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The Devils (1971) Mark Chalon Smith Russell is really interested in examining religious hypocrisy and, although his methods are sensationalistic, he makes valid points about man’s difficulty reflecting God’s image.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
From Beyond (1986) Dennis Hunt Isn't quite as wild [as Re-Animator] but it's still Grade-A B-picture horror.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
RZA's One Spoon of Chocolate (2025) Tim Grierson One Spoon of Chocolate looks hard at America’s racist past and present, but without the ingenuity or steely nerve of the Wu’s finest moments.
Posted May 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Omaha (2025) Robert Abele Magaro, a chameleonic actor, has always borne an authenticity that naturally draws focus, but “Omaha” makes stellar use of how good he is with characters who push back against the camera’s ability to penetrate.
Posted May 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Animal Farm (2025) Robert Abele It’s hard to imagine adults who are nostalgic about the text being won over anew, or children realizing what was so classic about these talking animals in the first place.
Posted May 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Hokum (2026) Amy Nicholson I’ve seen too many protagonists skulk down dark hallways, but McCarthy’s version of that shot is so visceral that you feel like he’s really been there. You can smell the mildew.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Raising Arizona (1987) Dennis Hunt It's another artistic triumph for The Coen brothers.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Faces of Death (1978) Dennis Hunt Watching all those death becomes boring after a whole. It's true overkill.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) Amy Nicholson I wonder what Wintour will make of this diminished avatar pursuing the same promotion that she herself just claimed at Condé Nast as global head of content. Content is to prestige journalism what Shein is to Chanel.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Top Gun (1986) Michael Wilmington "Top Gun" is a male bonding adventure movie that's both exciting and disturbing, mind-boggling and vacuous.
Posted Apr 28, 2026  Edit critic review
Amrum (2025) Robert Abele For all of us wondering when an ugly time will fade, the moment will resonate like a cautious, dawning hope.
Posted Apr 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Over Your Dead Body (2026) Tim Grierson To be sure, Segel and Weaving are much more winning once their characters start warming to one another. Still, the film feels like a missed opportunity for Weaving.
Posted Apr 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Wasteman (2025) Tim Grierson The movie’s bitterest irony is that, of the two men, it’s ultimately Dee who may be more honorable.
Posted Apr 27, 2026  Edit critic review
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978) Linda Gross "The Bad News Bears Go to Japan" is a very good second sequel.
Posted Apr 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Fuze (2025) Amy Nicholson While the outro feels tacked on, upon reflection, it’s the missing piece that transforms the movie from a puzzle into a proclamation on group cohesion. Only afterward does it hit us that Mackenzie has really made a thriller about trust.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Michael (2026) Amy Nicholson Suffocating nepotism might be the only way for now to capture someone as singularly strange as Jackson — if Jaafar delivered a line reading that wasn’t note perfect, it’s likely that someone in his clan would pipe up and say so.
Posted Apr 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Mile End Kicks (2025) Sergio Burstein Chandler Levack's second film as director and screenwriter is based on her own experiences, which gives it an air of authenticity that is not easy to achieve in productions of this kind. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Mother Mary (2026) Sergio Burstein Let's not be mistaken; "Mother Mary" has some absolutely brilliant moments, but almost all of them have to do with visual and technical aspects...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) Sergio Burstein We would have liked more clarity in a story that reveals several narrative gaps, that doesn't have a satisfactory ending, and that sometimes deviates too recklessly from what one might expect from a film like this to delve into. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Erupcja (2025) Robert Abele The characters may get bounced around a bit and some will feel stranded, but you’ll know you’ve been taken somewhere new by this charming indie.
Posted Apr 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Lorne (2026) Robert Abele The result is an ode of sorts to elusive bossdom, where the cryptic may remain cryptic, decoded just enough to let us appreciate the achievement.
Posted Apr 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) Joshua Rothkopf All these moments are good for audience groans and there’s an enjoyable bad movie here for the seizing.
Posted Apr 17, 2026  Edit critic review
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977) Charles Champlin Never has a sequel looked so much like a sequel.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Exit 8 (2025) Robert Abele With its bed made just so, “Exit 8” has a refreshing ambition: It wants to be both a purgatory and an advancement in form. When it smoothly moves between the two, it feels like a singular commentary on life’s deceptive banalities.
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
The Stranger (2025) Robert Abele It’s an added shading, an honest commentary, that feels right, as if it were there all along in the DNA of this well-traveled tale of existential concern, just waiting to be uncovered.
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Diabolic (2025) Sergio Burstein It is certainly appreciated that, instead of plunging all its night scenes into impenetrable darkness, Phillips has had the good sense to adequately illuminate what he shows us, as if he had nothing to hide. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
The Christophers (2025) Amy Nicholson Out of magnanimity, I’ll liken this trifle to a Rothko. The more I think about "The Christophers," the more I imagine it has interesting layers. But I won’t fault anyone who just sees a simple square.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Faces of Death (2026) Amy Nicholson As ever, the most terrifying element in a web-based thriller isn’t the people onscreen. It’s the desensitized, anonymous messages in the chat box devouring the carnage.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Victor/Victoria (1982) Sheila Benson Victor/Victoria is crammed with many layered observations, enough to make it a watershed film for mainstream audiences.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Grease 2 (1982) Kevin Thomas Grease 2 amounts to no more than a role reversal of the original.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
On Moonlight Bay (1951) John L. Scott Amusing adventures of Booth Tarkington's pre-World War I characters plus popular songs of the period (1917) sung by Doris Day and Gordon MacRae are combined in a diverting film.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
The Mouthpiece (1932) Norbert Lusk It is excellent entertainment which just misses being extraordinary.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Towering Inferno (1974) Charles Champlin $14 million worth of Holy Cow! Spend more -- efficiently -- and you get more. More stars, more effects, more scale, more suspense, more crises, more impact, more of that feeling the foyer that you have your ticket's worth and then some.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Muppet Movie (1979) Charles Champlin What is remarkable about "The Muppet Movie" is that it is an opening out into the larger world, yet the Muppets are not only not dwarfed by all outdoors, they dominate it by their verve, charm and spunky character.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Blue Trail (2025) Amy Nicholson Anyone with a high-concept idea and a low production budget should study how "The Blue Trail" creates the sense of massive, fascistic machinery with a few pennies’ worth of props
Posted Apr 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Yes (2025) Joshua Rothkopf Yes won’t sway any hardliners but it should convince anyone with eyes of the absurdity of trying to write a hate song, even as Y screams its vicious lyrics into the wind.
Posted Apr 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Kontinental '25 (2025) Robert Abele Jude is hardly precious about his craft. But that’s because he’s confident you’ll leave bursting with thoughts and feelings about the price of progress, the weight of history and the ways we struggle to do right amid so much that’s wrong.
Posted Apr 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Fantasy Life (2025) Robert Abele A modest yet amusingly spiky round trip from Manhattan to Martha’s Vineyard, it has the trappings of a rom-com but a trickier soulfulness about its unlikely connection.
Posted Apr 03, 2026  Edit critic review
The Drama (2026) Amy Nicholson "The Drama" is the movie equivalent of a half-glass of Champagne: a toast Borgli trusts us to decide whether its ideas are half-empty or half-full. I’ll raise my cup to full, but only because of how pleasurably it bubbles.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Pal Joey (1957) Edwin Schallert "Pal Joey" is bright, smart and ingenious up to its last few minutes. It is also a racy and ribald screen show. Audiences will, in the main, find the picture, unusually entertaining, though they will probably not feel especially inspired.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Alpha (2025) Tim Grierson As “Alpha” reaches its stylish, dreamlike ending, she hits upon an absorbing final image that suggests the collective sorrow and emotional devastation our recent plague years have wrought.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) Robert Abele “The AI Doc” is a well-intentioned but aggravating soup of information and opinion that wants to move at the speed of machine thought.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Palestine '36 (2025) Robert Abele As overdue tales of history go, “Palestine ‘36” is certainly more of a blunt instrument than a novelistic endeavor. But its broad strokes and rooted passions easily earn their place, and deserve to inspire more such stories.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Two Prosecutors (2025) Tim Grierson Many viewers will correctly predict this young lawyer’s fate, but Loznitsa isn’t after plot twists; he’s more interested in the gut punch of the inevitable.
Posted Mar 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Bad News Bears (1976) Kevin Thomas Bright, pugnacious and utterly realistic as most children seem to be today, these kids are drawn with much accuracy and are played beautifully.
Posted Mar 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Second Civil War (1997) Howard Rosenberg "The Second Civil War" mingles broad humor with political and social commentary in ways rare for television, delivering a very funny satire.
Posted Mar 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Hollywood Boulevard (1976) Kevin Thomas An outrageous, often hilarious spoof of the zany world of low-budget exploitation film-making.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Miroirs No. 3 (2025) Robert Abele Somewhat miraculously, we’re carried out of this consequential collision of hearts and minds on the lightest of notes, with the sense that our capacity to rediscover harmony will always be beautifully mysterious.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) Amy Nicholson No spoilers, but it’s no coincidence that "Here I Come" finally gets more interesting once it tires of hide and seek. Finding a fresh plot twist is the only way it ekes out a draw.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
House II: The Second Story (1987) Michael Wilmington The cleverest thing about "House II: The Second Story" is its title.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
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