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B
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Blue Moon
(2025)
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Brendan Cassidy
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The overall vibe of Blue Moon feels reminiscent of Linklater's trademark hangout movies, and it flows similarly to something like Before Sunset, but I really wish it maintained the same philosophical opacities of his best work.
Posted Oct 30, 2025
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B+
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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
(2025)
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JD Duran
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At its nucleus, it’s about the balance between duty in crisis and the visceral human response to catastrophe. And through that prism, it’s why the narrative structure here is actually very effective.
Posted Oct 30, 2025
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B-
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After the Hunt
(2025)
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Brendan Cassidy
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Lesser Luca is still an interesting Luca, and I do give this film some credit for at least attempting to tackle the complexities and sensitivities of the "MeToo" era, without taking clear sides or delivering an obvious stance.
Posted Oct 30, 2025
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A
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It Was Just an Accident
(2025)
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JD Duran
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It Was Just an Accident really might be the movie of the year.
Posted Oct 30, 2025
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B+
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Roofman
(2025)
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JD Duran
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There's a tender graciousness to the film that wonderfully contrasts its diverting qualities. It's not perfect, but mostly Cianfrance nails that tonal balancing act.
Posted Oct 30, 2025
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D+
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TRON: Ares
(2025)
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JD Duran
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I would have 100% been open-minded if they genuinely had a great idea removed from Tron: Legacy, but they very much did not. A lot of what plays out in Ares is just baffling.
Posted Oct 30, 2025
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F
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The Woman in Cabin 10
(2025)
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Maxance Vincent
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[It's] essentially a low-rent, Uwe Boll-directed version of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes.
Posted Oct 27, 2025
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C+
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La Grazia
(2025)
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Maxance Vincent
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[Sorrentino's] image-making usually never fails to bring me to tears, and I was waiting for it to happen in La Grazia. However, it never arrived. To say I’m bummed would be the understatement of the year.
Posted Oct 27, 2025
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B
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Father Mother Sister Brother
(2025)
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Will Bjarnar
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Jarmusch is a filmmaker who has made his name on his innate understanding of people – the more peculiar, the better – and their responses to things that could either be seen as obstacles or gifts.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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B
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Fairyland
(2023)
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Zach Youngs
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Fairyland is a film that grows into itself. It’s a coming of age story that we see evolve as Alysia grows into it.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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B
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Bone Lake
(2024)
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Cameron Ritter
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Mercedes Bryce Morgan has crafted a small diamond in the rough in Bone Lake, taking well-known horror tropes and sexy marketing and subverting those expectations.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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C+
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Ballad of a Small Player
(2025)
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Shaurya Chawla
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he movie just about manages to stay afloat still thanks to Farrell’s fantastic work, who elevates it even in its lowest moments, and creates an experience that makes the ride worth taking, even when it runs out of gas by the finishing line.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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C
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Christy
(2025)
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Dave Giannini
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Christy offered so many of these chances, but the film chooses to travel straight down the middle and they are deeply lucky to have actresses like Sweeney and O’Brian who can carry this to a winning decision, even if just barely.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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C+
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Shelby Oaks
(2023)
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Joshua Mbonu
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Even if it is an imperfect debut at its center, it shows promise of more inventive fare yet to come from Stuckman rather than middling genre fare.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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C+
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Bugonia
(2025)
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Alex Papaioannou
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a bonkers narrative development (which remains admirable despite its own thematic flaws) and excellent performances allows Bugonia the space to feel like another example of why Lanthimos is one of our most exciting contemporary filmmakers.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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C
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Black Phone 2
(2025)
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Megan Loucks
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While there are plenty of aspects of Black Phone 2 that fall short of being as impactful as the first, the snowy nightmares—led by McGraw’s strong performance—allow the film to hold your attention long enough to skate to the film’s credits.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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A
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Rental Family
(2025)
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Brian Susbielles
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Rental Family is a comedy-drama that is surprisingly heartwarming as it is touching on the artificials that could cause more harm than good, which concerns Phillip in the beginning.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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C
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The Twits
(2025)
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Zach Youngs
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The Twits is filled with disgusting humor and visuals to match.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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A-
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Train Dreams
(2025)
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Brian Susbielles
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Train Dreams manages to float through the feelings of Robert as he goes on with his life, holding the pain he feels and rarely expresses it.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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C
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She Walks in Darkness
(2025)
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Zach Youngs
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It feels like the film could be much tighter and have had a smaller scope and could have been something to behold. It is worth the watch, though, if you have a curiosity about this piece of Spanish history.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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C
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Duse
(2025)
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Hector A. Gonzalez
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Throughout Duse, you feel Marcello’s admiration for the theater legend... However, the picture is quite contrived in its approach to tell this part of Duse’s life.
Posted Oct 23, 2025
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B
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Good Fortune
(2025)
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Maxance Vincent
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Even with an aggressively paint-by-numbers screenplay, Ansari knows he’ll be getting something entertaining with such a well-mounted cast, and he mostly succeeds.
Posted Oct 14, 2025
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C-
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Scarlet
(2025)
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Hector A. Gonzalez
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Through distrust and simplicity lies Scarlet, which has many things on its side, yet falters from its lack of commitment.
Posted Oct 13, 2025
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B+
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Hedda
(2025)
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Shaurya Chawla
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DaCosta does succeed in creating a morally complex and ethically fascinating character study of a complex and fascinating woman who has been analyzed and studied for years
Posted Oct 13, 2025
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B
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Queen Kelly
(1929)
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Jacob Mauceri
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Queen Kelly is a masterpiece that was deprived of its ability to grow.
Posted Oct 13, 2025
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D
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Killing Faith
(2025)
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Zach Youngs
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Killing Faith wants to be unique. It wants to have a genre sandwich, but instead of the layers of genre fixings piled into a neat package, they spill out in odd ways and the whole thing falls apart.
Posted Oct 13, 2025
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B
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Roofman
(2025)
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Ben Miller
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It might not be as serious as Cianfrance’s previous efforts, but Roofman provides a welcome change of pace from the director.
Posted Oct 13, 2025
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A-
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
(2025)
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Dave Giannini
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Kiss of the Spider Woman, like film, is many things. It is a beautiful, colorful love story. It is also a warning.
Posted Oct 13, 2025
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B+
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Is This Thing On?
(2025)
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Will Bjarnar
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...it's worth remembering that we should all be afforded the opportunity to explode every once and a while, and Is This Thing On? is sure to tap the mic on that front...
Posted Oct 11, 2025
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D+
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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
(2025)
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M.N. Miller
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We are treated to a film that is almost arrogantly self-indulgent, borrowing its structure so blatantly from better works that I call it grand theft.
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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D+
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HIM
(2025)
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M.N. Miller
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A hollow mess of style over substance that even the best intentions cannot save.
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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A-
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Love, Brooklyn
(2025)
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James D. Williams
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Due to the vulnerability and the comedic skill that Nicole Beharie brings to her role as Casey, I don’t think that there’s another actress that could’ve done a better job portraying this complex character.
Posted Oct 09, 2025
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B-
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Pillion
(2025)
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Hector A. Gonzalez
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While other directors in the past might have treated this scene with a judgmental or stereotypical eye, Lighton protects those who gave him entry into that world by treating them with respect.
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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A-
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Anemone
(2025)
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JD Duran
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Any time a film wants to be patient to linger in what's unsaid and the power of that peformantively, I'm 100% there. Especially when the one driving that is Daniel Day-Lewis!
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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C
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The Smashing Machine
(2025)
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JD Duran
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The screenplay and editing are utterly baffling to me. The film jumps around without any rhyme or reason, and much of it is in service of nothing.
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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A
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Twinless
(2025)
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JD Duran
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Dylan O'Brien seriously gives one of the best performances of 2025.
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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A+
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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JD Duran
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One Battle After Another is another masterpiece from Paul Thomas Anderson.
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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C
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Eleanor the Great
(2025)
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JD Duran
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I know this was personal for Scarlett Johansson and that she's been wanting to direct, but much of this feels directionless.
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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B
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The Long Walk
(2025)
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JD Duran
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When the film is simply acting as a Richard Linklater-esque walk-and-talk, it is genuinely enthralling.
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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C+
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Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
(1983)
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Alex Papaioannou
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Henry Jaglom’s Can She Bake A Cherry Pie? is a wonderful jaunt through the Upper West Side of New York City in the early ‘80s.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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B
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Mr. Blake, at Your Service!
(2023)
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Jaylan Salah
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It’s a heartwarmer, maybe it targets a senior citizen audience more than the average moviegoer, but it’s still a unique slice of life indie film about healing.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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C+
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Dead of Winter
(2025)
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Megan Loucks
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Overall, Dead of Winter is worth a watch for Thompson’s performance—a rare role that older women are offered—and she excels.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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C
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
(2025)
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Will Bjarnar
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Like the film, and the many people who confusedly stare at Bruce as he silently processes his emotions throughout, the answers to the questions asked are known if not vocalized. Perhaps the masses will have more courage to say them out loud in its place.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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B
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Good Boy
(2025)
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Joshua Mbonu
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Even with small qualms holding it back from something greater, Good Boy remains a solid venture into a fresh horror concept that has a strong message of our bond with pets at its center.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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C
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Time Travel Is Dangerous
(2024)
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Zach Youngs
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The strange, wonderful clips of Ralph and Robert’s show save some of it and the folks in T.E.S.T.I.S. save some more, but all in all it’s a bit of a shrug.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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C
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Shell
(2024)
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Megan Loucks
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With films out there touching on the subject of altering one’s appearance for society’s acceptance in more compelling ways, Shell falls short of standing out.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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B
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The Summer Book
(2024)
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Zach Youngs
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The Summer Book is a movie that is beautifully crafted. It’s definitely a film that you have to sit with patiently as if it’s a shy pet you want to come to you.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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B+
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Blue Moon
(2025)
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Alex Papaioannou
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Blue Moon is both celebratory and funereal, and how Linklater balances the two clashing tones so effortlessly reaffirms why he’s one of the all-time great filmmakers.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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B
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Late Fame
(2025)
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Will Bjarnar
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Or, maybe, it’s just about art: What it gives us when we’re making it, takes away when we stop, and continues to provide as we consume it from afar, no matter how ardently we subconsciously long to return to the beautiful chaos that it produced.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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B
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Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5
(2025)
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Maxance Vincent
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You probably knew that society is screwed before you saw Orwell 2+2 = 5. Yet, after viewing Peck’s documentary, which contains an extraordinary lucidity in its line of thinking, [...] you’re definitely never going to think otherwise again.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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