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 92% - -

Dustin Chang Floating World Mar 21, 2026 It's a great debut by an intense artist who is serious about filmmaking and its messages. Go to Full Review The Chronology of Water (2025) 91% - -

Dustin Chang Floating World Feb 10, 2026 Dan Trachtenberg continues the winning streak with Predator: Badlands is from the alien trophy hunter's point of view with his hefty Shakespearean backstory with the Oedipal complex and brotherhood and betrayal and revenge and so on. Go to Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% - -