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8/10
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Dead Lover
(2025)
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Gregory Nussen
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At once wretched, beguiling in its vileness, hopelessly romantic, and fascinatingly disgusting, Dead Lover cements Glowicki as one of Canada's most exciting voices.
Posted Mar 20, 2026
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7/10
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Mr. Burton
(2025)
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Alex Harrison
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The film may not always conquer its genre's tendency toward oversimplification, but what complexity makes it to the screen is enough to come away from it with something to chew on.
Posted Mar 20, 2026
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8/10
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Touch Me
(2025)
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Grant Hermanns
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Even as Heimann spends plenty of time rounding out his central characters, he doesn't focus all of his attention there, also making Touch Me a truly out-of-this-world visual experience.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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6/10
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Phoenix Jones: The Rise and Fall of a Real Life Superhero
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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The directorial debut from Bayan Joonam gives Phoenix the space to speak, but the juicier bits are left dangling at the end like a hanging chad.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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7/10
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Crash Land
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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It is a raucous comedy that actually deserves that oft-abused "heart-forward" label. Silly, sweet, and abundantly surprising, Dempsey Bryk's feature debut pulls off a rare stunt indeed.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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8/10
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Adam's Apple
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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Adam’s Apple is a rare and special gem of a documentary.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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6/10
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Tow
(2025)
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Grant Hermanns
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It's something of a disappointment that the film, as a whole, fails to live up to Byrne's great work in it. But it's certainly not a bad film.
Posted Mar 18, 2026
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8/10
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Wishful Thinking
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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Much of this wouldn't work without the two Herculean performances at the center. Lewis Pullman, in particular, is an extraordinary force.
Posted Mar 18, 2026
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8/10
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Sender
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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Lower's work here is especially phenomenal. As Julia, who chugs Celsius energy drinks like milk for a babe, she jitters and slashes her way through psychosis.
Posted Mar 17, 2026
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5/10
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Over Your Dead Body
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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Ultimately, Over Your Dead Body is too messy for its own good. It is unable to settle into any one choice.
Posted Mar 17, 2026
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7/10
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Normal
(2025)
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Gregory Nussen
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Wheatley is such a strong technician that the film easily rises above its, well, normalcy, to become something much more distinct.
Posted Mar 17, 2026
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8/10
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Seekers of Infinite Love
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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Einbinder... turns in a magnificently dialed-in, heart-forward and honest performance. Theroux has rarely been this funny and he somehow makes what could be a cartoonish character feel believable and sympathetic.
Posted Mar 17, 2026
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4/10
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Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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Very little works in Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, in spite of several strong performances.
Posted Mar 16, 2026
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7/10
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Power Ballad
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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Power Ballad continues Carney's long run of success with yet another charmer. Of course, it's easy to charm when you have Paul Rudd as your center.
Posted Mar 15, 2026
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5/10
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Family Movie
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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Being that this is a real family that has worked together for decades, their chemistry elevates the somewhat lackluster writing to deliver a pleasurable, if tame experience.
Posted Mar 15, 2026
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8/10
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Brian
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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From top to bottom, Brian just really works. It knows what game it's playing and does it with grounded honesty and the kind of blistering comedy that can only emanate from a truly genuine place.
Posted Mar 15, 2026
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5/10
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The Saviors
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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Adam Scott and Danielle Deadwyler do what they can to make Hamedani's script zip along, and it is not without pleasure, but the ultimate goal of its critique falls woefully flat.
Posted Mar 14, 2026
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4/10
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Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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If Ready or Not was a chess match, Here I Come is tic-tac-toe.
Posted Mar 14, 2026
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9/10
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The Sun Never Sets
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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Fanning has a special way of presenting someone that can be both open and closed in equal measure... Ultimately, The Sun Never Sets is her film, and she is such an infinitely pleasurable actor to watch that everything else goes down smoothly.
Posted Mar 14, 2026
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9/10
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Kill Me
(2026)
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Grant Hermanns
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Day shines, giving one of his best performances yet in a film that is just as emotionally raw as it is funny.
Posted Mar 13, 2026
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7/10
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I Love Boosters
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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It is, ultimately, a film completely uninterested in subtlety. That's both to its credit and to its detriment.
Posted Mar 13, 2026
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3/10
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The Gates
(2026)
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Grant Hermanns
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The film wants so badly to be a timely exploration of racial and class divisions, but it's so lacking in nuance, subtlety, or intrigue that it not only proves to be aggressively on the nose, but also woefully devoid of any kind of thrills.
Posted Mar 13, 2026
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8/10
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Slanted
(2025)
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Grant Hermanns
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Infused with a sharp exploration of the immigrant experience in America and a smattering of such high school tropes as mean-girl cliques and prom queen competitions, the movie is a wonderfully bonkers ride.
Posted Mar 12, 2026
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8/10
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The Optimist: The Bravest Act Is Truth
(2023)
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Emedo Ashibeze
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Even though this is not Stephen Lang's first biographical role, this is arguably his most restrained and moving performance. His narrating voice carries the weight of horrors endured.
Posted Mar 11, 2026
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5/10
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Reminders of Him
(2026)
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Graeme Guttmann
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It doesn't help that nearly all Reminders of Him's plot is laid bare in the trailers, but even if it hadn't been, it would be largely predictable.
Posted Mar 11, 2026
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5/10
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undertone
(2025)
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Gregory Nussen
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A film which makes extraordinary use of negative space – not just auditory but visual, begging viewers to scan every frame for any possible indication of threat or lurking evil – undertone works best when gnawing at nagging expectations.
Posted Mar 10, 2026
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9/10
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Project Hail Mary
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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As for Ryan Gosling, this is, without a doubt, the eminently charming actor's best work yet.
Posted Mar 10, 2026
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4/10
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Bodycam
(2025)
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Gregory Nussen
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But politically and narratively, it's quite strained. Its runtime is only 75 minutes, but it feels much longer, and never really justifies itself as more than a V/H/S-style short.
Posted Mar 09, 2026
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3/10
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Agent Zero
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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It makes for a particularly bland film when your main character is a mostly inactive participant in their own story. Perhaps the title is inadvertently accurate, then.
Posted Mar 09, 2026
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9/10
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Pompei: Below the Clouds
(2025)
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Gregory Nussen
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The poetry of Rosi's images hits with a church bell's vibrations.
Posted Mar 06, 2026
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4/10
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Protector
(2025)
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Grant Hermanns
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But while it has a mix of fresh and familiar concepts, Protector ultimately still feels too routine to stand out from the crowd.
Posted Mar 06, 2026
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6/10
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War Machine
(2026)
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Alex Harrison
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It doesn't quite have the courage to be the best version of itself. Still, it works. War Machine is an action movie you feel in your body, and it mixes in the right dose of sci-fi VFX without losing sight of the character that keeps you caring.
Posted Mar 06, 2026
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6.5/10
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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
(2026)
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Jordan Williams
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The Tom Harper-directed The Immortal Man plays more like a visually stunning, extended additional episode of season 6, but struggles to balance the weight of the entire original series’ history and story buildup.
Posted Mar 05, 2026
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7/10
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Youngblood
(2025)
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Gregory Nussen
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Sure, the film still skates along the familiar grooves of an underdog story, but the context of the film's production within a culture of exclusion elevates the material above its clichés.
Posted Mar 04, 2026
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8/10
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THE BRIDE!
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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Gyllenhaal's second feature is an explosive representation of social disruption. A screaming cry, The Bride! utilizes its influences to belt a clarion call against hedonism, police complicity, violence against women, and the patriarchal system that binds.
Posted Mar 04, 2026
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4/10
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Dolly
(2025)
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Grant Hermanns
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More troublesome is just how thinly written Dolly's script is. Making the leap from a short to a feature-length story is certainly no easy task, and Blackhurst and Weavil do a few engaging things with the longer material.
Posted Mar 04, 2026
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7/10
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Hoppers
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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Daniel Chong's film isn't perfect, but it reaches such a strange fever pitch of hilarity and political prescience that it demands respect.
Posted Mar 02, 2026
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4/10
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In the Blink of an Eye
(2026)
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Emedo Ashibeze
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Poignant as these stakes may be, the presentation of this message doesn’t sting well enough to justify skin-deep characters.
Posted Mar 02, 2026
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8/10
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A Body to Live In
(2025)
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Gregory Nussen
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Yet, despite the intense acts depicted on the screen, A Body to Live In is a surprisingly smooth watch thanks to its careful attention to the intentionality of a trailblazer.
Posted Feb 27, 2026
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8/10
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Paul McCartney: Man on the Run
(2025)
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Gregory Nussen
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It's a beautiful film that entertains in as much measure as it deconstructs an often untouchable icon, making him seem more human, and thus, more impressive.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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7/10
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The Napa Boys
(2025)
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Gregory Nussen
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If this all sounds rather asinine, it's because it is, but very much by intelligent design. But most of the hard plot points are merely springboards for Corirossi, Weitzman and their impeccable cast to wander in persistently surprising ways.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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3/10
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Scream 7
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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Scream 7 injects nostalgia and self-referentiality like a weak drug, a stash of weed purchased so long ago it has gone so stale it crumbles to the touch.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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8/10
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Micro Budget
(2024)
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Gregory Nussen
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Micro Budget is packed with superstar improvisers, immortalizing the no-budget film set life through the eyes and ears of a team of the stupidest possible people. It's a deliriously perfect, laugh-a-second satire.
Posted Feb 25, 2026
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3/10
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Undercard
(2025)
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Gregory Nussen
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The film's first half hits its beats fine, if without uniqueness, but the back half is packed to the gills with every requisite trope one can think of for an underdog sports film.
Posted Feb 25, 2026
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7/10
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Ghost Elephants
(2025)
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Gregory Nussen
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Ghost Elephants is an almost diaristic documentary, eschewing normal pathways for a more esoteric exploration of survival, science, intuition and mortality.
Posted Feb 24, 2026
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4/10
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Dreams
(2025)
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Gregory Nussen
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Dreams deconstructs the parasitic relationship between the 1% and undocumented immigrants with club-footed grace.
Posted Feb 24, 2026
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7/10
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The Bluff
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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The script, by Flowers and Joe Ballarini, is mostly bare-bones, with an appreciable efficiency, quickly becoming a ninety-minute showcase for extremely tense, bloody fight choreography.
Posted Feb 23, 2026
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1/10
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Psycho Killer
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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Psycho Killer is filled with stilted and cartoonish performances, and, for all of its genuflecting towards satanic panic and its own seediness, it is an extremely dry and normal affair.
Posted Feb 19, 2026
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5/10
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Midwinter Break
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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To put it simply: it's just not very stimulating to watch two people who have a hard time talking... have a hard time talking.
Posted Feb 18, 2026
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4/10
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How to Make a Killing
(2026)
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Gregory Nussen
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A surprisingly bland film that somehow manages to dampen even Glen Powell's usual brand of effortless charm, How to Make a Killing is sketched together with thin characterizations, limp commentary and a sluggish pace.
Posted Feb 18, 2026
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