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SINephile | No Movie Escapes Judgment

From a onetime Criterion insider comes a bold new film commentary site with range: scorching movie reviews, sharp reappraisals, genre crash courses, and a satirical scoring system tracking the fate of the cinematic experience.

Now Showing

Drops Saturday. Weekend-ready reviews of new-ish releases—fate determined on the SINemeter.

Playback

Midweek drops. Rediscoveries and revisits—where memory meets scrutiny and taste evolves.

Split Screen

Filed occasionally. Two films. One screen. Pairings that shouldn’t work—until they do.

Crash Courses

Monthly. One-week primers on genres, movements, and stagecraft—minus the self-seriousness.

Ctrl+Alt+Decode

Semi-monthly. Cultural dispatches and sharp essays that flip the script and change the aspect ratio.

Cinema DEFCON

As streaming dates drop, so do the scores. Stay updated on the state of theatrical cinema’s collapse.