Katie Rife

Katie Rife is a writer and critic specializing in genre cinema. She was on staff at The A.V. Club from 2014 to 2022, and currently covers film and TV for Inverse as well as outlets like Indiewire, Vulture, Rolling Stone, Letterboxd Journal, and RogerEbert.com.

Review

'You Can See Everything' Will Make You Question Everything

This ingeniously structured doc about convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes seems to have broken Nathan Fielder. It was worth it.

By Katie Rife
Musk We Do This?

'Musk' Has a Pretty Good Idea of How We Got Here, Actually

235 minutes is a long time to spend with the world’s most hatable man.

By Katie Rife
Exclusive

Why 'Godzilla Minus Zero' Is Rated R, According to Its Producer

“We decided to not compromise the visual expression, the message, or the theme of the film,” Kazuaki Kishida tells Inverse.

By Katie Rife
Rewind

What’s So Funny About 'Mulholland Drive'?

David Lynch’s masterpiece asks viewers to let go of logic and dive deep into the director’s — and their own — subconscious. Let it in.

By Katie Rife
Blu-rays

'Godzilla Minus One’s 4K Box Set Is Appropriately Huge

Prepare for Godzilla Minus Zero by revisiting its absolutely enormous predecessor.

By Katie Rife
Review

'Other Mommy' Is Slick, Scary, and Kind of Silly

At least Jessica Chastain is having fun.

By Katie Rife
NYFF 2026 Review

'Bucking Fastard' Takes Werner Herzog Back to His Weirdo Roots

Rooney and Kate Mara speak, act, and think in unison in this wonderfully bizarre Herzogian fable.

By Katie Rife
Review

'Beware Boiúna' Is Schlock With A Capital “Ssssssssssss”

It’s a giant snake movie, all right — no more, and no less.

By Katie Rife
Review

Mike Flanagan’s 'Carrie' Series Is Great — When It Sticks to 'Carrie,' That Is

Stephen King’s biggest fan updates one of the author’s most famous works for TV.

By Katie Rife
Fantastic Fest

5 Movies to Watch From This Year’s Fantastic Fest

Gruesome gore, sinister old people, conspiracy theorists, a haunted prison, and a psychedelic love story are among Inverse’s picks from Fantastic Fest.

By Katie Rife
NYFF 2026 Review

'Godzilla Minus Zero' Is A Worthy Follow-up to 'Godzilla Minus One'

Although the human elements aren’t as cohesive as in Godzilla Minus One, Godzilla Minus Zero is still a world-class blockbuster spectacle.

By Katie Rife
The Inverse Interview

“Someday We Will Be Voices From The Past.”

As the period political thriller enters the Criterion Collection, writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho talks to Inverse about the pulpy poetry of The Secret Agent.

By Katie Rife
Fantastic Fest 2026 Review

Flying Saucers Meet ‘50s Bikers in the Absurdist Sci-Fi Comedy 'Alpha Gang'

Riley Keough leads a committed cast in this slight, but strange, sci-fi comedy from the directors of Sasquatch Sunset.

By Katie Rife
Fantastic Fest 2026 Review

'Wild Horse Nine' Is An Unbridled Triumph

Not a single shot or line of dialogue is misplaced in this masterful comedic thriller, about a sundowning CIA agent and his frazzled partner.

By Katie Rife
First Impressions

Mike Flanagan's 'Carrie' Is A Pitch-Perfect Adaptation — With One Big Flaw

Bringing the classic Stephen King thriller to contemporary times works surprisingly well.

By Katie Rife
Rewind

40 Years Ago, 'Blue Velvet' Caught Detective Movies with Their Pants Down

“I don’t know if you’re a detective or a pervert.”

By Katie Rife
TIFF 2026 Review

'The Face of Horror' Is a Feminist Art-Horror Fairytale Like No Other

Based on an iconic Japanese ghost story, the heightened aesthetics and tragic fatalism of Anna Biller’s latest feminist art-horror film are nothing less than sublime.

By Katie Rife
TIFF 2026 Review

Get Swept Up in the Terrifying Current of 'River,' Horror’s Next Big Thing

Premiering in the Midnight Madness section at TIFF, this excellent new slasher is horror filmmaking at its most elemental.

By Katie Rife
Review

'Chronovisor' Is The Year’s Most Absorbing — and Unusual — Mystery

The Da Vinci Code meets Tenet in this odd and appealingly literate mystery-thriller hybrid.

By Katie Rife
Review

'Fall 2: Deadpoint' Lands With A Splat

The term here is “unforced error.”

By Katie Rife