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Murjani Rawls

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Biography:

New Jersey-born and raised, Murjani is a film, music, and tv critic, author, photographer, and podcast host. He has written for over 15 websites and regularly contributes to Substream Magazine. He is also the editor-in-chief at Deadscreen and has started the Deadscreen podcast. He loves horror films, hummus, good talks about the NBA, and weight lifting.

Location:

New Jersey

Reviews

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Leviticus (2026) 97% EDIT “Chiarella's film depicts the same fits of passion, but with a supernatural twinge to show the hair-on-fire realism to where our tried-and-true tropes lose their muster when everyone does not experience them. ” – Substream Magazine Apr 29, 2026 Full Review Apex (2026) 67% EDIT “The film can’t decide whether it wants us to feel for its heroine’s complicated feelings about loss, hate its antagonist completely, or hold our breath at set pieces that often grow repetitive. ” – Substream Magazine Apr 28, 2026 Full Review Blue Heron (2025) 97% EDIT “The precious and sobering conclusion in Romvari’s debut is that, even with all our tools of preservation, answers still elude us like passing scents in a cool breeze. Yet, we can still appreciate the moments for what they are. ” – Substream Magazine Apr 24, 2026 Full Review Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) 47% EDIT “The film shows flashes of trying to be more than a punishing companion piece to Cronin’s previous film, only to furiously unravel into a pile of bones and dust. ” – Substream Magazine Apr 23, 2026 Full Review Over Your Dead Body (2026) 68% EDIT “It’s Mortal Kombat without a tournament or a world to save, as the reason why we’re here drifts more and more to the background. ” – Substream Magazine Apr 23, 2026 Full Review Michael (2026) 39% EDIT “The totality of what "Michael" embodies robs us of an essential conversation we need to have that shouldn't stop with this film. Are we capable of holding space for loving pieces of art and recognizing that the artists themselves are indeed imperfect?” – Substream Magazine Apr 21, 2026 Full Review Faces of Death (2026) 68% EDIT “The scariest thing, I feel, about Goldhaber’s take is not so much that he shows us how our attention and rage are tools turned against us. It’s that we can’t look away and are gleeful participants in our own destruction. ” – Substream Magazine Apr 7, 2026 Full Review Slanted (2025) 68% EDIT “The film never quite matches the promise or the level of body horror it hints at, or the thorough scrutiny of privilege and how minorities are left paying the price. ” – Substream Magazine Mar 20, 2026 Full Review Wishful Thinking (2026) 100% EDIT “Parkes’s "Wishful Thinking" puts a twist on a recognizable love story, with hard, thoughtful realizations. Adoration can make you feel invincible, but it can only go so far if the journey we call life is leading you to different destinations. ” – Substream Magazine Mar 20, 2026 Full Review Obsession (2025) 96% EDIT “Each element one-ups the other until they reach a cataclysmic finale so bleak that the Globe Theater would be proud. ” – Substream Magazine Mar 20, 2026 Full Review Whistle (2025) 64% EDIT “The film plays a cat-and-mouse game, trying to elicit more explanation but quickly opting for another gruesome sequence - a reflex in which the dog eventually catches the car too many times. ” – Substream Magazine Feb 4, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “The Bone Temple" thoughtfully investigates the methods in which society or figures of power use idolatry as an infection within itself. The battle is not merely between Gods and monsters, but truth and diseased testament standing on opposing sides.” – Substream Magazine Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) 16% EDIT “If "Five Nights at Freddy's 2" were an animatronic robot, it would be lacking both the parts and the power supply to get where it needs to go. ” – Substream Magazine Dec 19, 2025 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 73% EDIT “It's the commitment of all of its parts to the rollercoaster-esque track of the story ventures on - hands waving in the wind and gleefully screaming - where you'll find the experience is worth seeing through. ” – Substream Magazine Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Rosemead (2025) 86% EDIT “The film doesn't try to paint a rosy view or look at the bright side because sometimes there just isn't one. It allows us to sit uncomfortably and think about how desperation and love can drive us to do the unthinkable. ” – Substream Magazine Dec 18, 2025 Full Review It Ends (2025) 100% EDIT “"It Ends" feels that understanding the journey into adulthood comes at a cost. In thinking about the many memories and people you had to jettison to reach what we are told is happiness, you'll question why you had to in the first place. ” – Substream Magazine Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Man Finds Tape (2025) 83% EDIT “While markers within "Man Finds Tape" will feel familiar, it taps into a modern dilemma. We have an insatiable appetite for sleuthing and the many platforms available to keep the (sometimes futile) pursuit of knowledge going. ” – Substream Magazine Dec 1, 2025 Full Review Keeper (2025) 49% EDIT “"Keeper" does become a manifestation of a magic trick. It's thrilling to see initially. But once you discover the ingredients of the execution, the end result loses its hold over you.” – Multipotentiality Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% EDIT “ "For Good" makes the case that nobody wins with pasted-on adaptations, slightly elongated to capitalize on a devoted fandom. ” – Substream Magazine Nov 19, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 61% EDIT “The 2025 iteration puts the spotlight on all of it, but also takes on the spirit of spectacle it’s hoping to damn. ” – Substream Magazine Nov 15, 2025 Full Review Rebuilding (2025) 91% EDIT “You can predict where the film’s quiet thesis is headed, but it doesn’t manage to dilute its effectiveness. As it turns out, remembrance doesn’t take the pain away, but points to overlooked things you should pay attention to. ” – Substream Magazine Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Lurker (2025) 94% EDIT “While "Lurker' isn't pretending to be new in presenting its statement, it's honest. Artists and fans do a discordant dance together, and it's not always a simple motivation that's leading the steps.” – Multipotentiality Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% EDIT “DaCosta lays out a mostly multilayered, fluid construction of Ibsen's original story that resonates throughout the generations. At points, you'll want to tear down the world Hedda lives in, and at other times, you'll wince as she does that to others.” – Substream Magazine Oct 28, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 87% EDIT “Desperation spurns belief in the unfathomable, leaving those who deserve help at odds with morality. Perhaps the end won’t come with a “War of the Worlds” style invasion, but because we are now far too alien to one another. ” – Substream Magazine Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% EDIT ““Deliver Me From Nowhere” is a plane that thrives because of the turbulent, dark skies it finds its way back home within. Yet, the film feels like it would rather be sitting in the safety of the tarmac. ” – Substream Magazine Oct 24, 2025 Full Review
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