Valentine (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
A couple tries to work through one half exploring their gender or considering transitioning.
Short
Films in this category aren’t full-length, an hour or more, movies, but shorts.
Dogfriend (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
What was supposed to be a fun sexual encounter with a little romance turns into an unwanted conversation about race.
Work (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Struggling with moving on after the end of a notable relationship, Gabriela works to make ends meet and deal with their ex moving on.
Love Death + Robots: Jibaro (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While Jibaro is beautiful, it is dull enough to pause, do something else, and then return to.
Love Death + Robots: In Vaulted Hall Entombed (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In a short so good you wish you were playing it, In Vaulted Halls Entombed feels like a series of cut scenes from a AAA game.
Love Death + Robots: Mason’s Rats (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Vermin are invading forces, and Mason decides, with them escalating things, he is going to match their energy and surpass them.
Love Death + Robots: Swarm (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Swarm is one of the first from Volume III which pushes you to want a sequel if/when we get a volume IV.
Love Death + Robots: Kill Team Kill (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Government soldiers face off against a mecha bear that has killed dozens without mercy.
Love Death + Robots: Night of the Mini Dead (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Night of the Mini Dead gives you Robot Chicken vibes in the best way.
Love, Death + Robots: The Very Pulse of the Machine (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Thanks to bad timing, two astronauts get stuck on one of Jupiter’s moons.
Love, Death + Robots: Bad Travelling (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
A crew trying to deliver oil encounters a giant crustucian which wants safe passage to a local island to feed. Will they sacrifice others to save themselves?
LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS: Three Robots: Exit Strategies – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Love Death + Robots produces its first sequel, and it features the three comedic robots continuing their exploration of the remains of human civilization.
Blink (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
This short release by Sony, alongside giving us another notable performance from Sophie Thatcher, also pushes you to hope more shorts might be released on Sony’s channel.
Heart Shot (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Heart Shot feels like a cruel tease of a show or film Netflix should have financed already.
Wake (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
At a wake for a mutual friend, the most estranged of the four seeks out the dead friend’s now ex.
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
An older lesbian, who was at the forefront of the activism for LGBT+ equality, finds herself getting to see the fruits of her labor through the youth.
Sandstorm/Mulaqat (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
An older man, who has somehow seduced a high schooler, takes advantage of cultural and religious customs and values to coerce a meeting.
Night Bus (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In this unfolding mystery, you may find yourself underestimating what will happen – thus leading to your mouth gaping by the end.
Daddy’s Girl (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
A father and daughter bond while moving her out of a rather swanky apartment.
F^¢K ’€M R!GHT B@¢K (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
On the way to their dream, a rapper named Sammy finds their day job threatened thanks to someone with a fatty.
Champ (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
After practice, the girls’ basketball team gets together to play video games and talk, leading to a reveal that calls for revenge.
Huella (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In this light horror short, a granddaughter finds herself facing her grandmother whose dying day was missed only by her.
The Right Words (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The Right Words will have you twisting in your seat and glad you don’t speak French so you can block out everything but the subtitles to see how everything goes down.
Hallelujah (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In this emotional short, two men, unprepared to raise kids, contemplate if they will take on their niece and nephew’s rearing.
Breathe (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Is it a con, or are they legit? That is what is explored in Breathe as a father/daughter duo attempt to do an exorcism.
Shark (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The comedic stylings of Shark will make you clamor for a full-length film featuring the prank-loving couple of Jack and Sofie.
Swallow The Universe (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Swallow The Universe is pure “What The F***” as it tells the story about a young person fighting off gods and animals who want their face.
Meal On The Plate (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In a way, Meal On The Plate seems to poke fun at those who have an aversion to vegetables and makes for a precautionary tale you could show children (of a certain age).
BUMP (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Prep for a series of chuckled thanks to Bump.
Training Wheels (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In this awkward comedy, a socially inept woman decides to call on an escort to help her understand what
Chilly & Milly (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In this tearjerker, a son talks to his mom about the love of her life, his father.
Appendage (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In this gross-out horror, our lead’s insecurities grow into an appendage hell-bent on destroying its host.
Reasons (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The voice presented in Reasons pulls you between wanting a full-length movie focused on Mercy’s story and/or a series.
Therapy (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Therapy is the kind of short that just starts getting good when it ends.
The Last Days (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Despite a rather interesting premise, The Last Days devolves into a simple poem that acts as a reminder of racial injustice for Black people in the UK.
Noor & Layla (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
A chance encounter leads to an unexpected relationship as faith creates an instant bond, but what’s to happen once the fun is over?
More Happiness (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
More Happiness is a bit strange and doesn’t really venture to demystify itself.
The First Time (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The First Time gives you webcomic-turned short web series vibes, but it is not long enough.
Carino (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In this three-minute short, we get an innocent and adorable showing of the lengths someone will go through for a crush.
