Backrooms (opens in new tab)

Kane Parsons, 2026, ★★½ After seeing the film, I watched Kane Parsons’s entire on YouTube. Though there are some tells here and there that it’s the work of a teenager (and one who’s played a lot of Portal), he’s clearly a prodigious talent, and it’s easy to see why A24 scooped him up to make a feature. Parsons didn’t invent the Backrooms concept—essentially an empty (or is it?), windowless, inescapable yellow maze of a corporate campus—and I’m not terminally online enough to dig too deeply in...