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Matt Lynch

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The Rip (2026) 79% EDIT “Ludicrous and more than a little confusing, but... there’s mercifully little to complain about here. Your dad will love this, and you’ll have an okay time, too.” – In Review Online Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 24% EDIT “Mercy is complete junk, there’s no way around it, but if you tune into the very specific wavelength and have a tolerance for wholesale idiocy, there’s at least a genuine experience to be had.” – In Review Online Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% EDIT “While Song Sung Blue might still hit a lot of the expected melodramatic notes, the distinct weirdness of the true story and Brewer’s genuine empathy for these human beings make this project a richer than anticipated experience.” – In Review Online Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% EDIT “With all its overstuffed-ness, occasional loose ends, and its massive scale, [Cameron has] given his franchise its Return of the Jedi, for better and (very, very occasionally) worse. ” – In Review Online Dec 20, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 63% EDIT “The execution isn’t incompetent by any margin, but everything feels undeniably sanded down... Ultimately, The Running Man is a 130-minute pulled punch.” – In Review Online Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% EDIT “Badlands gets pretty close to completely demystifying a character(s) that has endured for decades... [but] the vision here is so novel compared to the rest of the franchise’s films that it’s hard to care too much.” – In Review Online Nov 7, 2025 Full Review The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (2025) 42% EDIT “Recodes the original’s feminine ambivalence and unites its two battling forces... [then] proceeds to do absolutely nothing with that idea, teasing it out as a meaningless mystery before returning to the perfunctory violence of a more routine thriller.” – In Review Online Oct 24, 2025 Full Review TRON: Ares (2025) 53% EDIT “TRON: Ares, maybe the recent pinnacle of nobody-asked-for-this IP regurgitation... [is] relatively the best one in the series. ” – In Review Online Oct 13, 2025 Full Review The Long Walk (2025) 88% EDIT “Ceases to be shocking or tragic almost immediately... like most bleak and depressingly timely films, The Long Walk also lands as a massive so what.” – In Review Online Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Red Sonja (2025) 56% EDIT “Something grander and a little more slyly humorous is what was needed to really sell the sum here, and that’s exactly what the 2025 Red Sonja is missing.” – In Review Online Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Nobody 2 (2025) 76% EDIT “Nobody 2 somehow manages to feel perfunctory rather than rambunctious. One of the best action filmmakers of his generation should not have to be slumming it with weak sauce like this.” – In Review Online Aug 16, 2025 Full Review Mother of Flies (2025) 94% EDIT “[The Adams family] tend to be more thoughtful... than what usually hits the festival circuit... Mother of Flies, is no exception, though the crew may be getting to the point where it’s time to expand their horizons into something more elaborate.” – In Review Online Aug 12, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% EDIT “First Steps can’t help but still largely feel like more of the same, even if this installment tastes a bit better than the last few bowls of slop Marvel has served.” – In Review Online Jul 25, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% EDIT “The guy who... [made] audiences fall in love with a talking space raccoon has managed to get closer than literally anyone else in almost 50 years to making Superman work.” – In Review Online Jul 10, 2025 Full Review Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) 50% EDIT “Despite [the] visual delights... it all just feels completely perfunctory. Even the characters in the film lament that the world doesn’t care about dinosaurs anymore. Rebirth makes a strong case that this franchise doesn’t either.” – In Review Online Jul 7, 2025 Full Review F1 The Movie (2025) 82% EDIT “A thrilling game of auto pinball... [and a] well-designed machine doing exactly what’s it’s meant to do.” – In Review Online Jun 25, 2025 Full Review The Surfer (2024) 84% EDIT “[Brings] to mind the nightmarish acid trips of great Ozploitation classics... and while those are richer texts to be sure, they are instructive as to the simmering, supernatural-feeling, and spooky texture viewers will ultimately find in The Surfer.” – In Review Online Jun 6, 2025 Full Review Ballerina (2025) 75% EDIT “Given the success rate for these kinds of IP extenders, the fact that Ballerina is decent at all is a surprise. But that at its not-infrequent best it’s good enough to stand up to the rest of the series, well that’s a downright miracle.” – In Review Online Jun 6, 2025 Full Review Fountain of Youth (2025) 35% EDIT “There is just enough here and just enough absent to say that Ritchie remains capable of delivering easily digestible trifles, and the final result is a film that is monumentally... fine.” – In Review Online May 27, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% EDIT “[An] absurd, absolutely thrilling movie... you’re in for one of the wilder pieces of modern pop entertainment of the last few years.” – In Review Online May 14, 2025 Full Review Havoc (2025) 64% EDIT “Havoc is actually served by featuring a narrative that is so often muddled; everything extraneous falls by the wayside, and viewers can simply sit back and enjoy Evans’ latest wild, brutal ride.” – In Review Online May 3, 2025 Full Review Thunderbolts* (2025) 88% EDIT “Thunderbolts* is just more assembly line junk.” – In Review Online May 2, 2025 Full Review The Accountant 2 (2025) 75% EDIT “It’s solid stuff, sold well, and in the end, it helps this whole hokey affair become an unexpectedly amusing experience.” – In Review Online Apr 26, 2025 Full Review Warfare (2025) 92% EDIT “Warfare is less a brutal, baffling ordeal of violence and metal, and more an experiential IV drip, strapping viewers right into position and along for the visceral ride.” – In Review Online Apr 11, 2025 Full Review Ash (2025) 71% EDIT “Yet for all its overtures to “vibes” and putting “cool [stuff]” on screen, there’s very little visual or narrative flow to Ash. It has the outer shape of something fun, but all the parts inside are assembled incorrectly.” – In Review Online Apr 4, 2025 Full Review
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