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1.5/4
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Vampires of the Velvet Lounge
(2026)
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Mark Dujsik
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[I]ts mix of humor and horror comes across as clunky and awkward.
Posted Mar 20, 2026
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3/4
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Two Prosecutors
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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[T]here is plenty of tension in Two Prosecutors, which is impressive since the plot itself does amount to so much waiting ... for meetings...
Posted Mar 20, 2026
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3/4
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The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel
(2026)
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Mark Dujsik
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The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel feels personal and intimate, even within ... its by-the-books structure.
Posted Mar 20, 2026
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2.5/4
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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
(2026)
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Mark Dujsik
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There was probably no way ... to resolve the show's narrative and make a movie that stood on its own, so the movie is a commendable, if unfortunately unsuccessful, effort...
Posted Mar 20, 2026
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3/4
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Late Shift
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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Volpe's film works well as warning ... because it is compelling drama first and foremost.
Posted Mar 20, 2026
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2.5/4
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Tow
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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Tow ... is trying to look at this story from so many angles and without any apparent awareness of the social failings underneath it...
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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2.5/4
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Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
(2026)
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Mark Dujsik
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The new elements are mostly superficial.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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3.5/4
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Project Hail Mary
(2026)
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Mark Dujsik
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Of all the unlikely things about Project Hail Mary, the fact that it becomes the tale of an authentic and emotionally potent friendship is probably the most impressive of all.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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1.5/4
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The Pout-Pout Fish
(2026)
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Mark Dujsik
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The Pout-Pout Fish, with its generic design and animation, features no sense of wonder and, with its bland adventure tale, a real feeling of familiarity.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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3/4
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Palestine '36
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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Writer/director Annemarie Jacir's film attempts ... to provide a counterpoint to what has been considered the official history for decades.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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2.5/4
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Miroirs No. 3
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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[I]t is impossible to avoid and ignore that Petzold's screenplay ... doesn't feel like a complete narrative...
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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2/4
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Meal Ticket
(2026)
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Mark Dujsik
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[T]he movie becomes so trapped in and by the past that it can't see a more pertinent story unfolding right in front of it.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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2/5
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Dead Lover
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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As a fully developed story and comedy ... its one note becomes repetitive quickly.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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2/4
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Reminders of Him
(2026)
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Mark Dujsik
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Once Reminders of Him gets to the real heart of this story, it's a bit of disappointment to realize just how much extraneous stuff there actually is in this tale.
Posted Mar 13, 2026
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2.5/4
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The Gates
(2026)
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Mark Dujsik
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[Writer/director John] Burr almost seems to go out of his way to drop or, at least, soften its early depiction of prejudice by the end of this story.
Posted Mar 13, 2026
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3/4
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Bushido
(2024)
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Mark Dujsik
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The director uses the very nature of the filmmaking to represent the man, his perspective, and his attitude. The director
Posted Mar 13, 2026
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2/4
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Bodycam
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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Bodycam ... [becomes] the cinematic equivalent of an overly predictable haunted house.
Posted Mar 13, 2026
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3/4
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undertone
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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The sound may be the star of Undertone ... but as subtle as it may be by comparison, the visual element of the film highlights why the soundscapes are so eerie.
Posted Mar 12, 2026
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1.5/4
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Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead
(2026)
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Mark Dujsik
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Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead feels like an entire franchise's worth of mythology, as well as two or three entries' worth of boat races, crammed into a single movie.
Posted Mar 12, 2026
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2/4
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Slanted
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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With that basic idea set, writer/director Amy Wang doesn't quite seem to know how to approach it.
Posted Mar 12, 2026
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3/4
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Saipan
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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Saipan doesn't take sides, because that would simplify this surprisingly complicated disagreement between a pair of complex people.
Posted Mar 12, 2026
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3/4
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War Machine
(2026)
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Mark Dujsik
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War Machine ... is quite efficient...
Posted Mar 06, 2026
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1.5/4
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THE BRIDE!
(2026)
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Mark Dujsik
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The Bride! is either an ambitious mess or a bungled one. Either way, the result is, well, a mess.
Posted Mar 06, 2026
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1/4
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Protector
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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Protector doesn't even come across as a finished movie.
Posted Mar 06, 2026
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3/4
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Heel (The Good Boy)
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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This may seem a simple thriller ... but there is something deeper going on...
Posted Mar 06, 2026
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3/4
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Youngblood
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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[T]he film is actually about the sport's effect on its characters and uses its game scenes to reveal its main character's core, as well as his evolution.
Posted Mar 05, 2026
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3.5/4
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Hoppers
(2026)
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Mark Dujsik
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It's a good-hearted film, in addition to being a very funny, genuinely creative, and, to some surprise because of how downright silly it can be, emotionally resonant one.
Posted Mar 05, 2026
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2/4
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Dolly
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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Co-writer/director Rod Blackhurst can't quite maintain the courage of his apparent convictions in Dolly.
Posted Mar 05, 2026
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3/4
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André Is an Idiot
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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Benna may not make much room for grief in the film, but it is, in its own way, an act of mourning.
Posted Mar 05, 2026
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1.5/4
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Scream 7
(2026)
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Mark Dujsik
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[This franchise] needs to move on—not only from the past, but also and mostly from just being a cookie-cutter slasher.
Posted Feb 27, 2026
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0.5/4
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The Napa Boys
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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[T]his is an awful comedy, filled with humor so random and obscure that it almost seems a stretch to think even the cast members understand why these jokes are supposed to be funny.
Posted Feb 27, 2026
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3/4
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In the Blink of an Eye
(2026)
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Mark Dujsik
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[The] film ... takes such a big swing, mostly pulls it off, and does find a genuine sense of hope in the past, present, and future of humanity.
Posted Feb 27, 2026
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2/4
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Idiotka
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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Idiotka ... has chosen the gimmicky approach to its narrative and its humor, and both ... suffer as a result.
Posted Feb 27, 2026
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2.5/4
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Crazy Old Lady
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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[T]he whole movie has a level of uneasiness that has nothing to do with the terrors this character inflicts.
Posted Feb 27, 2026
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1.5/4
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Bring the Law
(2026)
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Mark Dujsik
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[T]he movie's reliance on formula, clichés, and a bunch of characters doing things that make little sense except to keep the plot moving forward are its undoing.
Posted Feb 27, 2026
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1.5/4
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Undercard
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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The production limitations of Undercard kind of reflect the movie's storytelling ones.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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3/4
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Paul McCartney: Man on the Run
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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Man on the Run presents this weird and uncertain time for McCartney as just that...
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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3/4
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K-Pops!
(2024)
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Mark Dujsik
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Co-writer/director/star Anderson .Paak's K-Pops is a real charmer of a film.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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3/4
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Ghost Elephants
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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Ghost Elephants ... is a film about a search, not a hunt, and a mystery, not an answer. That makes it compelling as both a scientific endeavor and a philosophical one.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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2/4
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For Worse
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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For Worse ... takes an intriguing, engaging character and crams her into the pigeonhole of a clichéd archetype and narrative.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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2/4
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Dreams
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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The little characterization Fernando does receive also makes that shift in the last stretch of Dreams even tougher to accept.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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3/4
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The Bluff
(2026)
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Mark Dujsik
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The Bluff feels charmingly old-fashioned, with its swashbuckling action, yet distinctly modern, with its bloody and occasionally grisly violence.
Posted Feb 25, 2026
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1.5/4
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Psycho Killer
(2026)
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Mark Dujsik
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[O]ne wonders if screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker has penned a serial killer movie that's mostly meant to be taken as a joke.
Posted Feb 20, 2026
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1.5/4
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Midwinter Break
(2026)
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Mark Dujsik
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[D]irector Polly Findlay's feature debut ... isn't especially engaging.
Posted Feb 20, 2026
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3.5/4
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EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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[T]he film feels as if it is encompassing the entire spirit of what made Presley the kind of performer whose appeal still remains all these decades after his death.
Posted Feb 20, 2026
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1.5/4
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The Dreadful
(2026)
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Mark Dujsik
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The Dreadful is a bit too dull for the occasional excesses in which the movie indulges and too confounding for the very simple fable it's telling.
Posted Feb 20, 2026
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1/4
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Diabolic
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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Diabolic ... at least gets its dumbest idea out of the way almost immediately.
Posted Feb 20, 2026
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2/4
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This Is Not a Test
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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[T]he movie becomes a shallow piece of horror melodrama.
Posted Feb 19, 2026
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3/4
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Redux Redux
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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The ideas driving Redux Redux are front and center in the story here...
Posted Feb 19, 2026
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3/4
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Pillion
(2025)
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Mark Dujsik
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[Writer/director Harry] Lighton shows some real insight into the psychology of this relationship...
Posted Feb 19, 2026
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