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Marlon Wallace

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Biography:

Marlon Wallace is a journalist and editor at WBOC-TV in Salisbury, Maryland. He has written reviews for the station since 2015. He's also an independent filmmaker, having made films on the Delmarva peninsula since 2021.

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Send Help (2026) 93% EDIT “It seems as if the film wanted to be The Blue Lagoon meets Misery (1990), except we skip over the part where the woman is a fan of the man and we land on her simply wanting to punish him. Yet, it's not really about her punishing him.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Feb 3, 2026 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 91% EDIT “She's been working for over 20 years and this is probably the best performance she's given. It's also the best film she's done that has put her in the lead.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Feb 3, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 79% EDIT “With all the talk about corrupt cops, we do get the impression that he [Ben Affleck] might not be one of them, but the film never expands upon JD [Ben Affleck] to give us more depth or insight into him.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Jan 28, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “It's rare for a zombie flick to give the perspective of the zombie. DaCosta provides glimpses of Samson's perspective and of his memories, but, again, it's not nearly enough.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Blood & Ice (2025) EDIT “If Silvia's film is notable in any way, it's that he puts women in the forefront of this gangster story. Female gangsters aren't usually in the lead, but Silvia features bad-ass women in prominent positions.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Greenland 2: Migration (2026) 51% EDIT “Even though I don't think that this film is really comparable in terms of quality, Waugh's sequel did remind me of Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men (2006), which will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Safe House (2025) EDIT “I will never complain about seeing [Lewis] Tan in action and perform fight choreography because he will always impress. It's just unfortunate that everyone else gets short-changed on that action, particularly [Lucien] Laviscount.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Perfect Neighbor (2025) 99% EDIT “...the argument has to be made that the killer has some kind of racial bias. Sometimes, if not most times, that bias or racism can be difficult to prove. With this film, it's actually easy to prove. ” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Souleymane's Story (2024) 100% EDIT “Sangare's performance here is probably my favorite male performance of the past year. His acting prizes are all well deserved. Some may argue that he wasn't really acting, as Sangare's personal life mirrors his character's in a lot of ways.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Heads of State (2025) 68% EDIT “From a plane sequence, to several shoot-outs, to a helicopter sequence involving a bank vault, to an epic car chase through the streets of Italy... this film has really fun and entertaining action sequences that are worth watching.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Jan 1, 2026 Full Review G20 (2025) 55% EDIT “...not too much as to overshadow Danielle because at the end of the day this is Viola Davis' vehicle. Yet, overshadowing her is exactly what this film does for the initial action scenes.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Jan 1, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 94% EDIT “The ultimate point here is the lengths a person will go to pursue a dream... The extreme measures that Marty employs to be in this year's tournament don't ever really feel justified. He seems to be impulsive and operating without much of a plan.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% EDIT “...it feels as though most of this is meant to be a metaphor or a dark satire... That commentary is meant to highlight what humans are doing to the planet. It's also meant to be a precursor for what humans are doing to themselves.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% EDIT “The ending of this film essentially leaves the characters in the same place where they were at the end of that 2022 flick. We didn't learn anything new and we didn't go anywhere new, so it felt like Cameron really was just spinning his wheels.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Dec 23, 2025 Full Review On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024) 100% EDIT “It's also about how difficult it is for a woman or anyone to dissent or try to push back. It's reminiscent of a recent Oscar nominee in Best Documentary Feature, To Kill a Tiger (2023), which had an arguably happier ending than this one.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “The ending is about the power of theater to reckon with difficult things, but it's not about reckoning with William's decision to leave. It's reckoning with another tragedy. That tragedy sucks up all the oxygen in the room.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% EDIT “What DaCosta does here is equivalent to what Greta Gerwig did for her adaptation, Little Women (2019), only DaCosta's film is dealing with darker elements..., in terms of giving an old work a fresh and modern take, DaCosta is in the same park as Gerwig.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Sorry, Baby (2025) 97% EDIT “In some instances, it might be considered slow. Victor seems to be pushing the audience to sit in these moments and absorb them, and absorb the impact. I wouldn't say it's boring or the pacing is selfsame. The film moves along in a resolute way.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “There's this idea that Benoit who is an atheist is going to have his beliefs challenged and perhaps be put into a position where he has to consider the existence of God or the reality of miracles. I'm not sure that this angle is as well fleshed out.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Dec 16, 2025 Full Review In Your Dreams (2025) 86% EDIT “I haven't seen every animated film in 2025, but this one stands out as one of the best. Current predictions have this film not getting nominated at the 98th Academy Awards, but in my estimation it should.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% EDIT “Instead of looking forward and examining what it takes to succeed and achieve fame, it's about looking backward and examining if what it took to succeed and achieve fame was worth it and what the cost or toll was.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% EDIT “Bentley's film is more about somberness, stillness and silence... It's about grief and how dealing with that grief using stillness and silence can be powerful, but in this context, I'm not sure it's totally effective.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% EDIT “Given that Judy is a rabbit, the dynamic is less buddy cop and more "bunny cop." There's enough comedy and car chases to entertain and pull any audience member along for the ride.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% EDIT “It feels like a soap bubble bursting in that it doesn't have much of an impact. This sequel is very much a letdown... the 2024 flick is still far better than this, which feels like a denouement that was mostly unnecessary.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Nov 24, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “The opening of the film is this great spectacle and truly exciting grabber at the edges of the North Pole. Yet, the ending went out with a whimper instead of a bang.” – The M Report (WBOC.com) Nov 24, 2025 Full Review
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