SIFF 2026 Review: TELL EVERYONE Directed by: Alli Haapasalo @siffnews.bsky.social @seattlecritics.bsky.social

SIFF 2026 Review: AGAIN AGAIN Directed by: Mia Moore and Heather Ballish @siffnews.bsky.social @seattlecritics.bsky.social

SIFF 2026 Review: ASSETS & LIABILITIES Directed by: Zach Weintraub @siffnews.bsky.social @seattlecritics.bsky.social

SIFF 2026 Review: BIRDS OF WAR Directed by: Janay Boulous and Abd Aldakee Habak @siffnews.bsky.social @seattlecritics.bsky.social

What is the best movie at the multiplex and why is it THE SHEEP DETECTIVES? Hugh Jackman brings gentleness as a shepherd who reads mysteries to his flock each night. When a real-life mystery occurs, the flock use what they’ve learned to try and help solve a crime. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

SIFF: EIGHT BRIDGES (James Benning, 2026) Link: theinsert.substack.com/p/siff-eight...

#ICYMI or just want to read it in print, my review of Sophy Romvari’s spectacular BLUE HERON is in today’s @seattletimes.com. Read it then go see in Seattle at AMC Pacific Place or, if you're up north in Bellingham, at the lovely @pickfordfilmcenter.bsky.social📽️ www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

Hey Seattle, turns out it's a doubly big day for all you Charli XCX fans as her latest and greatest film yet, ERUPJCA, is opening today @nwfilmforum.bsky.social. Highly, highly recommend going to check it out as it's only grown on me more & more with each passing day. Read my full rave review below📽️

On The Librarians, in which Kim Snyder spends as much time on the plight of public libraries as the entities working to destroy them. "Snyder proves that the entire effort is coordinated, not least since the campaigns follow the same playbook, no matter the community." @seattlecritics.bsky.social

For better and worse Billie Eilish’s new concert film with James Cameron brings fans into the arena tour -- Josh reviews an experiment in 3D filmmaking that shows audiences what it's like to be among screaming fans at the BILLIE EILISH -- HIT ME HARD AND SOFT TOUR. It's in theaters this weekend.

Maybe this latest iteration of #MortalKombat just isn’t for me? It happens. 🤷‍♀️ #Mortalkombat2 #Filmsky moviefreak.com/mortal-komba...

For The Seattle Met, profiled the emcee with a voice of gold Ruben Little Head who can be seen in Sky Hopkina’s stellar new documentary POWOW PEOPLE, which is playing at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 16 and 17. Go see it and read my piece below 📽️ www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-cul...

#SIFF2026: It’s time for the Seattle International Film Festival! Opening night is tonight, with Boots Riley’s wild I LOVE BOOSTERS getting the party started… Get those coordinated outfits ready! 😀 #SIFF #ILoveBoosters @siffnews.bsky.social moviepie.com/siff-2026-1-...

Sam Raimi's 'Send Help' crash lands on Hulu today. It's a callback to his early horror movies with a survival thriller bent with an excellent leading turn from the inimitable Rachel McAdams. Definitely worth your time. silverscreenriot.com/send-help-re...

The @siffnews.bsky.social effect is upon us: the Seattle International Film Festival opens tonight with I LOVE BOOSTERS and runs through May 17. We have some more picks for films showing during the fest's opening weekend and early days.

🎉NEW BYLINE ALERT 🎉: For CHUM News (@chum.news), I put together a fun map of how to navigate the Seattle International Film Festival this year with a recommendation of one great film to see per day plus what you should then eat and/or do after 📽️ Give that a read here: www.chum.news/chumnewssiff...

For me, 'Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)' was a painful experience. If you like concert films where the screaming, crying, off-key-singing fans are as much of a show as the main attraction, it may however be for you. Also, it's in 3D.. silverscreenriot.com/billie-eilis...

This MORTAL KOMBAT II asks "what if Mortal Kombat Annihilation was ALMOST good?" It has its moments, but far from a flawless victory. www.cinema-crazed.com/blog/2026/05... #mortalkombat #mortalkombat2 #moviereview #karlurban

@siffnews.bsky.social begins today with Boots Riley's I Love Boosters (tonight with the filmmaker in attendance). My first review: Taratoa Stappard's Māori Gothic horror, Mārama, with an excellent Ariāna Osborne. Plays May 8 and 9 (and returns for a post-fest run May 21). @seattlecritics.bsky.social

NEW: The SIFF Cinema Workers Union says management is delaying contract bargaining until after the festival and are proposing deel cuts to wages, benefits, and hours that'd leave many of their members in "financial desperation." 📽️ My story for @thestranger.com: www.thestranger.com/uncategorize...

New Experimental Shorts: Viktoria Schmid, Johann Lurf, and Prismatic Ground Link: theinsert.substack.com/p/new-experi...

Seattle, your chance to see Sophy Romvari’s astounding, all-time great feature debut BLUE HERON is now here. It makes AMC Pacific Place the place to be this week. It's not just the best of 2026 thus far, but a film for the ages📽️ My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review @seattletimes.com: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

Though it has a rocky opening 45 minutes that make the film feel like a haphazardly edited sitcom, once THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 settles down, the effortless chemistry of Streep, Hathaway, Blunt, and Tucci takes hold and the movie eventually works its magic. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

Green Is the New Red traces the way Paraguay's right-wing leadership segued from the torture/imprisonment/murder of left-wing activists to the persecution of indigenous people and peasant farmers today. Well worth a watch. @epfmedia.bsky.social @seattlecritics.bsky.social Link: tinyurl.com/5n93tht8

I admit, I wasn't the biggest fan of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (2006). Its legacy sequel, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 (2026) did little to sway that opinion. My review. macguff.in/film-reviews... @seattlecritics.bsky.social @ofcs.bsky.social #Filmsky

Went back on KUOW’s Seattle Now to talk all things SIFF @siffnews.bsky.social as the fest kicks off this week and offer my must-see recs (I LOVE BOOSTERS, I WANT YOUR SEX, THE INVITE, AGAIN AGAIN, ASSETS & LIABILITIES, THE LIFE WE LEAVE, and POWWOW PEOPLE)📽️ Listen here: www.kuow.org/stories/at-s...

For @ebertvoices.bsky.social, I spoke to Adam Scott & Damian McCarthy about HOKUM. We talked its secret Washington origins (it involves Weezer), merging American cinema of old and Irish folk horror, comedy vs. horror, finding the ending, and more 📽️ Read that here: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/h...

📽️ THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 gets the gang back together for a nostalgic strut down the runway -- Marina reviews the long-awaited sequel, starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Stanley Tucci. In theaters this weekend.

Program Notes: An Evening with Sky Hopinka Link: theinsert.substack.com/p/program-no...

Will have more on it soon, but the best new movie to see this week is Damian McCarthy’s chilling new horror HOKUM. It's not just McCarthy’s best, but the best movie performance Adam Scott has given to date. It's scary, funny, and, to me, surprisingly moving. Read my review below then go see it Fri📽️

Prepare your pitchforks + come for my head because...this ain't it. ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2′ returns to high fashion glitterati with Streep, Hathaway, Blunt, and Tucci for a sequel that trades the original’s sharp class anxiety for boardroom trading. silverscreenriot.com/the-devil-we...

Member reviews: Hokum -- Matt Oakes

Oh yeah, I wrote about this movie. Some heisters use an unexploded WWII bomb as cover to do some heisting. Fun thriller. Solid B. www.thelastthingisee.com/2026/04/fuze...

‘Omaha’ is now in theaters. Check out my exclusive interview with star John Magaro (First Cow, Past Lives.) silverscreenriot.com/john-magaro-...

Of the two biopics in theaters this weekend, I SWEAR is the one which earned three BAFTAs this past February and gives viewers an authentic must-see performance from BAFTA winner Robert Aramayo. Now in limited release - hopefully I SWEAR is at a theater near you. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

Can’t get #MotherMary out of my head. David Lowery’s music and art-driven melodrama is a tsunami of emotional confrontations, and features a pair of titanic performances from Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel that may be the best either has ever given. moviefreak.com/mother-mary-2026-movie-review/

I tried friends, but MICHAEL is as surface-level, aggravating, and paint-by-numbers as a movie can get. While Jaafar Jackson will turn heads with his portrayal of his uncle, MICHAEL is so carefully crafted, it becomes propaganda. Now playing at theaters everywhere. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

Despite a familiar narrative structure, I SWEAR works in its earnestness and heart. My review. macguff.in/film-reviews... @seattlecritics.bsky.social @ofcs.bsky.social #Filmsky

OMAHA is such a dour and sad story that it muddies its themes. It feels calibrated to bum us out and ruin our day. My review. macguff.in/film-reviews... @seattlecritics.bsky.social @ofcs.bsky.social #Filmsky

OVER YOUR DEAD BODY, Jorma Taccone's new dark comedy (with some impressive horror violence) mostly works despite some pacing and energy oddity. Can't go wrong with blood covered Samara Weaving! www.cinema-crazed.com/blog/2026/04... #overyourdeadbody #moviereview #samaraweaving #horror

Feel like I’m just piling on at this point but, sorry to say, #Michael is a bad movie. Great music. Some star-making performances (potentially). But it’s still a bad movie. moviefreak.com/michael-2026-movie-review/

So much talk about the big bad release this week when the actual best movie you should go see is THE STRANGER. Thus, #ICYMI or want to read it in print, sharing my review of François Ozon’s adaptation of the Albert Camus novel once more. Read it then go see it @siffnews.bsky.social 📽️ bit.ly/4cwcFq7

Throw Down is playing at the @metrographnyc.bsky.social this weekend, part of their terrific "Sukiyaki Bebop" series. Here's the essay I wrote about it and Johnnie To for the film's @criterion.bsky.social release www.criterion.com/current/post...

Member reviews: Mother Mary -- Bob Foster "With mostly Hathaway and Coel playing off of each other, they are astounding. The pair gives gripping, full-bodied performances." www.cinema-crazed.com/blog/2026/04...

The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh), Everything Else is Noise (Nicolas Pereda) Link: theinsert.substack.com/p/the-christ...

David Lowery is starting to look like Anton LaVey, so it makes sense that he would decide to get well and truly weird, but Mother Mary didn't click for me. Has its moments, though Colossal and Eileen were better showcases for Anne H's dark side. Opens in Seattle today. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

#HotDocs26: Great things come in small packages, and these superb short #documentaries — including THE BAKER'S HOTLINE, FLETCHER STREET, OH WHALE, SOME KIND OF REFUGE and more — deserve a spot on your @hotdocs.bsky.social to-see list! moviepie.com/hot-docs-202...

Cold War reviews here www.thechinesecinema.com/tag/longman-...

WAKE UP KOGONADA NATION: There is now a first teaser of ZI, his poetic, entrancing, & quietly exhilarating new film starring Michelle Mao, Haley Lu Richardson, & Jin Ha. It's a real wonder, like LA JETÉE meets BEFORE SUNRISE. Watch below then read my rave review 📽️: www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

'Mother Mary' is one of the year's most audacious efforts, a captivating mix of breakup song and ghost story with two outstanding performances from Michaela Cole and Anne Hathaway. It might not dazzle everyone but really delivered for me. silverscreenriot.com/mother-mary-...