Independent Film Blog
Est. 2010 · Indie Cinema Daily
Vol. XIV · No. 287
THE ARCHIVE · 2010 — 2025
Fourteen years of independent film criticism, kept in one searchable place. Every festival premiere, every overlooked debut, every late-night discovery — filed, dated, and written by critics who actually picked up the phone.
THIS WEEK'S REVIEWS
REVIEW · 1,940 WORDS
Tsapatoris turns a 97-minute bus ride into the most patient American indie of the year. Our critic spent two afternoons with the director and the editor to make sense of its radical patience.
REVIEW · 1,610 WORDS
REVIEW · 2,220 WORDS
REVIEW · 1,480 WORDS
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The deepest searchable index of independent film criticism on the web — faceted so a cinephile, a programmer, or a curious browser can find what they actually came for.
BY YEAR
14
Years of continuous coverage, 2010 to 2025
BY FESTIVAL
22
International festivals covered on the ground each year
BY GENRE
38
From slow cinema to regional documentary to formal experiment
BY COUNTRY
9
Critic correspondents filing from nine countries
BY CRITIC
49
Staff critics and contributing writers, each with a body of work
BY FORMAT
6
Features, shorts, episodic, web-native, restoration, repertory
Indexed alongside a curated database of 6,200+ indie films with critic ratings — the largest free public index of its kind.
HOW WE REVIEW
Every Independent Film Blog review is written by a working critic on staff — eleven full-time, thirty-eight contributing — and none of them are anonymous. We commission interviews with at least two members of a film's creative team before we file, which is why our average review runs past 1,800 words. We do not aggregate, we do not syndicate, and we do not run algorithmic summaries of other critics' takes.
If a film premieres at one of the 22 festivals we cover annually, we aim to publish our review within seventy-two hours of the screening — a practice we started at Sundance in 2011 and one that has since become standard across the indie beat. The archive you are reading is the cumulative record of that work: 12,600+ original articles, written by people who sign their names.
THE FULL INDEX
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