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Brandon Yu

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Clika (2026) 10% EDIT “What [Clika] glaringly sheds in its performances and direction is some of the sturdiness of a more traditional Hollywood production. But that also matters less in a movie like this, one clearly made, with love and belief, by and for the people it centers.” – New York Times Jan 22, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 79% EDIT “These are all the ingredients for a gritty cop drama about a spiderweb of paranoia, but it plays out as a work that started with a seemingly clever climax in mind, then jury-rigged itself backward to fill in the rest.” – New York Times Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 78% EDIT “It’s a B-movie with a budget, but surrendering yourself to its cheap thrills with the right crowd can make wincing its own kind of fun.” – New York Times Jan 10, 2026 Full Review The Mother and the Bear (2024) 90% EDIT “The film, directed by Johnny Ma, bears a bit of charm, but a lot more bland earnestness. It treads ultimately familiar ground around immigrant dissonances between parent and child and the struggle to express love and acceptance. ” – New York Times Jan 2, 2026 Full Review The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) 80% EDIT “No, this is a movie that is bad on its own terms, mainly for its cynical philosophy of children’s entertainment. ” – New York Times Dec 18, 2025 Full Review 100 Nights of Hero (2025) 69% EDIT “Still, there’s just enough style and slyness to momentarily whisk one away.” – New York Times Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% EDIT “It makes for a work that’s more expansive and action-packed, if also a bit bloated.” – New York Times Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) 95% EDIT “In “Road to Revenge,” a kind of slapstick Rambo movie in which this plane stunt is maybe the fourth most insane thing to happen, a barrage of blood-spattered inanity eventually becomes a delirium of popcorn pleasure.” – New York Times Nov 20, 2025 Full Review The Carpenter's Son (2025) 31% EDIT “It’s that tedious tension that the horror film “The Carpenter’s Son” can’t shake off. ” – New York Times Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) 98% EDIT “It’s hard not to be charmed by its warm existentialism (in a children’s film, no less) and its belief that the greatest wisdoms can be found in the way a child sees and learns.” – New York Times Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Queens of the Dead (2025) 83% EDIT “It’s all meant to be viewed through the lens of camp, that increasingly diluted and all-too-broad category that here feels more like an excuse for the film’s flat construction than an aesthetic approach. ” – New York Times Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Black Phone 2 (2025) 72% EDIT “While the sequel realizes the need to connect the rest of its ghostly parts, it becomes overlong in spots, bogged down by stiff explication. Instead, the movie’s engine is mostly in its new scares. ” – New York Times Oct 16, 2025 Full Review All of You (2024) 71% EDIT “All of You is a weepy, sweeping love story that knows full well that it’s trying to be one. But it never succumbs to cheap execution, and all of that comes down to Goldstein and Poots. ” – New York Times Sep 25, 2025 Full Review The Senior (2023) 79% EDIT “You can simply surrender yourself to the bland moral lessons of the movie, but even then, it’s hard not to feel like this was best left as a quirky human interest segment on a slow news day.” – New York Times Sep 19, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 37% EDIT “You would think that for a movie with such a title there’d be a bit more big lights and conventional grandiosity, but there’s a formal limpness to the way it tugs at one’s heartstrings.” – New York Times Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Rabbit Trap (2025) 47% EDIT “There’s so little substance underlying the suspense that when you finally get your “aha” answers, you’re left wondering why you came into the woods in the first place.” – New York Times Sep 11, 2025 Full Review The Toxic Avenger (2023) 87% EDIT “The new revival of the same name has a far more assured hold on its sensibility, offering a modernized gonzo spoof that is a bit bloodier, a bit funnier and far more confident in its silliness. ” – New York Times Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Pools (2025) 78% EDIT “Rather than considering where or if there’s a heart to this specific film, Hayes seems more preoccupied with capturing the vague vibe of a certain kind of indie teen movie, one in which life gets real, but there’s nothing like being young, wild and free.” – New York Times Aug 21, 2025 Full Review Fixed (2025) 56% EDIT “Tartakovsky has nicely captured the warm nostalgia of a bygone generation of cartoons in the movie’s animation, and seeing it sullied with this kind of lewd mischief is briefly fun.” – New York Times Aug 13, 2025 Full Review It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley (2025) 98% EDIT “The most striking, heart-rending moment comes at the end, when Buckley’s mother plays his last voice mail to her, expressing his admiration of her strength as a woman bringing a child into the world. It’s a wondrous act of seeing...” – New York Times Aug 7, 2025 Full Review My Oxford Year (2025) 29% EDIT “Instead of a rote enemies to lovers story, it becomes a limp attempt at being this generation’s About Time.” – New York Times Aug 1, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% EDIT “These are the first steps for a refreshingly new direction for Marvel, even if they’re imperfect ones.” – New York Times Jul 24, 2025 Full Review Cloud (2024) 93% EDIT “For all of his genre-bending on display, Kurosawa is interested in something more real and more dark about humanity’s capacity for greed and bitterness, and the quiet ways that the internet can further mutate those diseases in us.” – New York Times Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Sovereign (2025) 95% EDIT “In other words, one can immediately recognize Jerry Kane (a remarkable Nick Offerman), even if they are not familiar with the true events his story is based on.” – New York Times Jul 10, 2025 Full Review The Old Guard 2 (2025) 27% EDIT “The film, directed by Victoria Mahoney, is a sure-footed romp that tightens the screws, most immediately by flexing a bigger cast and broadening the lore of the original comic book series.” – New York Times Jul 2, 2025 Full Review
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