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4/10
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Shelby Oaks
(2023)
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Reuben Baron
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Stuckmann may very well have a good future ahead of him as a director, which is a polite way of saying he's not quite there yet with his first feature.
Posted Oct 21, 2025
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5/10
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The Woman in Cabin 10
(2025)
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Alistair Ryder
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If, like me in writing this review, you have to think about it for more than a second, it completely falls apart.
Posted Oct 11, 2025
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6/10
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Is This Thing On?
(2025)
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Reuben Baron
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It's never boring, but also never stunning — a success on its own unambitious terms that I nonetheless expect to mostly forget about.
Posted Oct 11, 2025
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6/10
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TRON: Ares
(2025)
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Dominic Griffin
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"Ares" works best as a rollicking action picture with some strong visuals and incredible soundscapes. It lacks the acting acumen and depth of writing to achieve much more.
Posted Oct 07, 2025
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8/10
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Good Boy
(2025)
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Alistair Ryder
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Pet owners will likely be moved to tears by "Good Boy," but not for the reasons they're afraid of.
Posted Oct 01, 2025
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4.5/10
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Anemone
(2025)
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Reuben Baron
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Even another great Daniel Day-Lewis performance can't push this into something I'd recommend. It's both a bummer and a bore.
Posted Sep 29, 2025
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6/10
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The Strangers: Chapter 2
(2025)
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Alistair Ryder
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While it doesn't offer anything you haven't seen in a slasher movie before, the pivot to survival thriller mode feels like a breath of fresh air after a tiresome prior instalment with no unique ideas.
Posted Sep 22, 2025
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7/10
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Rental Family
(2025)
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Audrey Fox
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Hikari's "Rental Family" is an earnest and sentimental exploration of loneliness and the longing for human connection.
Posted Sep 22, 2025
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8/10
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Eternity
(2025)
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Audrey Fox
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"Eternity" gives us a delightful treat in that it allows Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen, and Callum Turner — three excellent actors, but none of whom are particularly well known for their comedic chops — the opportunity to be genuinely funny.
Posted Sep 22, 2025
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10/10
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Hamnet
(2025)
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Audrey Fox
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A thoughtful meditation on love and grief, "Hamnet" features career-best performances from Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley, and is Zhao's most intimate work to date.
Posted Sep 22, 2025
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5.5/10
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HIM
(2025)
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Dominic Griffin
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"Him" is a decent time at the movies and possesses an impressive sense of execution. It's just that the vision its putting forth feels like one we've seen a lot of in recent years, and some pretty pictures can't overcome the sense we've been here before.
Posted Sep 18, 2025
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8.5/10
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
(2025)
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Reuben Baron
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Wake Up Dead Man lives up to the standards of quality set by the past two films. In a few ways, it's even better.
Posted Sep 15, 2025
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5/10
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The Smashing Machine
(2025)
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Reuben Baron
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The meta-narrative of where The Smashing Machine fits into Johnson's career is more interesting than the film itself, which I found a bit of a bore.
Posted Sep 10, 2025
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7.5/10
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Reuben Baron
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Taken on its own terms, Frankenstein is a compelling, at times moving, and utterly gorgeous epic. As a fan of both Del Toro and Shelley, I can't help but nitpick the details.
Posted Sep 10, 2025
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8/10
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Roofman
(2025)
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Reuben Baron
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This is a surprisingly sad movie — just one that also happens to be funny.
Posted Sep 08, 2025
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7/10
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The Conjuring: Last Rites
(2025)
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Dominic Griffin
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While the movie does a fine job sending off the Warrens, it lacks some of the charm of its predecessors, and in the end, feels more like a comforting rerun than an exciting new horror effort.
Posted Sep 04, 2025
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7/10
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The Long Walk
(2025)
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Alistair Ryder
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Whether "The Long Walk" will combat King adaptation fatigue is to be seen, but it manages to recapture the intensity and melancholy of the earliest films inspired by his work in a way that few recently have.
Posted Sep 02, 2025
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6/10
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Nobody 2
(2025)
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Alistair Ryder
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As far as sequels nobody asked for go, "Nobody 2" is in the higher tiers, bringing enough joyously inventive action to the plate that it almost — almost! — makes you overlook how obvious it was the writers didn't know where to take these characters next.
Posted Aug 14, 2025
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6/10
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The Pickup
(2025)
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Alistair Ryder
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The vastly overqualified cast stubbornly refuses to phone it in, with their high-wattage charisma acting as the ultimate special effect; their banter is entertaining enough to help distract from just how cheap everything else onscreen looks.
Posted Aug 04, 2025
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7.5/10
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Together
(2025)
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Reuben Baron
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Doing double duty as both a romcom and a twisted body horror movie is a tonal challenge that Together pulls off successfully, in large part thanks to how fun it is.
Posted Jul 26, 2025
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4/10
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Happy Gilmore 2
(2025)
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Cynthia Vinney
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"Happy Gilmore 2" is harmless entertainment. It's a pipe dream of a movie, even more so than the first one, with improbable scenes galore.
Posted Jul 25, 2025
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8/10
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
(2025)
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Dominic Griffin
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The film is not exactly exemplary or paradigm shifting, but it is entertaining, heartfelt, earnest, and largely unashamed of its comic book origins.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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5.5/10
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Eddington
(2025)
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Dominic Griffin
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...a fascinating film whose high points are sure to grow in the public estimation with the distance of time, but whose murky themes and punishing runtime have more in common with advanced torture tactics than with traditional cinematic expression.
Posted Jul 19, 2025
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9/10
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Superman
(2025)
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Reuben Baron
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Superman is zippy blockbuster fun. But amidst all its cartoon absurdity, it might just inspire people to make a difference in this universe.
Posted Jul 08, 2025
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4/10
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Jurassic World Rebirth
(2025)
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Alistair Ryder
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Reverting to the simplicity of the original formula doesn't hide the fact that it has long grown stale over decades of poor imitation; it's inescapably derivative of an earlier film you'd rather be watching at any given moment.
Posted Jun 30, 2025
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7/10
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F1 The Movie
(2025)
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Dominic Griffin
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Yet at the end of the day, the roar of the engines is loud enough to drown out any meaningful discussions about the intersection of commerce and art. For a movie about cars racing fast, it delivers.
Posted Jun 28, 2025
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3/10
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M3GAN 2.0
(2025)
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Reuben Baron
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If the first M3GAN was a "Don't Create The Torment Nexus" tale, its sequel is Torment Nexus propaganda.
Posted Jun 25, 2025
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9/10
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28 Years Later
(2025)
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Cynthia Vinney
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28 Years Later is scary and touching and funny and brutal
Posted Jun 23, 2025
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7/10
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Materialists
(2025)
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Reuben Baron
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Materialists never reaches the passion and beauty of Song's debut romantic feature Past Lives, but it's at its most interesting and insightful when it isn't even trying to.
Posted Jun 11, 2025
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6/10
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Predator: Killer of Killers
(2025)
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Alistair Ryder
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The animation is gorgeous and inventive.
Posted Jun 06, 2025
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6/10
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Ballerina
(2025)
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Dominic Griffin
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While this one is the first canon spin-off and not just another convenient doppelgänger, it does rely more heavily on the presence of Keanu Reeves' iconic boogeyman than the trailers might suggest.
Posted Jun 05, 2025
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5/10
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Karate Kid: Legends
(2025)
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Alistair Ryder
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The returning characters are such an irrelevance that their presence feels like a Sony executive had the misguided idea to force this movie into being a karate "Spider-Man: No Way Home" at the very last minute.
Posted May 29, 2025
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4/10
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Fountain of Youth
(2025)
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Alistair Ryder
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Seeing something like Fountain Of Youth is another reminder of why Spielberg is the ultimate master, leaving even name-brand directors who have their own distinct style like Guy Ritchie trailing far behind his work from over 40 years ago.
Posted May 22, 2025
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8/10
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The Phoenician Scheme
(2025)
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Reuben Baron
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Its approachable heart heightens the appeal of the expected surface pleasures, making this the most I've enjoyed an Anderson film since 2018's Isle of Dogs.
Posted May 21, 2025
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8/10
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Bring Her Back
(2025)
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Reuben Baron
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Bring Her Back genuinely disturbed me. You can decide whether that's reason to see it as soon as possible or reason to stay far away.
Posted May 16, 2025
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5/10
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
(2025)
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Alistair Ryder
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At times during the exposition-heavy first half, it can feel like Cruise and McQuarrie are applying the most misguided lessons from late period Marvel, asking audiences to remember minor details from decades prior for the sake of an unsatisfying payoff.
Posted May 15, 2025
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7/10
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Final Destination Bloodlines
(2025)
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Audrey Fox
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With gory, inventive set pieces and engaging performances from its young cast, Final Destination Bloodlines is pure, pulpy entertainment.
Posted May 15, 2025
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5/10
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Havoc
(2025)
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Alistair Ryder
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I can't deny that the film lives up to its title, but it's a disappointment because it feels like a filmmaker who set a new template for the genre falling behind the pack, imitating the action hits that followed in the wake of his two Raid efforts.
Posted Apr 24, 2025
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7.5/10
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The Accountant 2
(2025)
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Dominic Griffin
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O'Connor himself has referred to it as "Rain Man" on steroids, and he's not entirely wrong. It's at once a fun and crowd-pleasing picture in that classic's vein as well as an extrapolation of what worked so well in the last outing.
Posted Apr 24, 2025
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7.5/10
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Sinners
(2025)
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Dominic Griffin
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The film is a gargantuan undertaking and its heights will reverberate through pop culture for the foreseeable future. But some of its bigger swings don't quite connect and suggest that it is possible for a movie to try to be too many things at once.
Posted Apr 15, 2025
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6/10
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Warfare
(2025)
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Reuben Baron
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Art made for a target audience of one person still has value, and while I am decidedly not even close to that target audience, I have to respect it.
Posted Apr 09, 2025
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7/10
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On Swift Horses
(2024)
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Reuben Baron
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On Swift Horses plays like a hybrid of Luca Guadagnino's two 2024 films: the complex relationships and game-playing of Challengers meets the period setting (including a trip to Mexico) and quiet loneliness of Queer.
Posted Apr 01, 2025
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6/10
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A Working Man
(2025)
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Dominic Griffin
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...may have reached a new low in seeing how boilerplate a premise can be while still leading to a satisfying moviegoing experience.
Posted Mar 28, 2025
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8/10
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You're Cordially Invited
(2025)
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Cynthia Vinney
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There are a lot of funny bits that will have you laughing, even if you're folding laundry or paying attention to a second screen as you let this unspool.
Posted Mar 19, 2025
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6/10
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Disney's Snow White
(2025)
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Cynthia Vinney
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At least half this film — especially the clash between the Evil Queen and Snow White — is enjoyable enough.
Posted Mar 19, 2025
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6.5/10
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Death of a Unicorn
(2025)
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Reuben Baron
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Not a great movie, but "horror-comedy where unicorns kill rich people" is the sort of high concept that guarantees some level of entertainment, and excellent casting helps compensate for its weaknesses on the screenplay level.
Posted Mar 13, 2025
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8.5/10
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Black Bag
(2025)
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Dominic Griffin
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It's a sharp, sexy, and intoxicating drama that has more in common with Patrick Marber's play "Closer" than with most spook stories. And did we mention it's only 93 minutes?
Posted Mar 11, 2025
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1/10
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The Electric State
(2025)
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Alistair Ryder
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Everything from the character designs to the story beats feel like the results of ChatGPT prompts the siblings hastily made on the way to set each day.
Posted Mar 07, 2025
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5/10
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Last Breath
(2025)
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Alistair Ryder
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Adapting his own hit Netflix documentary of the same name from 2019, director Alex Parkinson offers some fittingly intense genre thrills without ever fully justifying why he needed to return to this deep-sea nightmare.
Posted Feb 27, 2025
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9/10
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The Monkey
(2025)
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Matthew Jackson
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"The Monkey" is a deranged face-melter, just waiting for throngs of horror fans to bask in its madness.
Posted Feb 18, 2025
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