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Jake Cole

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The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) 78% 2.5.4 EDIT “The film has the zero-calorie comfort of its predecessor, even if it leaves you feeling hungry half an hour later. ” – Slant Magazine Apr 29, 2026 Full Review Bend of the River (1952) 100% EDIT “Anthony Mann’s second collaboration with James Stewart begins as a relatively straightforward western through the lens of manifest destiny.” – Slant Magazine Apr 24, 2026 Full Review Innerspace (1987) 81% EDIT “One of the funniest aspects of Innerspace is how elaborately over-plotted it is.” – Slant Magazine Apr 6, 2026 Full Review The Muppet Movie (1979) 89% 3.5/5 EDIT “The egotism of it all should be noxious, but the sheer affability of the Muppets’ brand of comedy wins out; this may be a party for the rich and famous, but you’re invited too.” – Slant Magazine Apr 6, 2026 Full Review Soldier (1998) 19% EDIT “The draw here, as with much of Paul W.S. Anderson’s work, is the intricate production design and how cleanly the director frames it in action sequences. ” – Slant Magazine Apr 1, 2026 Full Review The Blade (1995) EDIT “Tsui Hark’s The Blade isn’t so much a revisionist take on a Shaw Brothers wuxia as a distillation of the critiques embedded in the genre’s most popular classics.” – Slant Magazine Mar 24, 2026 Full Review A Bridge Too Far (1977) 61% EDIT “Richard Attenborough’s war epic is a fascinating mix of aesthetic and tonal contradictions.” – Slant Magazine Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 94% 2.5/4 EDIT “Phil Lord and Christopher Miller put a comedic spin on Andy Weir’s more straightforward 2021 novel Project Hail Mary, recasting the author’s hopeful vision of productive communication with extraterrestrials as an unlikely buddy comedy.” – Slant Magazine Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Testament (1983) 90% EDIT “Originally produced for PBS’s American Playhouse, Lynne Littman’s Testament is one of that program’s standout entries, a vision of nuclear apocalypse whose horrors are felt rather than seen.” – Slant Magazine Mar 9, 2026 Full Review In the Blink of an Eye (2026) 16% 1/4 EDIT “Andrew Stanton's film feels less like a film than a commercial for life insurance that got out of hand.” – Slant Magazine Feb 25, 2026 Full Review Dracula (2025) 54% 1.5/4 EDIT “Not even a typically scenery-chewing Christoph Waltz can enliven the proceedings.” – Slant Magazine Feb 1, 2026 Full Review Once a Thief (1991) 50% EDIT “Once a Thief is an outlier in Woo’s mature period, closer in spirit to his pre-breakthrough workman era making comedic genre pictures.” – Slant Magazine Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Bullet in the Head (1990) 89% EDIT “John Woo draws liberally from the trove of Vietnam War movies, staging epic battles in villages with overt cues to Apocalypse Now and mirroring The Deer Hunter’s structure of slow psychological unraveling among friends. ” – Slant Magazine Jan 27, 2026 Full Review American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez (2026) 100% B- EDIT “Archival footage shows Valdez as an energetic presence in theaters and the frontlines of civil rights protests, and he retains much of that spry quality in the present as an 84-year-old gregariously telling his life story.” – IndieWire Jan 22, 2026 Full Review The Fall of Otrar (1991) EDIT “The film often conveys an intense claustrophobia befitting the siege campaign that brought the walled city of Otrar to its knees.” – Slant Magazine Jan 17, 2026 Full Review Chronicle of the Years of Embers (1975) EDIT “The 1975 film never loses sight of the immense cost of gaining one’s freedom.” – Slant Magazine Jan 17, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 78% 3/4 EDIT “The film's legible direction and steady escalation of tension makes for an enjoyably retro diversion.” – Slant Magazine Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Out of the Past (1947) 87% A EDIT “One of the quintessential works in a genre riddled with decay.” – Movie Mezzanine Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Young Mothers (2025) 95% 3/4 EDIT “Young Mothers is a welcome return to form for the Dardenne brothers, balancing social observation with character study.” – Slant Magazine Jan 4, 2026 Full Review The Ladykillers (1955) 100% EDIT “The greatest joy remains the sight of Alec Guinness’s self-style Marcus constantly adapting on the fly as the gang’s ruse unravels.” – Slant Magazine Dec 12, 2025 Full Review The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) 100% EDIT “Crichton’s stellar heist caper presents Holland’s crime as a belated attempt at self-actualization by a man who’s lived his life to this point passively.” – Slant Magazine Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) 78% EDIT “The depiction of Pee-wee making hostile environments a little kinder is all the more endearing for the goofy and slightly surreal flights of fancy that characterize the film.” – Slant Magazine Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Scarlet (2025) 73% 2/4 EDIT “n paper, anime master Hosoda Mamoru’s Scarlet sounds positively electrifying.” – Slant Magazine Dec 7, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 75% EDIT “While The Abyss operates as a two-pronged thalassaphobic thriller and philosophical treatise on alien life, its driving force is the reconciliation between Lindsey and Bud as harrowing circumstances force them back together. ” – Slant Magazine Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Hell's Angels (1930) 76% EDIT “Hell’s Angels spares few thoughts for empty patriotism.” – Slant Magazine Nov 14, 2025 Full Review
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