The Trouble with Normal - The SunBreak Bob Odenkirk is firmly in his “Liam Neeson phase”: a middle-aged man reluctantly forced to kick a lot of ass in order to protect what really matters.

The trouble with NORMAL -- Chris reviews the new Ben Wheatley film, which capitalizes on Bob Odenkirk entering his middle-aged man forced to kick a lot of ass phase. It's in theaters now.

SIFF 2026: Quick Picks Roundtable, Tips, and Tricks for the 52nd Annual Seattle International Film Festival - The SunBreak Starting today, tickets and passes are now available to the public for the Seattle International Film Festival. While we’re digging through the schedule and plotting our own agendas, we thought we’d s...

Yesterday @SIFFnews.bsky.social unveiled the lineup for the 52nd Seattle International Film Festival (May 7-17). We perused and made some quick picks for what we're most excited to see.

The Christophers: A tale of fine art, forgery, and failchildren - The SunBreak Julian Sklar has followed the familiar trajectory from enfant terrible to full-blown crank. Once a renowned artist, he now spends most of his time not painting and recording Cameo-style videos—often…

THE CHRISTOPHERS: A tale of fine art, forgery, and failchildren -- Chris reviews the latest from Steven Soderbergh, an incisive and funny two-hander starring Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen. It opens Thursday at @SIFFnews.bsky.social Cinema Uptown.

Exit 8 gives us all existential (and real) dread - The SunBreak Exit 8 gives its viewers existential dread, but it's nearly impossible to look away

EXIT 8 gives us all existential (and real) dread - morgen reviews the NEON video game adaptation, now in theaters.

Faces of Death: a flawed meta horror overcomes its faults with solid scares - The SunBreak This reimagining of a notorious '70s shocker overcomes its over-reliance on tropes to deliver some world-class scares.

FACES OF DEATH: a flawed meta horror overcomes its faults with solid scares -- Tony reviews the 21st century reboot of the 1978 home video series. Starring Barbie Ferriera, the film opens in theaters tonight.

Miroirs No. 3 explores the eerie kindness of strangers - The SunBreak With something always tantalizingly out of reach, Christian Petzold’s films carry a certain rigor of academic riddles, albeit koans populated by characters nursing their own quiet tragedies. With…

📽️MIROIRS NO. 3 explores the eerie kindness of strangers -- starting Paula Beer, Christian Petzold's latest film is now playing in Seattle theaters, including a week at @siffnews.bsky.social Uptown

In A24's The Drama Robert Pattinson & Zendaya spark conversations - The SunBreak Kristoffer Borgli’s newest film, The Drama, starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, is a—you guessed it—drama masquerading as a rom-com, but with only bits and pieces of romance and comedy; instead,…

In A24's 📽️ THE DRAMA, Robert Pattinson and Zendaya spark conversations -- Marina reviews the dark rom-com (spoiler-free!), opening in theaters today.

It's a me, a new Super Mario Brothers movie - The SunBreak After leaving the theater for the latest Super Mario Brothers movie, I thought, "This movie is cool to look at, the animation is impressive, and the story is thin but harmless but it's still a fun…

📽️ SUPER MARIO GALAXY arrives in every theater on earth tonight. Chris checked it out early and like its predecessor this sequel is cool to look at, the animation is impressive, and it’s still a fun time. This time, with more Rosalina (Brie Larson) and Yoshi (Donald Glover) and some surprise voices.

Tow tries to shame corporate bullies but stops short - The SunBreak Tow is a story of persistence, the terrible reality of houselessness and how close we are to a similar fate if a corp sets their sites on us.

📽️ TOW tries to shame corporate bullies but stops short -- Morgen reviews the new Rose Byrne film, inspired by a true story and set in Seattle.

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Ready or Not: Here I Come extends the franchise with more billionaire idiots you'll love to hate - The SunBreak Ready or Not: Here I Come (2026 | USA | 108 minutes | Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett) It’s been seven years …

READY OR NOT: HERE I COME extends the franchise with more billionaire idiots you'll love to hate -- Marina has a review of the latest installation which finds Samara Weaving again trying to stay alive.
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Project Hail Mary makes a hugely winning bet on interstellar bromance - The SunBreak Project Hail Mary (2026 | USA | 256 minutes | Phil Lord & Christopher Miller) Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s hotly anticipated …

📽️ PROJECT HAIL MARY makes a hugely winning bet on interstellar bromance -- Phil Lord & Christopher Miller swing for the stars in their adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, hanging the fate of humanity on Ryan Gosling and an alien crab. Amaze amaze amaze. Opens tonight at @SIFFnews.bsky.social Downtown

📽️ UNDERTONE brims with promise, but it’s undercooked -- Despite being primed to be its target audience Tony couldn't get on the same wavelength with Ian Tuason's A24 horror movie. The Sundance sensation arrives in theaters this weekend.

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Roundtable: 2026 Oscar Picks and Predictions - The SunBreak It’s that time again! We all picked our favorites at the end of the year; the guilds have spoken; critics groups have doled out their laurels (and/or fishes); and now, nearly a quarter of the way…

It's almost time for the Academy to close out the 2025 movie season by crowning the best of the best. The SunBreak staff convened a roundtable to predict what WILL win on Sunday as well as to pontificate on what SHOULD win if we were in charge. Dig in before heading to your #Oscar Party!

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Train Dreams kicks off SFCS's Best Pacific Northwest Film Series next week at SIFF Downtown - The SunBreak Opening with a spectacular shot of a massive tree falling in the woods (shot from the perspective of the tree) in the late 1800s and spanning decades into the twentieth century, Train Dreams was one o...

Still catching up on Best Picture nominees? Another rare chance to see the PNW splendor of TRAIN DREAMS on the big screen. It's playing at Regal theaters today as part of their Oscars showcase.

Sirāt rattles the body to shock the soul - The SunBreak Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 4-14 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.

Still completing your Oscar deathrace? Catch Oliver Laxe's soul-rattling 📽️SIRĀT -- Best International Feature and Best Sound nominee -- at @SIFFnews.bsky.social Uptown ahead of this weekend's Academy Awards.

The Bride! was engrossing, unnerving and surprising - The SunBreak Long after her death, Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) takes a lead role in the story of The Bride! Together with a bored, free-spirited, but troubled young woman (also Jessie Buckley) she intends to…

📽️ THE BRIDE! was engrossing, unnerving and surprising — Morgen says that Maggie Gyllenhaal has created something incredibly impressive with her imaginative take on the Frankenstein myth. Starring Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley, it's in theaters now.

Hoppers proves Pixar still hasn't run out of good ideas - The SunBreak Unsurprisingly the studio has come up with a creative, silly, and emotional way to broach a complex subject once again. It's not the first time they've laid their heavy hand on us about the…

📽️ HOPPERS proves Pixar still hasn’t run out of good ideas -- Morgen reviews Pixar's latest, about a girl who loves animals too much. See it in theaters this weekend!

Suburban Fury allows Sarah Jane Moore to make her own myth - The SunBreak One of the best entries in last year's SIFF Northwest Connections program is situated 800 miles south on I-5 and a half century in the past: the biography of Sarah Jane Moore, one of two women who…

In Robinson Devor's entrancing SUBURBAN FURY, Sarah Jane Moore spins her own myth in recounting a life that led to her firing a bullet in the general direction of Gerald Ford. One of the stronger entries from last year's SIFF festival, it plays @SIFFnews.bsky.social film center beginning tonight.

Pillion brings BDSM to the multiplex - The SunBreak Who could have possibly guessed that the squirmiest elements of watching a meek all-grown-up Dudley Dursley (Harry Melling) inadvertently stumble his way into a submissive arrangement with a godlike…

📽️ PILLION brings BDSM to the multiplex -- we were charmed by Harry Lighton's unconventional rom-com starring Harry Melling & Alexander Skarsgård at Telluride. It motors into Seattle theaters this weekend.

How to Make a Killing taps the breaks on the Glen Powell Experience - The SunBreak John Patton Ford taps Glen Powell to star in his loose re-imagining of a 1949 black comedy in which an outcast needs to eliminate everyone on the family tree ahead of him in the line of succession to…

📽️HOW TO MAKE A KILLING taps the breaks on the Glen Powell Experience -- The Glenaissance hits a speed bump in this frustratingly dull death march comedy of murders.

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions explodes the documentary as visual album - The SunBreak Kahlil Joseph's multi-sensory film takes inspiration for W.E.B. Du Bois's dream -- unfinished at the time of his death, but realized decades later by a group of scholars led by Henry Louis Gates --…

Just noticed that Kahlil Joseph's outstanding visual album as documentary mixtape 📽️BLKNWS: TERMS AND CONDITIONS, one of the stars of last year's SIFF, is back in Seattle with some showings this weekend at Northwest Film Forum. Revisit it or see it for the first time on Saturday and Sunday.

Crime 101 strikes gold with Chris Hemsworth masterminding freeway robberies - The SunBreak Bart Layton’s newest crime thriller, Crime 101, has nearly everything going for it. A stacked cast led by Chris Hemsworth, beautiful cinematography from Erik Wilson, an intriguing story adapted from…

Catching up with last weekend's releases, Marina has a review of Bart Layton's latest, 📽️CRIME 101, which features Chris Hemsworth masterminding a series of Los Angeles freeway robberies. With supporting performances from Mark Ruffalo and Halle Berry, the film is now in theaters.

Can Diner Customers Save the World in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die? Maybe... - The SunBreak Gore Verbinski's comic sci-fi adventure reignites the director's anarchic wit, even as it hits some surprisingly affecting emotional beats.

"Can Diner Customers Save the World in 📽️ GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE? Maybe…" -- Tony digs into Gore Verbinski's latest, finding the popcorn-friendly director at the top of his proverbial game. Now playing in Seattle theaters.

Similarly mind-blowing and uncategorizable, yet not in regular release beyond city-by-city one-off roadshows: Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie. Leveraging decades of footage from the episodic work of Toronto comedy duo Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol, its an ingenious deeply Canadian big-screen reinvention of Back to the Future, impossible stuntwork, prank show style incorporation of everyday people, and a riotously enjoyable movie to see with a crowd. I hadn’t seen a frame of their TV show and couldn’t stop laughing. Stay tuned for a 2026 release, you’ve got plenty of time to catch up on the series.

One of the best films of 2025 finally makes it across the northern border from Canada: NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE parachutes into Seattle theaters this weekend. Treat yourself and see it with a crowd!

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Even Doubting Dennis thinks the 5th Avenue Theatre's SPAMALOT is hysterical - The SunBreak Through this weekend, the Monty Python stage musical SPAMALOT can be seen at the 5th Avenue Theatre. It was uproariously funny. It is probably the funniest play I have ever seen, which includes The…

"Even Doubting Dennis thinks the 5th Avenue Theatre’s SPAMALOT is hysterical" -- Chris reviews the uproariously funny Monty Python production that's now playing at the 5th Avenue Theatre.

📽️ Wuthering Heights in bad decline -- Literary fidelity be damned, Chris finds a lot to admire in Emerald Fennell's adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel. Starring Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie, it opens in theaters everywhere just in time for Valentine's Day.

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Brat Summer is Dead and The Moment is here to bury it. - The SunBreak In which the only rational response to sudden intense fame is to fictionalize a version even more absurd to find some glancing approximation of the honest truth.

Brat Summer is dead and THE MOMENT is here to bury it. After making an oddly divisive splash at Sundance (I love it / I don't care), the Charli XCX mockumentary arrives in Seattle this weekend, including at @SIFFnews.bsky.social Uptown.

The block of new online tickets -- limited to audience and grand jury awards -- can be found here and are disappearing quickly!

Sundance 2026: Award Winners and Online Screenings Announced - The SunBreak Sundance 2026 is in full-swing in Park City, Salt Lake City, and -- beginning on January 29 -- online

Sundance announced its Award winners this morning -- Audience's loved JOSEPHINE, AMERICAN PACHUCO, ONE IN A MILLION, and HOLD ONTO ME; Juries also loved JOSEPHINE, NUISANCE BEAR, SHAME & MONEY, and TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN. Along with honors for filmmakers, awards mean more screenings for audiences!