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7.5/10
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The Accountant 2
(2025)
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Dominic Griffin
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O'Connor himself has referred to it as "Rain Man" on steroids, and he's not entirely wrong. It's at once a fun and crowd-pleasing picture in that classic's vein as well as an extrapolation of what worked so well in the last outing.
Posted Apr 24, 2025
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7.5/10
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Sinners
(2025)
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Dominic Griffin
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The film is a gargantuan undertaking and its heights will reverberate through pop culture for the foreseeable future. But some of its bigger swings don't quite connect and suggest that it is possible for a movie to try to be too many things at once.
Posted Apr 15, 2025
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6/10
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Warfare
(2025)
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Reuben Baron
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Art made for a target audience of one person still has value, and while I am decidedly not even close to that target audience, I have to respect it.
Posted Apr 09, 2025
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7/10
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On Swift Horses
(2024)
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Reuben Baron
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On Swift Horses plays like a hybrid of Luca Guadagnino's two 2024 films: the complex relationships and game-playing of Challengers meets the period setting (including a trip to Mexico) and quiet loneliness of Queer.
Posted Apr 01, 2025
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6/10
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A Working Man
(2025)
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Dominic Griffin
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...may have reached a new low in seeing how boilerplate a premise can be while still leading to a satisfying moviegoing experience.
Posted Mar 28, 2025
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8/10
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You're Cordially Invited
(2025)
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Cynthia Vinney
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There are a lot of funny bits that will have you laughing, even if you're folding laundry or paying attention to a second screen as you let this unspool.
Posted Mar 19, 2025
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6/10
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Disney's Snow White
(2025)
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Cynthia Vinney
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At least half this film — especially the clash between the Evil Queen and Snow White — is enjoyable enough.
Posted Mar 19, 2025
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6.5/10
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Death of a Unicorn
(2025)
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Reuben Baron
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Not a great movie, but "horror-comedy where unicorns kill rich people" is the sort of high concept that guarantees some level of entertainment, and excellent casting helps compensate for its weaknesses on the screenplay level.
Posted Mar 13, 2025
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8.5/10
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Black Bag
(2025)
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Dominic Griffin
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It's a sharp, sexy, and intoxicating drama that has more in common with Patrick Marber's play "Closer" than with most spook stories. And did we mention it's only 93 minutes?
Posted Mar 11, 2025
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1/10
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The Electric State
(2025)
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Alistair Ryder
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Everything from the character designs to the story beats feel like the results of ChatGPT prompts the siblings hastily made on the way to set each day.
Posted Mar 07, 2025
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5/10
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Last Breath
(2025)
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Alistair Ryder
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Adapting his own hit Netflix documentary of the same name from 2019, director Alex Parkinson offers some fittingly intense genre thrills without ever fully justifying why he needed to return to this deep-sea nightmare.
Posted Feb 27, 2025
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9/10
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The Monkey
(2025)
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Matthew Jackson
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"The Monkey" is a deranged face-melter, just waiting for throngs of horror fans to bask in its madness.
Posted Feb 18, 2025
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6/10
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Mickey 17
(2025)
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Alistair Ryder
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If you felt that "Starship Troopers" played it too straight as a satire and needed more characters directly explaining to the audience that they were parodying fascism, then "Mickey 17" is for you.
Posted Feb 16, 2025
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7/10
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Captain America: Brave New World
(2025)
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Dominic Griffin
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Plays like a rhyming piece with the Russo brothers' work on "Winter Soldier." But for anyone hoping for more than secondhand nostalgia — a 2025 film homaging a 2014 film homaging a broad simulacrum of the 1970s — "Brave New World" will likely disappoint.
Posted Feb 12, 2025
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7/10
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
(2025)
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Alistair Ryder
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In its fourth — and by far, best — outing, the "Bridget Jones" series manages to thread the needle between escapist romantic fantasy and earnest exploration of the realities of the life that follows what should have been a happily ever after.
Posted Feb 12, 2025
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3/10
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Star Trek: Section 31
(2025)
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Audrey Fox
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The plot goes nowhere yet somehow takes forever to get there, and the cast of characters that we're clearly supposed to find endearing are so thinly written they could be blown over by a stiff breeze.
Posted Feb 03, 2025
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7/10
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The Thing with Feathers
(2025)
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Audrey Fox
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With an all-in performance from Benedict Cumberbatch and a unique visual style, The Thing With Feathers is an inescapably compelling drama — even if its concept is perhaps a bit more interesting than its execution.
Posted Feb 03, 2025
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6/10
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Wolf Man
(2025)
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Reuben Baron
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It gets a passing grade because it succeeds at being scary, and it's paced well enough that its slowness heightens the fear without turning to boredom. But it's disappointing that it can't achieve more, the way The Invisible Man did.
Posted Jan 15, 2025
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7/10
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Sonic the Hedgehog 3
(2024)
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Cynthia Vinney
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Almost everyone in the cast of "Sonic the Hedgehog 3" is great at banter, but the star has to be Jim Carrey.
Posted Dec 18, 2024
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6/10
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Mufasa: The Lion King
(2024)
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Alistair Ryder
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I would have much preferred an original work from Jenkins, but even when making something that feels anonymous next to his earlier films, it has far more personality than most of Disney's recent live-action output.
Posted Dec 17, 2024
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7/10
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A Complete Unknown
(2024)
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Audrey Fox
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The star of this show is Timothée Chalamet -- his on-stage performances as Dylan are electric, and he imbues classic 1960s folk songs with a freshness and urgency that makes them feel as though they were written yesterday.
Posted Dec 11, 2024
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7/10
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
(2024)
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Reuben Baron
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There was no chance of The War of the Rohirrim recapturing the magic of the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings trilogy. But Hèra's defiance in the face of the despair her enemies want her to feel has something of the trilogy's inspirational quality.
Posted Dec 09, 2024
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10/10
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Nosferatu
(2024)
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Matthew Jackson
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"Nosferatu" is a beautifully crafted, endlessly compelling nightmare that will envelop you in its shifting, writhing darkness and simply refuse to let go.
Posted Dec 07, 2024
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7/10
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Gladiator II
(2024)
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Audrey Fox
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If it doesn't quite match the staggering highs of Crowe's biggest movie star moments in the original, it comes pretty close.
Posted Dec 03, 2024
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4/10
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Moana 2
(2024)
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Alistair Ryder
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Whereas parents and kids alike will have been charmed by the first, Moana 2 will be overshadowed for anybody other than the youngest kids watching. It will likely make a billion dollars regardless.
Posted Nov 26, 2024
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5.5/10
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Red One
(2024)
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Dominic Griffin
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There's a tender, wholesome story buried underneath all the unoriginal repetition, and it could have been a welcome balm for audiences living in murky times.
Posted Nov 13, 2024
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7.5/10
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Juror #2
(2024)
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Dominic Griffin
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A comforting reminder of Eastwood's sturdy film craft and his lighter touch behind the camera. But some minor nagging issues hold it back from being something truly memorable, the sort of picture that would thrive in reruns on TNT.
Posted Oct 30, 2024
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7/10
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Venom: The Last Dance
(2024)
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Dominic Griffin
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"Venom: The Last Dance" is the closing chapter of an unlikely trilogy, a springboard for further IP mining, and a touching send-off to the hero some of us didn't even want but will now surely miss.
Posted Oct 23, 2024
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7/10
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Smile 2
(2024)
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Alistair Ryder
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If "Smile 2" feels just as good as the first in the moment, then it's entirely thanks to Scott, who helps anchor a story that could crack under the weight of its endless twist reveals.
Posted Oct 16, 2024
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6/10
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Terrifier 3
(2024)
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Alistair Ryder
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It's still rare for a horror film to be longer than two hours, but it's especially rare for a horror film of that length to feel rushed.
Posted Oct 07, 2024
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8/10
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The Life of Chuck
(2024)
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Audrey Fox
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Nothing less than the cinematic equivalent of a giant bear hug.
Posted Oct 04, 2024
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7/10
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We Live in Time
(2024)
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Audrey Fox
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Is this destined to become one of the great British weepies of the decade? Well, probably not. But Garfield and Pugh together are an unbeatable duo, and their skills combine to elevate "We Live in Time" well above a generic romantic drama.
Posted Oct 04, 2024
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2/10
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Joker: Folie à Deux
(2024)
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Audrey Fox
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Even fans of "Joker" are unlikely to find much to redeem this chaotic, profoundly stupid mess.
Posted Oct 04, 2024
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8/10
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Saturday Night
(2024)
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Audrey Fox
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Even if the plot is fairly thin on the ground, "Saturday Night" is well-paced and thoroughly entertaining as it documents the birth of a comedy classic.
Posted Oct 04, 2024
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8.5/10
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Heretic
(2024)
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Reuben Baron
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A sinfully sweet success.
Posted Sep 17, 2024
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6.5/10
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The Return
(2024)
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Reuben Baron
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The power of Fiennes' and Binoche's performances, as well as the strength of the classic tale itself, allow The Return to build into something both entertaining and meaningful in its final act.
Posted Sep 13, 2024
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6/10
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Transformers One
(2024)
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Alistair Ryder
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The movie is unapologetically aimed at the children who have become an odd afterthought for this cinematic series so far and succeeds the most when not burdening itself with attempts to simultaneously satisfy the older fans.
Posted Sep 12, 2024
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7.5/10
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Speak No Evil
(2024)
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Dominic Griffin
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The humor and tension are plenty filling on their own, keeping the mind busy until the proceedings devolve into the requisite carnage American audiences will be salivating for.
Posted Sep 11, 2024
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6/10
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Eden
(2024)
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Reuben Baron
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It's an entertaining enough way to pass two hours, but it's also not a film I expect people will be thinking about long after they see it.
Posted Sep 10, 2024
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7/10
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Nightbitch
(2024)
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Reuben Baron
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Adams' great performance aside, Nightbitch is just a good but not great movie — and oddly enough, its biggest obstacle to greatness might be that it's not quite weird enough.
Posted Sep 09, 2024
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5/10
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The End
(2024)
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Reuben Baron
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This could have been a masterpiece, but it's ultimately a swing and a miss.
Posted Sep 09, 2024
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7/10
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Babygirl
(2024)
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Audrey Fox
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With ballsy performances from Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson, Babygirl blends eroticism with sexual empowerment in a way that might not be for everyone, but will certainly find an audience that appreciates it.
Posted Sep 02, 2024
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5/10
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Wolfs
(2024)
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Audrey Fox
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Wolfs is blatantly obvious, with no surprises or twists you can't see coming a mile away, but sometimes you want the dull comfort of a movie that's so thoroughly committed to doing absolutely nothing.
Posted Sep 02, 2024
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10/10
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The Brutalist
(2024)
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Audrey Fox
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Brady Corbet builds his own twisted version of Americana as seen through a scary funhouse mirror.
Posted Sep 02, 2024
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7/10
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Maria
(2024)
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Audrey Fox
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The film as a whole may be too sedate and ploddingly paced for some, but it's impossible to deny the raw emotional power of Jolie in the lead role.
Posted Aug 31, 2024
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6/10
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
(2024)
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Audrey Fox
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Strangely, the franchise's two most popular characters — Lydia (Winona Ryder) and Beetlejuice himself (Michael Keaton) — are given little to work with.
Posted Aug 31, 2024
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3/10
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The Crow
(2024)
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Reuben Baron
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No edgy teenager is gonna think this movie is cool, no old-school fan is gonna get happy nostalgia from it, and nobody else is ever gonna buy a ticket.
Posted Aug 24, 2024
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7/10
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Blink Twice
(2024)
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Alistair Ryder
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It will likely prove divisive, but "Blink Twice" mostly succeeds due to its scathing nature, taking off the kid gloves that most recent eat-the-rich films have tackled the 1% with.
Posted Aug 17, 2024
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8/10
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Alien: Romulus
(2024)
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Matthew Jackson
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It's the most purely frightening "Alien" movie in nearly 40 years, a vision of what the franchise can achieve when in the right hands, and hopefully a stepping stone to even more stories in the universe.
Posted Aug 14, 2024
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2/10
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Harold and the Purple Crayon
(2024)
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Audrey Fox
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It's almost impressive that a movie all about the power of imagination could be so creatively bankrupt and incurious about the world, but this misguided kids' film manages to be all that and so much more (or less, depending on your perspective).
Posted Aug 09, 2024
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