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Cinapse is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Dan Tabor, Ed Travis, Julian Singleton, Matthew Jackson, Mel Valentin.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) Dan Tabor Ready or Not 2 understands exactly what it needs to be: mean, fast, a little unhinged, and just self-aware enough to keep the satire sharp. It raises the stakes without losing the thread, builds out its world without completely suffocating it.
Posted Mar 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Hokum (2026) Julian Singleton Few films can be terrifying, hilarious, or moving on their own–but that McCarthy pulls off all three with surprising balance within the full trappings of horror speaks to the deft, exhilarating spell he casts with Hokum.
Posted Mar 20, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Leviticus (2026) Julian Singleton Adrian Chiarella’s debut feature is a testament to the elemental power of Queer horror, featuring a devilishly simple premise wielded with raw, deeply personal force.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Beast Race (2026) Ed Travis [Beast Race] brings a high level of quality to everything it attempts, and adds a Brazilian specificity... to create a highly watchable new entry in the post apocalyptic cinematic pantheon.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Normal (2025) Ed Travis Normal is what I wanted the Nobody movies to be.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Power Ballad (2026) Julian Singleton Nobody knows the rhythm of our heartstrings quite like John Carney.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) Ed Travis [A] gangster film, rife with heart, character development, and hilarious and personal cultural references.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Never After Dark (2026) Julian Singleton Boyle’s reverence for Japanese Horror tropes is matched only by his eagerness to upend them, making Never After Dark a mind-bending, deeply satisfying addition to the genre.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Over Your Dead Body (2026) Ed Travis One of the most surprising and satisfying scripts we’re likely to get this year.
Posted Mar 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Edie Arnold Is a Loser (2026) Dan Tabor Edie Arnold is a Loser a charming, high-energy coming-of-age crowd-pleaser that wears its heart on its sleeve with distortion on full blast.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Kill Me (2026) Ed Travis Day is somewhat of a revelation in terms of fully embodying a complex lead character.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
The Blade (1995) Ed Travis Damn does [Tsui] Hark seem to have something to say here, and he says it loud with every frame.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Bushido (2024) Ed Travis Bushido is the kind of cinema that makes you want to be a better person.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Whistle (2025) Dan Tabor If you’re steeped in ’90s horror, you know exactly where this is heading, and Whistle takes you there while delivering both unhinged kills and a Gen Z emotional sensibility that gives the characters real weight.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
A Poet (2025) Dan Tabor Ultimately, A Poet lands as a devastating yet life-affirming character study about accountability, artistic longing, and the fragile possibility of redemption.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Sirāt (2025) Dan Tabor Powerful, heartbreaking, and visceral, Sirât shocks as deeply as it resonates on an existential level. It leaves you reeling in its wake, stirring something profound at your core.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Night Nurse (2026) Dan Tabor Night Nurse is exactly the kind of sweaty, smart, deeply uncomfortable erotic thriller that feels destined for cult status. It’s not just provocative—it’s pointed, funny, and disturbingly honest about the desires we pretend don’t exist.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Rock Springs (2026) Dan Tabor Powerful, frightening, and quietly devastating, Rock Springs makes the cost of America’s progress impossible to ignore.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
The Moment (2026) Dan Tabor The Moment ultimately works because it’s less interested in documenting Charli XCX than dismantling her — then rebuilding her on her own terms. It’s a smart, assured, deeply self-aware deconstruction of pop stardom
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Nuisance Bear  (2026) Dan Tabor While Nuisance Bear certainly delivers adorable cubs frolicking in the snow and bears doing mischievous bear stuff, it does so while exposing a complex ecosystem fueled by commerce — one that increasingly resembles exploitation
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Run Amok (2026) Dan Tabor Run Amok is an ambitious and audacious little film that delivers laughs while refusing to shy away from the harder questions beneath them. It’s a delicate balance, but Mager pulls it off,
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Ghost in the Machine (2026) Dan Tabor Writer, director, and producer Valerie Veatch takes a subject that feels completely mined of fresh insight and reveals the terrifying ideology at its core.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Take Me Home (2026) Dan Tabor By centering love instead of limitation, Take Me Home is a quietly devastating reminder of those who society leaves behind—and who still manage to keep going anyway.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Killer Whale (2026) Dan Tabor Killer Whale is a solid slice of genre filmmaking that works not only on a visceral level but an emotional one as well. It understands the hallmarks and tropes of the creature feature and delivers on their promises while offering up fresh melodrama
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Dan Tabor DaCosta delivers a gnarly, ultra-violent sequel packed with scares and substance, cementing her status as one of horror’s most vital voices working today.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
About a Place in the Kinki Region (2025) Julian Singleton Dense with cosmic and emotional horrors lurking at the edges of the frame, Kinki pairs Shiraishi’s signature found-footage frights with confident traditional narrative filmmaking, revealing a bolder formal and thematic ambition than ever before.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) Dan Tabor As a fan of the series, I couldn’t have asked for anything more for Christmas. Mike P. Nelson leans into the ridiculousness of the concept of these films, offering up something that plays by the same rules yet has something more complex to say.
Posted Dec 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) Dan Tabor (Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani) deliver a film that feels like a 90-minute Bond opening sequence — filled with the requisite eroticism and arresting visuals – paired with a narrative as loaded as a pair of headlight-mounted machine guns.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Dan Tabor Guillermo del Toro has added yet another iconic monster to his cinematic curio cabinet and once again proved he is one of the most singular auteurs working today in horror.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Demon Lover Diary (1980) Dan Tabor Demon Lover Diary is a masterclass of what NOT to do in filmmaking, and a scathing and anxiety-inducing snapshot of a troubled production that proves reality is sometimes better than fiction.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Dead Giveaway (2025) Dan Tabor It’s a hilarious and bawdy good time, that surprisingly got some gore as well.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Dan Tabor The Testament of Ann Lee manages to not only show how this offshoot of the Quaker religion found its footing in America, but also work as this poignant story of one woman’s struggle with her faith.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Christy (2025) Dan Tabor While you have this awards caliber performance from Sydney Sweeney – that you would expect, the narrative around her falls short of living up to her moving and transformative take.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Queens of the Dead (2025) Julian Singleton Tina Romero’s Queens of the Dead riotously fuses sharp scares, biting social commentary, and a joyfully silly sense of humor.
Posted Oct 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025) Dan Tabor New director Tatsuya Yoshihara has cracked Tatsuki Fujimoto’s manga delivering his own animated masterwork that explodes on screen.
Posted Oct 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Julian Singleton By honoring not just the iconic spectacle but the aching original thematic substance of Shelley’s text, Guillermo Del Toro reverently crafts the best Frankenstein adaptation to date.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Dan Tabor This is easily Johnson’s best Knives Out film yet. It’s not just a great whodunnit, but he’s able to pair the mystery you’d expect, with a deeply introspective and personal look at faith which couldn’t have been easy.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Nightmare Alley (2021) Julian Singleton [Del Toro's] reverence for noir—and the fading idealism flickering beneath its suffocating shadow—is what makes Nightmare Alley such a bewitching experience.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Bone Lake (2024) Matthew Jackson Bone Lake is a wonderfully contained, ornate little thriller, and a blast to watch.
Posted Oct 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Bone Lake (2024) Dan Tabor Along with the sex and violence, you’d expect, surprisingly there’s a rather intimate look at a couple who’s having some very real and relatable issues.
Posted Oct 06, 2025  Edit critic review
The Curse (2025) Julian Singleton If Pulse and Ring feared technology’s doorway to the unknown, The Curse fixates on how networked life leaves us exposed to the casual malice of complete strangers–and how the average person can be even more horrifying compared to any yurei of yore.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Luger (2025) Julian Singleton Powered by the irresistible bromance of David Sainz and Mario Mayo alongside Bruno Martín’s insightful eye for comedy, chaos, and social critique, Luger is a fast, ferocious caper that tackles weighty topics without ever losing its stylish swagger.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Body Blow (2025) Julian Singleton Body Blow is a feverish, full-body genre grind, provocatively twisting beloved tropes of action thriller cinema to unabashedly hilarious and unashamedly erotic ends.
Posted Sep 30, 2025  Edit critic review
The Holy Boy (2025) Julian Singleton Paolo Strippoli’s third feature may be as visually sparse as the tiny village that cages the film’s narrative, but The Holy Boy remains an emotionally potent and deeply unsettling work of folk horror.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Dildo Heaven (2002) Dan Tabor While the performances are what you’d expect from the sub-genre, without getting too egregious, the narrative works for the most part – and the camp on top is the spoon full of sugar that makes this quirky little oddity as fun as it is.
Posted Sep 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Obsession (2025) Dan Tabor Obsession is easily going to be horror fans’ next obsession. It’s got not only an air tight script with some amazing lore embedded within its narrative, but it’s got some truly nuanced performances bringing it to life.
Posted Sep 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Dolly (2025) Dan Tabor Dolly is a garishly good little slasher that leans into nostalgia and its inspiration just enough, without getting lost in the sauce, which these throwbacks tend to fall victim to.
Posted Sep 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) Dan Tabor Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a surreal cyberpunk masterwork that actually did its homework and isn’t afraid to dig into the more controversial symptoms and consequences of our actions as a society.
Posted Sep 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Fuck My Son! (2025) Dan Tabor The loose narrative is more or less a delivery device for this audio/visual declaration of free speech and war on “Good Taste”, that feels like what watching Pink Flamingos in the 1970s probably felt like.
Posted Sep 28, 2025  Edit critic review
The Restoration at Grayson Manor (2025) Julian Singleton Grayson Manor [is] a gleefully gory crowd-pleaser that deserves to be as much a Pride Month ritual as a late-night horror favorite.
Posted Sep 26, 2025  Edit critic review
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