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Hoai-Tran Bui

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Hoai-Tran Bui is a news writer and film and TV critic at SlashFilm.com. She has previously written for USA Today, reporting on TV and movies for its EntertainThis blog.

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Over Your Dead Body (2026) 73% EDIT “Over Your Dead Body is caught between Taccone’s goofier comedic stylings and the dark, brutal turn that the story takes. The result is a tonally unbalanced and mismatched movie that never quite earns its brutality.” – Inverse Mar 21, 2026 Full Review Normal (2025) 84% EDIT “Just above-average, thanks to Odenkirk’s action hero bonafides and Wheatley’s punchy and propulsive direction.” – Inverse Mar 21, 2026 Full Review Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) 80% EDIT “If there’s a movie that could embody the word "zany," it’s Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, a madcap time-travel romp that blows the lid off the sci-fi action comedy.” – Inverse Mar 21, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 72% EDIT “A terrifying new thriller for the internet age, one that will stay under your skin long after the credits roll.” – Inverse Mar 16, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% EDIT “A spectacular and spectacularly moving sci-fi blockbuster that occasionally struggles under its big ideas, but is saved by the sheer star power of Ryan Gosling and his adorable alien friend.” – Inverse Mar 10, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% EDIT “It wants so desperately to be novel and provocative, that it forgets to offer anything of substance.” – Inverse Mar 4, 2026 Full Review How to Make a Killing (2026) 43% EDIT “Torn between being the blackest of black comedies or a satire with a soul. it elects to be both, and dulls the sharp edges of its blackly comic premise. But thanks to Glen Powell’s charms...How to Make a Killing manages to mostly get away with murder.” – Inverse Feb 19, 2026 Full Review zi (2026) 68% EDIT “The film’s whisper of a plot and its spontaneous structure allows Kogonada to plumb the dreamy, existential cinematic depths that his films have always explored so well, making Zi feel like a welcome return to form.” – Inverse Feb 4, 2026 Full Review All You Need Is Kill (2025) 83% EDIT “While All You Need Is Kill doesn’t reinvent the wheel when it comes to the time-loop thriller, or indeed even as an adaptation of Sakurazaka’s light novel, it still manages to feel fresh and new” – Inverse Jan 23, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “DaCosta’s grounded, clear-eyed approach unveils the script’s unnerving nihilism. 28 Years Later certainly touched on the cruelty that humans do to each other, but The Bone Temple shows in all its bloody glory the cruelty that was always lying in wait.” – Inverse Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Resurrection (2025) 90% EDIT “Bi Gan has achieved something here that is worth experiencing — a feat of cinematic artistry.” – Inverse Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “A manic, madcap odyssey that is as exhilarating as it is exhausting, Marty Supreme is operating on a level of ballsy absurdity that no other movie this year can dream of touching.” – Inverse Dec 1, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “Anchored by a magnificent Wagner Moura, who delivers one of the knottiest, most complex lead performances of the year, The Secret Agent sneaks up on you — not by virtue of any shocking twists, but simply by how it refuses to be just one thing.” – Inverse Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) 98% EDIT “Little Amélie is a metaphysical wonder. It’s lovely and light and uplifting, and is full of an awe for life.” – Inverse Nov 10, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% EDIT “Lawrence has given numerous tour-de-force performances in her incredible career, but this is one that feels most fitting to describe as a force of nature.” – Inverse Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% EDIT “A magic trick of a blockbuster movie.” – Inverse Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Ballad of a Small Player (2025) 49% EDIT “It’s hyper-stylized and sleazy and sordid, with Farrell’s go-for-broke performance embodying a movie that feels like its tenuous grip on reality could break at any moment and send it hurling into the ether. ” – Inverse Oct 29, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% EDIT “It redefines the heist film by Reichardt’s vision of an America that has since been lost to time.” – Inverse Oct 24, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 98% EDIT “Panahi crafts one of the most prescient and timely films of the year. Its gutting ending is one for the ages, and is the perfect capper for a film that is both an entertaining “revenge” thriller and a filmmaker’s inarguably political statement.” – Inverse Oct 24, 2025 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% EDIT “Byrne is nothing short of spectacular in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, her agonized expression constantly commanding the whole frame that Bronstein constantly gives her.” – Inverse Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% EDIT “As Roofman takes increasingly wacky turns, most of them owing to the truly bizarre turns of the story of Jeffrey Manchester, it’s Cianfrance’s deft touch that maintains the tricky balance between the absurd and the affecting.” – Inverse Oct 16, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% EDIT “While Bigelow ultimately crafts an exercise in relentless tension that’s more immersive than insightful, it’s undeniably effective.” – Inverse Oct 8, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “One Battle After Another is a bracingly relevant, breathlessly propulsive, and deeply layered thriller that manages to transcend its source material. On top of that, it’s entertaining as hell.” – Inverse Sep 17, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 37% EDIT “Loaded with so many stunningly gorgeous images, it may not be as big or bold as it imagines itself to be, but it’s certainly full of a sense of imagination and whimsy that you don’t find in many — or really any — movies these days.” – Inverse Sep 16, 2025 Full Review Happyend (2024) 98% EDIT “A shaggy, beautifully understated film about the resilience of youthful rebellion and ennui in the face of an increasingly bleak future. ” – Inverse Sep 15, 2025 Full Review
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