Night Nurse is the rare film that features exactly zero characters. Oh, there are plenty of people, to be sure. Most of them even have names! But that’s approximately where their definition stops. Each is a nurse at the same assisted living facility, the kind where the patients have complete freedom to roam and drive […]
Tag: IFC Films
Forbidden Fruits Review
Forbidden Fruits starts as a riff on Mean Girls, but set in a mall (somehow still thriving in 2026) at a store halfway between Forever 21 and Nordstrom, called “Forever Eden”. The “Plastics” are replaced by the “Fruits”, Apple (Lili Reinhart), Cherry (Victoria Pedretti), and Fig (Alexandra Shipp), twenty-somethings whose views of social dynamics and […]
Good Boy Review
Good Boy is Ben Leonberg’s directorial debut, and it had a simple yet effective premise: a horror film told from a dog’s point of view. Indy and his owner, Todd (Shane Jensen), move to the countryside after Todd inherits his grandfather’s home. However, Indy senses a dark presence in the house, leading to him being […]
The Novice Review
The quest for perfection is an elusive one and it serves as the subject of the indie drama The Novice. Alex Dall (Isabelle Fuhrman) is a college freshman who joins the university rowing team as a novice. Her goal is to master the sport and join the varsity team. However, her goal becomes a single-minded […]
The Day Shall Come Review
Chris Morris made a real splash with his directional debut Four Lions, a dark comedy about four idiots who want to become suicide bombers. After nine years he returns to filmmaking with his follow-up film The Day Shall Come. Moses Al Shabz (Marchant Davis) is the founder of the Star of Six mission in Miami. He preaches […]





