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3/4
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Birds of War
(2026)
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Bill Chambers
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Birds of War remains compelling throughout because the suspense transfers from Habak and his dangerous lifestyle to the marriage and its chances of survival.
Posted May 05, 2026
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2.5/4
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Steal This Story, Please!
(2025)
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Angelo Muredda
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Steal This Story, Please! is much more interesting when Deal and Lessin hone in on some of Goodman’s more singular, quixotic pursuits.
Posted May 05, 2026
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2.5/4
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When a Witness Recants
(2026)
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Angelo Muredda
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Porter’s purpose in arranging this would-be reconciliation is unclear, but her failure is more engrossing than her success might have been.
Posted May 05, 2026
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3/4
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Black Zombie
(2026)
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Angelo Muredda
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As impressive as this intricate latticework of writers, filmmakers, priests, and intellectuals may be, at times Bedward struggles to knit together the stubbornly disparate threads of genre history and anti-colonial critique.
Posted Apr 28, 2026
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0/4
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Michael
(2026)
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Walter Chaw
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Failing the honesty test, Michael fails the “portrait of the artist” test as well.
Posted Apr 28, 2026
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3.5/4
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Trauma or, Monsters All
(2026)
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Walter Chaw
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It's heartbreaking by itself, but taken with the three earlier films, it looks very much like a masterpiece.
Posted Apr 24, 2026
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3.5/4
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Lee Cronin's The Mummy
(2026)
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Walter Chaw
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The Mummy is sticky. It’s about something. Maybe a great many things.
Posted Apr 24, 2026
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3/4
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The Christophers
(2025)
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Angelo Muredda
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It’s a puckish, intellectually rigorous two-hander about art, criticism, and influence that goes down as easily as his pop hits but lingers in the rearview like his deeper dramatic experiments.
Posted Apr 20, 2026
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3/4
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Palestine '36
(2025)
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Angelo Muredda
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As diagrammatic as Palestine ’36 can sometimes be, there’s an elegance and a grace to these contrasts that cast the grandness of Jacir’s canvas of a people in crisis into relief.
Posted Apr 07, 2026
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2/4
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The Drama
(2026)
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Angelo Muredda
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Borgli invests these characters with no aesthetics whatsoever, no tastes outside of the knick-knacks in their A24-core home, and no opinions outside of whatever might provoke the next drama.
Posted Apr 07, 2026
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2.5/4
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Project Hail Mary
(2026)
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Walter Chaw
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The middle of the film is the gooey centre of a decadent confection that, despite the nutrition label promising some good-for-you sciencing-the-hell-out-of-it competency porn, is awfully saccharine.
Posted Apr 02, 2026
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2.5/4
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Hoppers
(2026)
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Walter Chaw
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Before it lets the air out of itself, Hoppers is frequently hilarious.
Posted Apr 02, 2026
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2/4
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Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
(2026)
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Walter Chaw
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In the fashion of sequels, Ready or Not 2 is more a magnification than an enrichment: the same volume of liquid spread a mile wide, creating a much shallower pool.
Posted Mar 28, 2026
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3.5/4
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Ready or Not
(2019)
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Walter Chaw
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The pleasures of Ready or Not include Weaving’s performance, the wittiness of Guy Busick and Christopher Murphy’s script, and the clockwork pacing.
Posted Mar 28, 2026
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1/4
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THE BRIDE!
(2026)
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Walter Chaw
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The ideas in The Bride! have all been done, and done better, in movies more coherent, more graceful, and less head-slappingly obvious in their pedantry.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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1/4
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Scream 7
(2026)
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Walter Chaw
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Scream 7 is just cheap exploitation garbage with a generous budget and a fading pedigree.
Posted Mar 09, 2026
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2/4
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The 40 Year-Old Virgin
(2005)
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Bill Chambers
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I suspect the filmmakers patted themselves on the back for managing to sell mainstream audiences on the introverted Andy, but they achieve this mainly by betraying the character’s intelligence for cheap laughs.
Posted Feb 18, 2026
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2/4
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
(2025)
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Walter Chaw
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Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a mess.
Posted Feb 14, 2026
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2/4
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Bride of Re-Animator
(1990)
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Bryant Frazer
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Bride of Re-Animator is surely one of the biggest missed opportunities in the history of franchise filmmaking.
Posted Feb 11, 2026
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2.5/4
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Send Help
(2026)
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Walter Chaw
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Send Help doesn’t deliver on its considerable promise.
Posted Feb 02, 2026
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2.5/4
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Father Mother Sister Brother
(2025)
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Angelo Muredda
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Once you settle into Father Mother Sister Brother‘s relaxed groove and get accustomed to the variations on the theme, there’s an easygoing allure to Jarmusch’s associative approach, as there so often is.
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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1/4
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Anaconda
(2025)
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Walter Chaw
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With its winking cameos, perfunctory narrative skeleton, and exhausted routines, Anaconda ’25 is rancid bait so moribund that no self-respecting anaconda would even consider eating it.
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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1/4
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Song Sung Blue
(2025)
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Walter Chaw
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Song Sung Blue is a perfect bit of awards-season flotsam headed for the Hallmark Channel for the half-interested consumption of an audience needing a palate cleanser between Jennifer Love Hewitt movies.
Posted Dec 29, 2025
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0/4
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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Walter Chaw
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Ignore the offensive parts and what remains of Avatar 3 is a cacophonous mess of sentimental mumbo-jumbo.
Posted Dec 24, 2025
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0.5/4
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Ella McCay
(2025)
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Walter Chaw
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Ella McCay is terrible agitprop, terrible championing of policy wonkery, terrible political satire. It falls out of a boat and misses the ocean.
Posted Dec 24, 2025
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3/4
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Peter Hujar's Day
(2025)
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Angelo Muredda
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Celebrated New York portrait photographer Peter Hujar becomes the subject of a distinctive portrait himself in Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day, a gentle, minor-key experiment in memorializing the everyday.
Posted Dec 17, 2025
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4/4
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No Other Choice
(2025)
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Walter Chaw
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No Other Choice is fun, if typically brutal in that Park Chan-wook way.
Posted Dec 12, 2025
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3.5/4
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Keeper
(2025)
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Walter Chaw
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Perkins is a master of negative space.
Posted Dec 02, 2025
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3.5/4
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Die My Love
(2025)
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Walter Chaw
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Die My Love is a difficult film to like. Thank God.
Posted Dec 02, 2025
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4/4
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Predator: Badlands
(2025)
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Walter Chaw
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It’s true, there’s a giant, beating heart in the middle of what could have been another hollow exploitation of our lamented childhoods.
Posted Nov 13, 2025
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2.5/4
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
(2025)
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Walter Chaw
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When this movie works, it works so well, although it won’t speak to everyone, and Cooper shouldn’t have tried to force it to.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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1.5/4
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Eternity
(2025)
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Bill Chambers
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Once established, Eternity‘s love triangle offers no further turns of the screw: Joan must simply pick a lane.
Posted Nov 03, 2025
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2/4
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Dead Man's Wire
(2025)
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Bill Chambers
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Dead Man's Wire has some of that Dog Day electricity up front but is too low-stakes and underpopulated to sustain it, no matter how many multimedia you-are-there inserts Van Sant cuts to from news crews and the like.
Posted Nov 03, 2025
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1/4
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Good Fortune
(2025)
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Walter Chaw
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Keke Palmer is woefully wasted.
Posted Oct 28, 2025
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2/4
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After the Hunt
(2025)
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Angelo Muredda
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Guadagnino and Garrett’s characterization of these scholars’ work is pitiful.
Posted Oct 22, 2025
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2/4
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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
(2025)
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Walter Chaw
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A House of Dynamite has the whole world as its big blind, and yet it feels like there aren’t any stakes at all.
Posted Oct 22, 2025
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2.5/4
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The Furious
(2025)
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Angelo Muredda
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Like Miao’s performance, The Furious does precisely what it’s asked to do and nothing more; who could complain?
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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1.5/4
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The Ugly
(2024)
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Angelo Muredda
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The Ugly is thrown into a full-blown panic attack by the aesthetic challenge posed by something as simple as depicting its disabled characters moving through the world.
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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1.5/4
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Play Dirty
(2025)
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Walter Chaw
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Play Dirty is a non-starter.
Posted Oct 14, 2025
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3/4
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Miroirs No. 3
(2025)
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Angelo Muredda
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Like the song Max is obsessed with, the film is creepy, but it keeps you dreaming.
Posted Oct 14, 2025
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3/4
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Obsession
(2025)
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Bill Chambers
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I like how Obsession more or less skips the honeymoon phase and goes straight to the irony of Bear’s wish coming true, in all its hollowness and imprecise syntax.
Posted Oct 07, 2025
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3.5/4
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The Sun Rises on Us All
(2025)
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Bill Chambers
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A devastating adult drama, The Sun Rises on Us All is also a uniquely pulpy one.
Posted Oct 07, 2025
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4/4
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Walter Chaw
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More than upbeat, it’s inspirational: a call to action, an invitation to the dance.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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1.5/4
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Tron
(1982)
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Bill Chambers
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If a few sequences still captivate, the overall feeling of the film is one of a grimy datedness and a decided lack of impetus.
Posted Oct 01, 2025
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3.5/4
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Blue Moon
(2025)
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Angelo Muredda
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There’s a genuine thematic weight to the moments where Hart’s height disparity from the people he admires puts him at a remove.
Posted Sep 29, 2025
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2.5/4
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Bugonia
(2025)
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Walter Chaw
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I don’t know who Bugonia is for: I think it’ll disappoint fans of the original and of Lanthimos, and I think it’ll be as alien for neophytes and normies as a typically horrifying Lanthimos joint would have been.
Posted Sep 29, 2025
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4/4
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Walter Chaw
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Frankenstein is the film Guillermo del Toro was meant to make.
Posted Sep 24, 2025
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2/4
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The Smashing Machine
(2025)
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Angelo Muredda
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The problem is that outside of the acute depiction of opiate addiction and recovery and this amusingly incongruous portrait of a strong yet sensitive and soft-spoken man there’s too little here to justify the project.
Posted Sep 18, 2025
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2.5/4
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The Long Walk
(2025)
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Walter Chaw
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If it's a warning, The Long Walk is too late. If it's a documentary, it offers no fresh insights. Greed and violence have broken America? Got it. Does The Long Walk resonate as an object, though? That I could possibly get behind.I
Posted Sep 18, 2025
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3/4
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The Testament of Ann Lee
(2025)
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Angelo Muredda
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The Testament of Ann Lee is a pleasantly odd text.
Posted Sep 15, 2025
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