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2.5/4
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Hackers
(1995)
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David Nusair
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...a slick, basically watchable endeavor...
Posted Oct 30, 2025
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1.5/4
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Walk, Don't Run
(1966)
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David Nusair
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...a sluggish and mostly underwhelming romantic comedy...
Posted Oct 30, 2025
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2/4
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Fast Life
(1932)
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David Nusair
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...a relatively promising setup that’s employed to mostly underwhelming and tiresome effect by Pollard...
Posted Oct 27, 2025
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2.5/4
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The Island President
(2011)
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David Nusair
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...an engaging yet overlong documentary revolving around the president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed...
Posted Oct 25, 2025
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1.5/4
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Dream Eater
(2025)
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David Nusair
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...familiar territory that’s employed to periodically creepy yet mostly lackluster effect by the filmmakers...
Posted Oct 25, 2025
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2.5/4
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Mr. Majestyk
(1974)
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David Nusair
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...a mostly watchable endeavor that fares best within its surprising, compelling first half...
Posted Oct 25, 2025
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0/4
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After the Hunt
(2025)
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David Nusair
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...a seriously (and aggressively) misbegotten endeavor that couldn’t possibly be less interesting (or more maddening).
Posted Oct 23, 2025
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2/4
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The Good Son
(2011)
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David Nusair
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Bergroth’s pervasively low-key sensibilities ensure that the movie is rarely as engrossing or even entertaining as one might’ve hoped.
Posted Oct 22, 2025
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2/4
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Lovesick
(1983)
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David Nusair
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...a sluggish and mostly underwhelming endeavor...
Posted Oct 22, 2025
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3/4
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Crime Wave
(1954)
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David Nusair
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...a mostly compelling endeavor that succeeds as both a police procedural and a tense film noir...
Posted Oct 19, 2025
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3/4
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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
(2025)
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David Nusair
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...a fairly electrifying premise that’s employed to watchable yet periodically disappointing effect by Bigelow...
Posted Oct 19, 2025
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2.5/4
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The Long Walk
(2025)
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David Nusair
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...an intriguing premise that’s employed to erratic yet mostly successful effect by Lawrence...
Posted Oct 19, 2025
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2/4
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TRON: Ares
(2025)
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David Nusair
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...an intriguing premise that is, unfortunately, slowly-but-surely squandered by Rønning...
Posted Oct 19, 2025
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3/4
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Oslo, August 31st
(2011)
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David Nusair
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...effectively confirms Trier’s place as one of the most promising new directors on the international scene.
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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1.5/4
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Summer Games
(2011)
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David Nusair
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By the time the protagonists stone a local dog to death, Summer Games has certainly confirmed its place as a misguided, sporadically unpleasant piece of work.
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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2/4
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The Cat Vanishes
(2011)
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David Nusair
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A subdued drama disguised as a Hitchcockian thriller...
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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1/4
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I'm Yours
(2011)
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David Nusair
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Saddled with as idiotic a premise as one can easily recall...
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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2.5/4
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The Smashing Machine
(2025)
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David Nusair
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...a meandering and repetitive endeavor that just barely manages to squeak by based on its star’s incredible (and transformative) efforts...
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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1/4
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Suicide Kings
(1997)
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David Nusair
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...a potentially electrifying premise that is, virtually from the word go, employed to lackluster and interminable effect...
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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2.5/4
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Cadence
(1990)
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David Nusair
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...a perpetually erratic endeavor...
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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2.5/4
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The Odds
(2011)
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David Nusair
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...entertainingly over-the-top...
Posted Oct 09, 2025
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2.5/4
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I Am a Good Person / I Am a Bad Person
(2011)
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David Nusair
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...the writer/director does a nice job of portraying the individual dilemmas faced by both characters...
Posted Oct 09, 2025
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1/4
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Amy George
(2011)
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David Nusair
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...an overly avant-garde piece of work that might have worked as a 15-minute short but just feels endless within the context of a feature.
Posted Oct 09, 2025
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.5/4
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The Strangers: Chapter 2
(2025)
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David Nusair
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...a perpetually misguided (and flat-out terrible) sequel...
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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2/4
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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David Nusair
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...yet another mediocre misfire from a once great auteur.
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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2.5/4
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The Fan
(1981)
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David Nusair
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...enjoyably familiar subject matter that is, at the outset, employed to entertaining effect by Bianchi...
Posted Oct 07, 2025
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2/4
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White Zombie
(1932)
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David Nusair
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...an erratic endeavor that admittedly does get off to a decent (and promising) start...
Posted Oct 06, 2025
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2/4
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Critters 2: The Main Course
(1988)
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David Nusair
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A very mild improvement over its seriously lackluster predecessor...
Posted Oct 02, 2025
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1.5/4
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Critters
(1986)
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David Nusair
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...a mostly misguided disaster.
Posted Oct 02, 2025
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2/4
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American Buffalo
(1996)
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David Nusair
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...predominantly comes off as a persistently lackluster endeavor that confirms some plays just aren’t suited to the silver screen.
Posted Oct 02, 2025
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3/4
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Junun
(2015)
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David Nusair
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...a solid endeavor that benefits rather substantially from a big-screen, surround-sound presentation...
Posted Oct 02, 2025
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3/4
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The Thing Called Love
(1993)
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David Nusair
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...familiar subject matter that is, for the most part, employed to watchable, affable effect by Bogdanovich...
Posted Oct 01, 2025
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1.5/4
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Catch Me if You Can
(1989)
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David Nusair
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...a perpetually pedestrian drama that contains few wholeheartedly entertaining attributes...
Posted Sep 26, 2025
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1.5/4
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Molly
(1999)
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David Nusair
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...an earnest yet perpetually tiresome drama...
Posted Sep 26, 2025
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2/4
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The Thursday Murder Club
(2025)
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David Nusair
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...a perpetually (and somewhat exhaustingly) lighthearted endeavor...
Posted Sep 26, 2025
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1.5/4
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The Call
(2013)
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David Nusair
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...a perfectly watchable programmer that unfortunately descends into absolute tedium as it progresses...
Posted Sep 25, 2025
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3/4
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Red Nights
(2010)
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David Nusair
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A seriously strange little movie...
Posted Sep 24, 2025
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2/4
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Ice Road: Vengeance
(2025)
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David Nusair
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...a woefully erratic actioner that squanders its assortment of positive attributes.
Posted Sep 23, 2025
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2.5/4
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Before and After
(1996)
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David Nusair
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...an often egregiously deliberate drama that nevertheless sustains one’s interest throughout...
Posted Sep 23, 2025
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2.5/4
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The Conjuring: Last Rites
(2025)
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David Nusair
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...a decent-enough piece of work that falls right in line with its hit-and-miss predecessors.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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1/4
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Winter Kills
(1979)
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David Nusair
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...an often astonishingly misguided bomb that just doesn’t work in the slightest.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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2/4
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The Empty Man
(2020)
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David Nusair
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...an ambitious misfire that might’ve worked had it topped out at an hour and a half.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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0/4
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The Napa Boys
(2025)
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David Nusair
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...a palpable misfire (and waste of time) that ultimately comes off as one long (and baffling) inside joke.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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2.5/4
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Canceled: The Paula Deen Story
(2025)
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David Nusair
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...compelling subject matter that’s employed to entertaining (albeit erratic) effect by Corben...
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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3/4
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Easy's Waltz
(2025)
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David Nusair
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...boasts, at its core, an absolutely terrific (and mesmerizing) performance by Vaughn...
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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3/4
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Retreat
(2025)
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David Nusair
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Retreat begins to adopt a far more engrossing feel once certain pieces start to fall into place...
Posted Sep 17, 2025
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3.5/4
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Fuze
(2025)
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David Nusair
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...a compelling premise that’s employed as a springboard for a briskly-paced and twist-laden endeavor rife with compelling set-pieces...
Posted Sep 13, 2025
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3.5/4
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Obsession
(2025)
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David Nusair
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...a first-class effort from a promising new filmmaker.
Posted Sep 08, 2025
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3.5/4
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John Candy: I Like Me
(2025)
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David Nusair
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...a superb (and definitive) documentary about one of cinema’s most beloved figures.
Posted Sep 08, 2025
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3/4
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Motor City
(2025)
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David Nusair
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...a bold experiment that is, more often than not, quite impressive.
Posted Sep 07, 2025
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