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Candice McMillan

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Mercy (2026) 24% EDIT “By the film's conveniently twisty conclusion, any semblance of law and order is, ironically, stuck buffering as the denouement is comically divulged... In other words, this is a mercy kill.” – Seattle Refined Jan 29, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “A wondrous sequel that is far enough after the franchise’s barbaric start to have the luxury of self-reflection and esoteric rumination, but close enough to the release of its predecessor to swing fresh on the vines.” – Seattle Refined Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 78% EDIT “While it is torture to watch this helpless, enslaved creature succumb to his fate, the ways in which he exacts revenge and inflicts the maximum amount of terror are a beguiling journey that will have some viewers screeching for more.” – Seattle Refined Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie (2025) 85% EDIT “Parents are likely to be lulled to sleep, but Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie gives the target demographic exactly what they want: more of the same.” – Seattle's Child Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% EDIT “Zootopia 2 is just as charming and arguably funnier than its predecessor. ” – Seattle's Child Jan 29, 2026 Full Review The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) 80% EDIT “Great for kids who like the show; not-so-great for adults who enjoy nuance and intellectual stimulation.” – Seattle's Child Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 94% EDIT “Marty isn't just supreme; he's supremely chaotic, a joyous role for actor Timothée Chalamet, whose press tour for this film alone has proven his commitment to self-ascribed greatness. He could sell synergy to a corpse.” – Seattle Refined Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% EDIT “Avatar: Fire and Ash is a breathtaking epic, a superhuman feat of filmmaking, a full emotional, visual and visceral movie-going experience... and it will inevitably feel like a repeat of its 2022 older sibling.” – Seattle Refined Dec 25, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “The threads of [director Rian] Johnson's cinematic creations rely on massive ensemble talent-wrangling and character building, perfectly-coifed suspense and the sneaking snowball effect of masterful plot development.” – Seattle Refined Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% EDIT “Its intricate interweaving of characters and their relationships with one another never takes a hammy turn, preferring instead for the film's message to seep slowly through the calm and collected interactions, saying more with less. ” – Seattle Refined Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “[Jessie] Buckley is our dashing, daring, feral lead whose mercurial portrayal is as hypnotizing as it is gutting. ” – Seattle Refined Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% EDIT “[Wicked:] For Good is like the end of a sleepover: all the fun has already been had, and you're left to clean up the mess before you go.” – Seattle Refined Dec 8, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 63% EDIT “The Running Man is cheap and glossy... As a director who has tackled the gamut, from solemn action dramas to satire comedies, Wright lands The Running Man closer to Hot Fuzz than Baby Driver, but it is, against our better judgement, still terribly fun.” – Seattle Refined Nov 17, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% EDIT “They rip through synths and blow up ships, audaciously tear through foreign, antagonistic foes and give the first swashbuckling, riotous time I've ever experienced in a Predator movie.” – Seattle Refined Nov 17, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% EDIT “[Director Scott] Cooper aims and generally succeeds at characterizing Springsteen without glorifying any one action, song or person, riding his many lows to a high note, delivering a film that, like the Boss himself, isn't trying to sell you anything.” – Seattle Refined Oct 29, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% EDIT “While the film can be frustrating at times in its unrelenting philosophical positioning, there is more temptation to partake in the hunt than to peruse from the sidelines. ” – Seattle Refined Oct 23, 2025 Full Review TRON: Ares (2025) 53% EDIT “Like the leviathan did the small marionette, viewers are swallowed whole by the momentarily sensuous and overpowering storytelling, only to be spit back out into a fable of mortal failings with a soulless premise led by Leto's solidly wooden performance. ” – Seattle Refined Oct 23, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% EDIT “There may be dancing in the ring, but the rest of the film is clunky and slow, lacking rhythm and flow, bobbing along under the pretense that a "transformation" is enough to keep viewers hooked.” – Seattle Refined Oct 7, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's genre-defying, career-defining piece of classic cinema... One Battle After Another dances from start to finish, a triumph of storytelling. ” – Seattle Refined Sep 28, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 37% EDIT “Despite its overt attempts to convince viewers that it's a freewheeling adventure through time and space, the film feels unalterably stuck on a track, racing towards the tearful, uplifting ending one would expect from a title so blatantly optimistic.” – Seattle Refined Sep 28, 2025 Full Review The Long Walk (2025) 88% EDIT “There are graphic sequences, as well, but the real terror lies in the unknown of what is ahead. Don't be completely fooled by the character study at the story's center. It's a long walk, and there is plenty of road with which to strangle each other.” – Seattle Refined Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Twinless (2025) 97% EDIT “Few dark comedies find the tricky equilibrium required to both engage and revolt audiences, but Twinless nails the balance with subtle, though no less cringy, fury. ” – Seattle Refined Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Caught Stealing (2025) 85% EDIT “This is a Butler star-vehicle, and man, can he drive the car... Like Aronofsky's past redemption stories, Hank's turns into a runaway train: loose, careless and fatal. ” – KOMO News (Seattle) Sep 4, 2025 Full Review Nobody 2 (2025) 76% EDIT “Another [limitation] be the unnecessariness of a sequel at all, but we're here now, and if you have a hankering for an encore of what "Nobody" delivered, then Hutch, at the very least, is here to spin island time into violent time.” – KOMO News (Seattle) Aug 22, 2025 Full Review Freakier Friday (2025) 73% EDIT “Freakier is a cheap shot in the same spot, done louder though not better. As the body switch gains momentum, it requires almost too much energy to keep up. The action is frantic and frenzied. The performances are whatever is the opposite of nuanced.” – KOMO News (Seattle) Aug 9, 2025 Full Review
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