film criticism with nothing between you and the picturehttps://nakedcinemaclub.comen© 2026 naked cinema clubhttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/wake-in-fright-1971https://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/wake-in-fright-1971A stomach-turning filmic proof that toxic masculinity is enough to give us nightmares.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThorrorrestorationqueerCatarina Bassottihttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/teenage-sex-and-death-at-camp-miasma-2026https://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/teenage-sex-and-death-at-camp-miasma-2026Jane Schoenbrun's meta-slasher takes the intellectuals who can't come by the hand and bullies us until we find the way out.Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTqueerhorrorCatarina Bassottihttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/i-play-rocky-2026https://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/i-play-rocky-2026Anthony Ippolito is a genuine find as Sylvester Stallone, but Peter Farrelly's crowd-pleaser is a copy of a copy, a greatest hits album of a much better movie.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTtiff-2026festivalsRobby Nicholshttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/deep-dives/sex-in-movies-isnt-dying-its-changinghttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/deep-dives/sex-in-movies-isnt-dying-its-changingMovies are having less sex. Are they less erotic? A take on what a sex scene is really for.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTessayqueerlatin-americanCatarina Bassottihttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/the-debut-2026https://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/the-debut-2026Jesse Eisenberg's third feature hands Julianne Moore a bit part in a community theater production and lets her play it like the role of her life.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTtiff-2026festivalsgenreRobby Nicholshttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/the-serpents-skin-2025https://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/the-serpents-skin-2025Alice Maio Mackay has the witches, the vampires, and the pink glowing eyes. What she does not have is a reason for any of it.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTqueerhorrorCatarina Bassottihttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/ink-2026https://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/ink-2026Danny Boyle's Murdoch movie is a visually striking take on the beginning of the end of the news, with its own murky moral compass.Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTtiff-2026festivalsindustryRobby Nicholshttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/wild-horse-nine-2026https://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/wild-horse-nine-2026Two killers bicker their way across Easter Island as John Malkovich chews scenery in the role of a lifetime.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTtiff-2026festivalsRobby Nicholshttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/the-last-photograph-2026https://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/the-last-photograph-2026Zack Snyder's passion project is a slog of a revenge thriller that plays to his absolute worst instincts as a filmmaker.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTtiff-2026festivalsgenreRobby Nicholshttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/the-face-of-horror-2026https://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/the-face-of-horror-2026Biller says calling her medieval ghost story camp is a way of refusing to take it seriously. She has a point about the word, and about the room it screened in.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThorrorfestivalstiff-2026Robby Nicholshttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/send-help-2026https://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/send-help-2026Raimi had a great premise: out in the jungle, who survives, you or your boss? But… he didn’t take it far enough. I couldn’t unsee this movie, but it got me thinking about the working definition of the island movie.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThorrorgenreCatarina Bassottihttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/here-the-whole-time-2026https://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/here-the-whole-time-2026It is being sold by Netflix as the Brazilian Heartstopper. It is silly. It is sugary. It is twenty years late to the body positivity trend. But maybe that’s exactly why we need it?Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTlatin-americanqueerCatarina Bassottihttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/features/seven-colorful-brazilian-queer-movieshttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/features/seven-colorful-brazilian-queer-moviesSeven vibrant Brazilian queer movies for those who want to avoid stories centered on LGBTQ precarity, from erotic thrillers to silly coming-of-age tales.Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTlatin-americanqueerlistsCatarina Bassottihttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/features/what-is-a-kisshttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/features/what-is-a-kissFilming a kiss means filming something every viewer believes they already understand. Glauber Rocha spent one silent minute proving otherwise.Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTlatin-americanCatarina Bassottihttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/features/wagner-moura-is-everywherehttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/features/wagner-moura-is-everywhereTrois Couleurs put him on the cover and called him the chameleon. Brazilian audiences have known for two decades, and mostly did not notice him doing it.Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTlatin-americanCatarina Bassottihttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/deep-dives/michael-clayton-and-the-complicity-of-the-janitorshttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/deep-dives/michael-clayton-and-the-complicity-of-the-janitorsA lawn too green to be real, a neighbor who worked at Monsanto, and the working-class janitor at the center of Michael Clayton. On who carries the blame.Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTdouble-teamRobby Nicholshttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/deep-dives/should-we-keep-watching-michael-claytonhttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/deep-dives/should-we-keep-watching-michael-claytonSoon, the films that defined a generation of millennials will be twenty years old. Revisiting some of them, we can ask which ones will still be watched.Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTdouble-teamCatarina Bassottihttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/deep-dives/the-vanishing-is-evil-and-essentialhttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/deep-dives/the-vanishing-is-evil-and-essentialThe most famous abduction in Dutch cinema happens in flat midday light, in full view, with nothing hidden — and it still makes you sign the contract.Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThorrorRobby Nicholshttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/eddington-2025https://nakedcinemaclub.com/reviews/eddington-2025A COVID-era western where the phone on the dashboard does the thinking. Aster's cruelest film, and the one most likely to be reclaimed.Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTRobby Nicholshttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/deep-dives/is-ripley-the-most-beautiful-television-series-ever-madehttps://nakedcinemaclub.com/deep-dives/is-ripley-the-most-beautiful-television-series-ever-madeSteven Zaillian and Robert Elswit built eight hours in which every gorgeous frame implicates the person enjoying it. Beauty as a moral instrument, not decor.Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 GMTRobby Nichols