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2/4
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Anniversary
(2025)
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Josh Bell
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It's like an overly somber take on the forgotten 2018 Ike Barinholtz comedy The Oath, and it's similarly unconvincing.
Posted Oct 30, 2025
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2.5/4
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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In many regards, del Toro ends up feeling most like the titular doctor. He’s done it, he’s created something with new life in Elordi’s vibrant performance, only for the world to see his beautiful creation sadly surpass him.
Posted Oct 23, 2025
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1.5/4
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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Where Nebraska remains a bold and achingly beautiful work of art, Deliver Me from Nowhere is a film that merely goes through the motions.
Posted Oct 23, 2025
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2/4
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After the Hunt
(2025)
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Josh Bell
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The filmmakers favor opacity over insight, resulting in a frustrating film that drags out its repetitive innuendos for nearly two and a half hours.
Posted Oct 16, 2025
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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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The ultimate conclusion is less of a poetic ending than it is a sudden stopping. Rather than feel provocative, it proves to be one last incomplete thought in a film full of them. Instead of truly staring down nuclear annihilation, Bigelow merely blinks.
Posted Oct 11, 2025
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Idle Hands
(1999)
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Chase Hutchinson
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A stoner horror-comedy more fun in theory than it is in execution, Idle Hands is still a movie you must watch just to say you’ve done it. You’ll likely groan at the iffy jokes, but you can’t fully dismiss the fun it has with practical body horror effects.
Posted Oct 11, 2025
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Tucker & Dale vs Evil
(2010)
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Chase Hutchinson
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A delightful buddy comedy that doesn’t skimp on blood when all the horror shenanigans take hold, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil remains an all-time cult movie worth pledging your soul to. Bursting with silly gags and gory kills, it remains a horror lover’s dream.
Posted Oct 11, 2025
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The Cabin in the Woods
(2011)
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Chase Hutchinson
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A clever skewering of horror clichés that carves out plenty of bloody fun all its own, The Cabin in the Woods deconstructs the genre while also working as a solid entry in it. That the film lives and dies on a stoner saving the day makes it a real treat.
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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2.5/4
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Roofman
(2025)
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Josh Bell
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With gentle humor and easygoing rapport, Roofman tells a nice story about a surprisingly nice guy, and that's nice enough.
Posted Oct 09, 2025
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No Other Choice
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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While it's been favorably yet reductively compared to Parasite, it boasts countless bleakly hilarious, visually sharp and haunting moments all its own. When it lands one final dark joke to end all dark jokes, you can only laugh to stop from throwing up.
Posted Sep 21, 2025
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Rental Family
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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Though ultimately built to be an earnest crowdpleaser, there are many intriguing and thorny moments where it's as if a fantastic Fraser is playing the chaotic good version of Nathan Fielder from The Rehearsal. It's this that ensures it cuts a bit deeper.
Posted Sep 21, 2025
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The Baltimorons
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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It's like Before Sunset but with beer as opposed to wine, a great deal more mouth blood, and a Baltimore setting. This could sound like a horror film if tweaked a bit, but The Baltimorons is a bittersweet rom-com gem.
Posted Sep 21, 2025
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2/4
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The History of Sound
(2025)
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Josh Bell
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That swooning romantic chemistry is the cornerstone of The History of Sound, which is elegant and engaging when Lionel and David are together, and much less compelling when they're apart.
Posted Sep 18, 2025
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2.5/4
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Caught Stealing
(2025)
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Josh Bell
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Caught Stealing is entertaining to watch from moment to moment, but it's also one thing previous Aronofsky films have never been: forgettable.
Posted Aug 28, 2025
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1.5/4
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The Roses
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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You wish better for the cast and couple, though they really ought to call it quits.
Posted Aug 28, 2025
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3/4
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Relay
(2024)
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Chase Hutchinson
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For much of it, Ahmed says few words, but you can't take your eyes off him in every scene. He's got presence to spare and never overplays his hand, capturing all the layers of his character that make you feel his every emotion even when he isn't speaking.
Posted Aug 28, 2025
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2.5/4
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Eden
(2024)
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Josh Bell
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Eden benefits from Howard's diligence and attention to detail, and it's never less than engrossing.
Posted Aug 21, 2025
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2.5/4
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Cloud
(2024)
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Josh Bell
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Cloud is appealingly off-kilter and unpredictable, although that also makes it unwieldy and occasionally frustrating.
Posted Aug 14, 2025
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1/4
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Freakier Friday
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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If there is one positive thing that can be said about Freakier Friday, a sequel that never once earns its existence, it's that there is no risk of anyone in history ever being nostalgic for it.
Posted Aug 07, 2025
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2/4
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Sketch
(2024)
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Josh Bell
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It's wholesome, positive and only occasionally interesting to watch.
Posted Aug 07, 2025
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3/4
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The Naked Gun
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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Even if it won't save the modern comedy as we know it on its own, it may prove how the many rumors of the genre's premature death have been greatly exaggerated.
Posted Jul 31, 2025
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2/4
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Oh, Hi!
(2025)
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Josh Bell
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For a movie about two people going to extreme lengths to define their relationship, Oh, Hi! has a real problem with commitment, and that takes the sting out of its surprising twists.
Posted Jul 24, 2025
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1.5/4
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Eddington
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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Less a satire and more an off-kilter dramedy that's light on anything resembling clever jokes or deeper insights, it's got some compelling craft in the final stretch and a few solid performances, but little else.
Posted Jul 18, 2025
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3/4
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
(2024)
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Josh Bell
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A story like this could come across as condescending or didactic, but even in moments when it's potentially problematic, Venter's wonderful, wide-eyed performance keeps the narrative grounded.
Posted Jul 17, 2025
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2.5/4
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Superman
(2025)
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Josh Bell
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As unwieldy as Superman can sometimes be, it's overstuffed with characters and subplots because Gunn wants to put in as much cool superhero stuff as he can.
Posted Jul 10, 2025
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1/4
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Jurassic World Rebirth
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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It's a two-hour plus shrug, a serving up of slop that only succeeds at making the many perfunctory previous entries somehow look okay by comparison.
Posted Jul 04, 2025
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2.5/4
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40 Acres
(2024)
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Josh Bell
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Thorne relies on a lot of familiar post-apocalyptic elements, although he gives them enough distinctiveness that 40 Acres doesn't simply feel like a retread.
Posted Jul 03, 2025
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1.5/4
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Elio
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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Where past Pixar films created transcendent, soaring emotion, all you feel here is the cold emptiness of space where there should be a soul.
Posted Jun 27, 2025
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Brokeback Mountain
(2005)
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Chase Hutchinson
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For all the film's moments of authentically aching passion, the greatest ache is the one that sits in the pit of your stomach as you realize that it's all gone.
Posted Jun 27, 2025
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2/4
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F1 The Movie
(2025)
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Josh Bell
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F1 is a Formula One commercial first, and a narrative film somewhere in distant second, with every story beat and character designed to showcase the supposed grandeur of Formula One racing -- and all of those corporate logos.
Posted Jun 26, 2025
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2/4
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How to Train Your Dragon
(2025)
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Josh Bell
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DeBlois' slavishly faithful recreation of his own movie takes no chances and offers nothing that might challenge or upset the franchise's devoted following.
Posted Jun 12, 2025
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2.5/4
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The Phoenician Scheme
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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The Phoenician Scheme is Wes Anderson's most spiritual, if slightly scattered, film. It's a work built around a story simultaneously intricate and incidental, profound and perfunctory, while remaining as visually enrapturing as ever.
Posted Jun 06, 2025
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2/4
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Ballerina
(2025)
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Josh Bell
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It's a rather perfunctory revenge story, with one meager late-film twist, and a stock motivation that feels less personal than John's puppy-based quest.
Posted Jun 05, 2025
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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Much like how Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt straps on an AI mask that curses him to see a maddening future, the experience of watching this final film in the action franchise is most akin to enduring increasingly painful psychic damage for nearly three hours.
Posted May 22, 2025
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2.5/4
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The Surrender
(2025)
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Josh Bell
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The stranger's elaborate rules and procedures don't amount to much, but the brutal emotional battle between mother and daughter lingers past the film's final perplexing image.
Posted May 22, 2025
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3/4
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Secret Mall Apartment
(2024)
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Chase Hutchinson
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Secret Mall Apartment both is and isn't about a secret mall apartment, though the film becomes much like the home the group made: a way of carving out a space for connection where there otherwise is none.
Posted May 15, 2025
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2.5/4
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Fight or Flight
(2024)
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Josh Bell
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Madigan, a veteran visual effects artist and second-unit director making his debut feature, stages inventive and economical action almost entirely within the plane itself.
Posted May 08, 2025
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3/4
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The Surfer
(2024)
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Chase Hutchinson
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A film that rivals George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road and Furiosa in terms of how it turns Australia into even more of a stiflingly hot hellscape than it already is, The Surfer is a film less watched than it is endured.
Posted May 01, 2025
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1.5/4
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Thunderbolts*
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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Thunderbolts* is leaps and bounds better than the studio's other movie from this year, the baffling Captain America: Brave New World, but that's damning with faint praise.
Posted May 01, 2025
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2/4
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On Swift Horses
(2024)
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Josh Bell
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The stars look gorgeous while pouting and gazing, but the appeal of attractive people in sensual embraces can only carry the movie for so long.
Posted Apr 24, 2025
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3/4
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The Shrouds
(2024)
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Josh Bell
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This probably shouldn't be anyone's first Cronenberg movie, but for viewers who have followed him across sicko classics like Shivers, The Brood and The Fly, it's a powerful jolt of the uncanny, horrific beauty that only he can create.
Posted Apr 24, 2025
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3/4
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The Encampments
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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Crafted with a clarity of purpose that ensures it moves beyond the reductive headlines to highlight the students' motivations and solidarity, its timeliness provides merely one part of its resonance.
Posted Apr 17, 2025
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3/4
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Sacramento
(2024)
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Chase Hutchinson
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The jokes that the duo tease out, including one great gag we see glimpsed through the window of a restaurant, blend together with a loving yet not uncritical portrait of the two men.
Posted Apr 10, 2025
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1.5/4
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The Amateur
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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Where Mr. Robot was an honest confrontation with the forces consuming the world and gave Malek more to work with, The Amateur is a mission failure on both counts.
Posted Apr 10, 2025
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.5/4
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A Minecraft Movie
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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For a film that constantly insists its world is one of boundless creative potential and pure imagination, it's almost impressive how painfully uninspired A Minecraft Movie is. It may yearn for the mines, but you'll merely wish for death to end its misery.
Posted Apr 04, 2025
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2.5
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The Friend
(2024)
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Chase Hutchinson
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It isn't as deep as the book, with many of the film's supporting characters getting short shrift, but Watts is able to weather these narrative storms enough to make The Friend still grab hold of you.
Posted Apr 04, 2025
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3/4
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The Assessment
(2024)
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Chase Hutchinson
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Vikander, whose still astounding work in the modern sci-fi classic Ex Machina feels most relevant to some of what she is doing here, is a menace in the best possible sense with layers upon layers to her performance.
Posted Apr 04, 2025
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2/4
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Ash
(2025)
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Chase Hutchinson
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For all the bursts of nightmarish gore that invade Riya's mind, it's the moments in between this where the film starts to stall and undercut itself.
Posted Apr 04, 2025
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1.5/4
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The Penguin Lessons
(2024)
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Josh Bell
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As a story about a curmudgeon regaining his passion for living by befriending a wild animal, The Penguin Lessons is treacly but inoffensive, with a blandly likable lead performance from Coogan.
Posted Mar 27, 2025
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2/4
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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
(2024)
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Josh Bell
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A mostly forgettable outing for a few classic Looney Tunes characters that struggles to justify its existence as a feature film.
Posted Mar 13, 2025
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