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Frank Swietek

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Shelter (2026) 62% C EDIT “A step up from Statham’s recent solo vehicles, but it’s still just a routine actioner whose predictable beats aren’t sufficiently offset by the interesting locations. ” – One Guy's Opinion Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% B EDIT “Sam Raimi returns to his gonzo, blood-drenched roots with this horror comedy...which twists a premise that might have served for a bland romantic comedy into something ghoulishly funny.” – One Guy's Opinion Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% B EDIT “An engaging recreation of a truly strange episode in American criminal and broadcast history...though it’s a bit anonymous from the perspective of [Van Sant's] best work, it’s still mightily enjoyable. ” – One Guy's Opinion Jan 28, 2026 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 95% B+ EDIT “A harrowing recreation of an episode that encapsulates the horror that the Israeli reaction to Hamas’ brutal attacks of October 7 unleashed on the population of Gaza...the visceral power... is undeniable. ” – One Guy's Opinion Jan 28, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 88% C+ EDIT “Stunning, but one can be stunned into either admiration or stupefaction.... But love it or hate it, you’ll probably be fascinated by its self-indulgent eccentricity. ” – One Guy's Opinion Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Magellan (2025) 85% C EDIT “The sort of film that’s easier to respect as an expression of a directorial point of view than respond to as a satisfying historical drama...the static mise-en-scène and turgid pacing can be positively suffocating. ” – One Guy's Opinion Jan 26, 2026 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 98% B+ EDIT “Raw and passionate filmmaking, accomplished under conditions those of us in what purports still to be a democracy can barely understand.” – One Guy's Opinion Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 24% D EDIT “The pacing...is relentless—understandable given the need to obscure the utter implausibility of the plot...By riding roughshod over the logical absurdities Bekmambetov and his troika of editors aim to divert viewers from realizing how ridiculous [it] is. ” – One Guy's Opinion Jan 22, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% C EDIT “A handsome but misguided misfire, a comic thriller that works as neither....It’s debatable whether [it] will make you laugh or simply squirm in discomfort. ” – One Guy's Opinion Jan 20, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 79% C- EDIT “Except for a stellar but indifferently used cast, Joe Carnahan’s movie is a totally undistinguished specimen of a tired genre.” – One Guy's Opinion Jan 19, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% B+ EDIT “A franchise that, in this reboot phase, has actually improved substantially over the original two installments. 'The Bone Temple' is so satisfying that it makes one look forward to another helping in the series.” – One Guy's Opinion Jan 15, 2026 Full Review The Choral (2025) 67% B EDIT “An elegiac tribute to the transcendent power of music in the most terrible of times...Bennett’s facility in amusing dialogue and Hytner’s skill with his cast make the film both charming and poignant. ” – One Guy's Opinion Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Rosemead (2025) 89% B- EDIT “[An] unfussy but affecting drama...bolstered by strong performances from newcomer Shou and particularly Liu.” – One Guy's Opinion Jan 9, 2026 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% B EDIT “There have been many films about bullying, but few have gotten quite so far under the skin as this dark fantasy about the cruelty perpetrated by adolescent boys at a sports camp.” – One Guy's Opinion Jan 7, 2026 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 87% B- EDIT “A contemplative reflection on the relationship between the "undead" and those who have survived the catastrophe that created them...a mournful take on troubled survival rather than a scare-fest. ” – One Guy's Opinion Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% B+ EDIT “Material that could be dismissed in other hands as soap operatic...because of Trier’s lucid writing and probing direction, and the collaboration of an exceptional cast,...becomes a remarkably moving experience.” – One Guy's Opinion Jan 1, 2026 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% C+ EDIT “Sweet but rather sappy... The initial chapters are amusing, if lightweight, and...rather touching. But in the last half hour the assault on the tear ducts grows overwrought, and the film becomes cloying and maudlin. ” – One Guy's Opinion Jan 1, 2026 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% B+ EDIT “Always compelling, sometimes diverting and genuinely surprising,,..Mendonça’s film makes a striking, if very different, complement to Walter Salles’ 'I’m Still Here,' also set in the days of the Brazilian military dictatorship.” – One Guy's Opinion Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% C EDIT “While the zest Jackman and Hudson bring to [Diamond's] songs is infectious...the beats and plot turns are so contrived and melodramatic that the picture strains credulity from start to finish.” – One Guy's Opinion Dec 25, 2025 Full Review Anaconda (2025) 48% D EDIT “This intended comedy has fewer laughs than the "serious" horror movie it’s supposedly spoofing...It’s obvious what Anaconda' was aiming for—a main dish of comic zaniness with a side order of scares. But it’s likely to produce only heartburn.” – One Guy's Opinion Dec 25, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 94% B EDIT “At two-and-a-half hours, 'Marty Supreme' can feel overstuffed, too much of a good thing; but even a compromised ending can’t diminish Chalamet’s ever-compelling star turn. ” – One Guy's Opinion Dec 24, 2025 Full Review David (2025) 77% C EDIT “Goes overboard in trying to make the Biblical story of David and Saul exciting and fun for youngsters...with its generalized boys’ adventure plotting and merely serviceable production quality...seems more suited to Sunday school classes than theatres. ” – One Guy's Opinion Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% C EDIT “Credit Cooper with straining to dramatize how difficult it is to keep a marriage together over time, but his effort, while clearly dedicated, doesn’t quite come off.” – One Guy's Opinion Dec 18, 2025 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% C+ EDIT “You have to be in the mood for some really over-the-top empowerment trash to enjoy this gonzo piece, but if you are, it should be your cup of sour tea.” – One Guy's Opinion Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% C EDIT “If they ever were, the visual attractions of the 'Avatar' series are no longer sufficient to justify a narrative so simple-minded, derivative and repetitive. ” – One Guy's Opinion Dec 18, 2025 Full Review
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