Menu
© 2026 The Couch Critic
Discover and rate the latest now playing movies
In the middle of the night, a boy is startled by the sound of breaking glass and the presence of a creature in his home. With a lamp in hand, he ventures into the hallway to discover what lurks in the darkness.
Apr 2026
In a city marked by hypocrisy and desire, Ana, an erratic young woman, crosses paths with a nun in a crisis of faith. Between the sacred and the carnal, their limits and beliefs are stretched to the breaking point, until reality is distorted and violence erupts as a desperate act of help.
Studying for a degree, getting her license, getting pregnant: Maru tries to achieve these supposed milestones of adulthood, but everything seems to go wrong.
From 1996 to 1998, a low-budget TV commercial for Saskatoon’s Great Buffet of China aired relentlessly. Featuring a Caucasian pitchman introducing the phrase “How Chee” and a group of amateur young actors repeating it, the ad became infamous. Some laughed. Others cringed. Many called it the worst commercial ever made. Thirty years later, it still resurfaces—at one point even going viral in China. How Chee! explores the unlikely origins of the ad, the friendship between an immigrant restaurant owner and the professor who tried to help save his business, and the now-adult actors who became locally famous long before going viral was a thing.
After his father's death, Marcos begins to lose control of his life. An inherited prosthetic arm, unsafe to be cremated, starts to absorbs all of his attention and isolates him from his girlfriend, forcing him to make a decision.
Mar 2025
Three friends sign up for a poker match full of intensity, betrayal and money
May 2026
After her sister's murder, Norma Mesino takes the helm of the Peasant Organization of the Southern Sierra, a group that for 30 years has been fighting for the human rights of peasants living in one of the poorest and most violent regions of Mexico. She carries the weight of a surname synonymous with struggle and resistance, marked by the Aguas Blancas massacre, imprisonments, assassinations, and disappearances, while in her daily life she continues her almost invisible work to overcome the atmosphere of hostility and impunity that surrounds her, thus fulfilling what seems to be her manifest destiny.
An agent of the intelligence community must dispatch her French asset, who has become increasingly erratic. The task is made even harder when she realizes his true feelings for her.
In an illiterate future world, an ex-book thief takes one last job to recover something powerful and deeply personal.
A surprise bachelor party brings estranged bandmates to a borrowed house for a weekend of bad vibes, old grudges, and KILLER encores.
Creature of the Pines is a found footage horror movie set in the legendary New Jersey Pine Barrens, one of the most mysterious and unsettling stretches of wilderness in America. Locals have whispered about strange sightings and disappearances for generations, but few people are willing to talk about what they’ve seen, and even fewer dare to go looking.
A documentary about the STUC.
A quiet, introspective short film about navigating the fragile space between grief and growing up. learn that grief isn’t something to “get over,” but something that reshapes you. this film can be watched on the youtube channel @Fatimafilmproductions