Taking an icky conceit and twisting it to deviously crowd-pleasing ends, Obsession is dauntingly disturbing while also skillfully amusing and thrilling. (more)

Some films consciously engage with the present. Others function more like lightning rods, pulling in ambient bursts of cultural electricity and channeling them into films that crackle with the energy of their times. With “Obsession,” Curry Barker has made one of the latter. The 26-year-old former YouTuber’s second feature distills the ambient gender-based resentment of 2020s internet culture into a horror film that could be described as an EC Comics-style pulp morality tale, if the director knew what that was. (more)