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Late Shift is like Boiling Point or The Bear, but set in a hospital, and it's one of the most tense movies I've watched this year
By Emily Garbutt published
Big Screen Spotlight Big Screen Spotlight | New Swiss drama Late Shift brings the hospital procedural to the big screen, to jaw-clenching effect

In the midst of summer blockbuster season, my favorite movie of the year so far is a moving comedy-drama with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
By Emily Garbutt published
Big Screen Spotlight Big Screen Spotlight | Eva Victor's Sorry, Baby is a funny and devastating portrait of a life turned upside down

I loved the folk horror elements of 28 Years Later, and this new nightmarish medieval movie follows in its footsteps in all the right ways
By Emily Garbutt published
Big Screen Spotlight Big Screen Spotlight | New historical drama Harvest is a different kind of folk horror

New indie horror Abraham's Boys: A Dracula Story is Frailty meets There Will Be Blood with a haunting focus on family – and I have no complaints
By Lauren Milici published
Big Screen Spotlight Big Screen Spotlight | Titus Welliver discusses his family-focused vampire drama

It may feature corpses, missing limbs, and AI, but with The Shrouds, legendary director David Cronenberg has made the ultimate meditation on grief: "To me, there is no afterlife"
By Lauren Milici published
Big Screen Spotlight Big Screen Spotlight | David Cronenberg discusses his most personal movie yet

30 years after its release, I'm still convinced Clueless is the gold standard for teen movies
By Emily Garbutt published
Big Screen Spotlight Big Screen Spotlight | My favorite teen movie is returning to theaters, and rewatching it has convinced me that it's a timeless classic

A new Hong Kong drama about three d/Deaf friends brings sign language to the big screen in a different way
By Emily Garbutt published
Big Screen Spotlight Big Screen Spotlight | The Way We Talk is a film about finding communication and community

A new Icelandic drama with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score provides one of the most emotionally honest depictions of grief I've seen in a long time
By Emily Garbutt published
Big Screen Spotlight Big Screen Spotlight | When the Light Breaks follows one woman over 24 hours as she tries to make sense of the worst day of her life

23 years ago, Danny Boyle's grimy horror 28 Days Later set a new standard for zombie apocalypse movies – and I'm hoping 28 Years Later will match it
By Amy West published
Big Screen Spotlight Big Screen Spotlight | Revisiting the 2002 flick has me excited to see what Boyle and returning writer Alex Garland has in store for us with 28 Years Later
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